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Do you know of anyone having tried Pulsar/Scope cards on the new MAC models?
If yes, what happened? Had success or just still troubles as in past?

what kind of trouble ???
it simply doesn't work
you may not have followed it close enough, as otherwise you would have noticed that Apple's developement policy of the last decade could have easily added another couple of insolvencies to any company in the size of the ex-CWA.

A product as complex as SFP is a MISSSION IMPOSSIBLE to steer through all that Apple paradigm-version-implementation change.
It took the $ multi billion Apple almost 5(!) years to get OSX to something usable.

the Mac point is pointless anyway, as there is no such thing as a Mac OS anymore
OSX is a BSD unix with a smart graphical wrapper - an extremely smart btw, and I usually like to take the opportunity to address the Linuxers '... look at Apple - there's your yardstick how 'user friendlyness' is implemented'

cheers, Tom

Polarity, the cards physically just don't fit in the PCI-e slots of the new macs...
therefor I use two macs, one with OS9 and CWA cards, and one with OSX and Cubase, with Midi and ADAT in between
Not ideal, but it works nice.

How about a Mac Book running Windows XP, with an express-card-to-PCI chassis from MAGMA? Anyone knows if this would work?

hubird wrote:Polarity, the cards physically just don't fit in the PCI-e slots of the new macs...

Ok thanks.
Didn't know that new Macs even don't have mormal PCI slot anymore.
I simply did never stand Mac, so...
Well, i won't suggest anymore my friend (who has passed to Mac) to recycle his Pulsar 2 into his new Mac.

wouldn't say so
it's still the only (consumer) DAW ready and relyable for media processing from start.
But you don't have to believe that

nonsense. when i build a consumer's DAW it's ready and reliable from the start.

yes, that's why gary is a guru, other guys populate the problem forum
Why is it always that you guys call a mac inflexible or un-updatable?
You can put into it what you need.
The forums are overloaded with discussions about motherboards, fans, IRQ settings, PSU power, case lengths, Windows version, etc. etc.
So everybody is looking for that one single super configuration, with every chance on a mistake on the table.

From my point of view it often looks quite pathetic, as it is already done for you, if you get yourself a mac.

The only f*cking thing is that Creamware never got OSX support ready, so my words are powerless alas.
The integration of quality hardware and a more than decent operating system (Linux yes, great!) isn't a 'plus', it's what a mac makes so reliable.

Apple is arrogant, yes, it's a shame that it left the classic PCI possibility.
But outside Creamware adepts noone cares...

O well, the old discussion...cheers.

for any purpose

well, sometimes I feel I have to state that a mac is not a weird, expensive, not-upgradable fashion thing, specially for those youngsters who are struggling with a pc configuration.
Those who know to handle pc find their way of course, but for the most of us this isn't dayly practice.
I can remember a shout-out by Nestor, exclamating 'how can I know my problem is a software or a hardware one'...
That's rather serious, isn't it?
And Nestor, systematic as he is, even explored the whole hardware side of pc, and even thén...
If anything is exchangable, where should one start to find the cause of a problem.
And if you have a good system running, what will happen if you change one element?
Or is Gary visiting S4L for fun?

Anyway, no need to start a topic about it, I just have to make my point every now and then