Bub

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I pick and choose my products very carefully.  That does not happen in a pre built box, no matter the name.

You need to take another look in to that ...

That's one of the #1 reasons to buy a pre built box from a place like HP or Dell. A lot of times the internal components are custom made to be compatible so they don't have issues.

If you buy a 'bundle' of parts from places like Newegg ... then yes, I agree ... there's absolutely no testing and you are taking your chances. But I wouldn't hesitate to buy an off the shelf box from HP or Dell, especially now days with processing power being what it is.

Actually, I would agree with Bub on this. I've got a Dell Inspiron 1520 from 5 years ago that till works flawlessly. It still has X1 in it..which works just as well a Reaper does ....

I'm getting a little uncomfortable talking about this to be honest

Meh, I was the one that brought up alternate DAWs so I'll take the heat but there shouldn't be any angst surrounding open discussions like this. We're big boys and can make our own decisions. Now if we were spamming the thread with Cockos links and spouting hyperbolic negativity toward Sonar... then yeah. That wouldn't be cool.

Like I said... anything I get would simply be to work in conjunction with Sonar. There is just too much good stuff in it to drop it completely. It wouldn't make sense.

Cheers. 

A couple of you have mentioned the inability to get a refund if we don't like the software we purchase. So I had to relay this story:

Yesterday (2/7/13) I was on a competing DAWs website reading about an upcoming patch (7.0.2) to their flagship product. One of the posters was complaining vehemently. The moderator asked them to send him a PM and he would work to get him a refund. That was truly an amazing thing to read.

Regards,

Paul P


JG : "Everything we do, no matter how deep our talent and skill-set, can be done better when people have the optimal amount of time to get it done right. A flower takes a specific amount of time to grow, a baby takes nine months to be born, these things cannot be rushed. We should emulate nature a bit more and follow the same advice with the things we create with our minds. Everyone will be happier, both seller and buyer. I'd rather see Cakewalk put out a new version every 2 or 3 years and do it well and right. There are software companies that don't try and release a new version every year and the end-user is probably better off because of it. "

The usual problem, and I don't know if it's Cakewalk's case but it probably is, is that those financing most companies today care more about the profit they'll make than how it will be generated. I long for the days whan an Amercian company was proud that their refrigerator lasted longer than anybody elses. Today's MBAs must think they were insane. What kind of business plan was that ! A customer buys one product and you never hear from him again.

I believe it's possible to build software like that if you structure it properly and spend more time designing it on paper than coding it. I wonder if the younger generation would care for a product that lasted forever. Might be kind of boring.

PS. as for the staff view, I don't see how they can promote something that doesn't work.

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