{"id":86,"date":"2009-07-27T11:59:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T16:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dollfactory.org\/?p=86"},"modified":"2009-07-28T15:32:55","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T20:32:55","slug":"its-not-obsolete-its-vintage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dollfactory.org\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"It’s not obsolete, it’s “vintage”…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cry<\/a>So in order to actually use<\/em> the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153new\u00e2\u20ac\u009d features in the Logic Studio and Final Cut Studio updates that Apple released late last week (which competing apps have had for years, and never mind that they only got to 8.02 on Logic with a metric *&%@$-load of bugs never addressed – thanks a lot<\/span> for a “final” .02 version over the course of two years<\/span>, without real bug fixes before moving on to the next full-number version, guys…) I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d have to shell out over four grand for a (used) new multi-Intel-core Mac Pro, another arm and a leg to replace UAD-1 cards with a UAD-2 since the new Mac Pros have a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153new improved\u00e2\u20ac\u009d kind of PCI slot, and then several hundreds of dollars for the actual updates themselves. \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yes, those \u00e2\u20ac\u0153flex time\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153drum replacement\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, and other handy editing features sure would have been useful, oh, starting two or three years ago, thanks (doing in a couple quick clicks what I now blow entire evenings doing), but for the effective \u00e2\u20ac\u0153gotta buy new hardware if you wanna use the new software\u00e2\u20ac\u009d price of admission, one could arguably buy a workable drum set, tape machine, editing block, and razor blades.<\/p>\n

Which, unlike all too many of our contemporaries, we actually do<\/span> know how to use. \u00c2\u00a0Then again, one reel of actual tape costs almost as much as the software update these days.<\/p>\n

I totally understand not wanting to continue development for PPC users in the “gotta keep payin’ if you wanna keep playin’ ” Great Apple Abandonware Tradition, and I was already resigned to sighing dramatically, staring wistfully out the window, and making an appointment with a therapist to help deal with the deep-seated shame, anguish and humiliation of not running the latest versions of Logic and Final Cut until a hefty chunk of change falls from the sky for a new \u00e2\u20ac\u0153studio computer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, but really<\/span>, Apple, did you have<\/span> to add injury to insult by having the most recent \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Software Update\u00e2\u20ac\u009d automatically break<\/span> stuff that was working just fine<\/span> before? <\/p>\n

Since the last “Software Update” did its thing, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t use Safari on the ol’ dual-2.7 G5 now (well, technically I can<\/em>, if I want to wait literally a couple hours for the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153beach ball\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to stop spinning as it grinds away – and manually downloading and reinstalling Safari, repairing permissions, and the rest of the usual rigamarole doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make any difference either), the MacBook Air is permanently set to Greenwich Mean Time no matter how many times we tell it that no, really, we want PST, and dad-in-law\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s MacBook Pro assures<\/em> us that the licenses for all of his purchased-at-the-Apple-Store-Apple-branded apps are now stolen or otherwise illegitimate. <\/p>\n

Now, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never been one of those pain-in-the-boohonkus “Cult of Mac” people who drive around with an Apple sticker on my car cruising for hapless Windows users to poke with sharp sticks (after moving from 16-track reel-to-reel and hardware sequencers, to computer slaved to SMPTE on the reel-to-reel, to fully-computer-based, our first CD was done in part in Cubase on Windows, and part in Cubase on Mac, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m more of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153personally, I prefer a Mac now, but whatever works for you is cool\u00e2\u20ac\u009d camp – and besides, it doesn’t suit my bleeding-heart-liberal side to make fun of the disadvantaged), and consider such behavior to make no more sense than it would to slap “My Other Dishwasher is Also a GE”, “Powered by Kitchen Aid”, “Make it a Subzero or Let It Rot”, “Spatulas by OXO”, and “My Cuisinart Shreds” stickers on the back window of one’s automobile, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still a bit disappointing that Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just \u00e2\u20ac\u0153less bad than the alternative<\/span>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in my mind, at least for this week.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It just works.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Except for when it actually doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So in order to actually use the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153new\u00e2\u20ac\u009d features in the Logic Studio and Final Cut Studio updates that Apple released late last week (which competing apps have had for years, and never mind that they only got to 8.02 on Logic with a metric *&%@$-load of bugs never addressed – thanks a lot for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dollfactory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dollfactory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dollfactory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dollfactory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dollfactory.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dollfactory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dollfactory.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dollfactory.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dollfactory.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}