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Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 18, 2015 at 03:53 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
>That’s because I do a full factory reinstall on a fairly regular basis
>(every time Apple releases a major iOS upgrade, in fact). And every
>time, this has a huge (positive) impact on the iPad’s performance.
Bill, thanks for that tip. I’ll try that with the iPad Mini 2 before I spend any more money on it.
As for the environmental aspect that Alexander brought up, here is an interesting option for recycling old Windows machines:
“Turning a crappy old Windows PC into a full-fledged Chromebook with CloudReady”
Posted by MadaboutDana
Oct 19, 2015 at 04:37 PM
Sorry, I thought you were talking about an iPad 2 (big one). My Other iPad is a Mini 2, as it happens, and that runs very well indeed on iOS 9, even though I haven’t done a factory reset (yet; I’m thinking about it!). So I’d encourage you to brutalise your Mini and reset the thing. I think you’ll find it makes a big difference.
Cheers,
Bill
Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 19, 2015 at 05:10 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
>even though I haven’t done a factory reset (yet; I’m thinking about
>it!). So I’d encourage you to brutalise your Mini and reset the thing. I
>think you’ll find it makes a big difference.
Thanks, Bill - I did a factory reset last night, now I’m just waiting to see if the problem recurs (essentially it refused to start up, saying it had zero charge, but after multiple soft resets it showed it had 100% charge). Wiggling the connector sometimes would help. Still wasn’t sure if it was a hardware or software problem.
BTW, before doing the factory reset, I made a local backup in iTunes on the PC, did the factory reset, and then restored the local backup. I hope that was the correct procedure and that the restoration of the local backup didn’t negate the benefits of the factory reset…
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 20, 2015 at 05:13 AM
Continuing the anecdotal evidence, the following might be of interest. It comes from Hans Zimmer’s engineer assistant. Consider that these people have access to whatever kind of hardware/software one can imagine, including custom solutions.
“We’re mostly Windows-based now, which I think people often find surprising. All the samplers are Windows. The only Macs we really use are for running Pro Tools, and that’s more of a legacy thing. I think it’d be interesting to see if we could go to Windows for Pro Tools as well, because it gives you a bit more freedom in the kind of hardware you can use, especially since it’s sort of unknown what Apple’s long-term plans are for the Mac Pro. ”
Posted by Anthony
Oct 20, 2015 at 05:11 PM
Battles between Mac and Win supporters seem a bit more fuzzy nowadays. See here:
http://lifehacker.com/mac-vs-windows-your-best-arguments-486125257
Just two facts on Hardware and other two on Software:
- Parallels went public. The company does not only that, but it seems to make good money from its desktop software. In fact many Macs run (or even boot) Windows.
- PC owners does not have the same easy choice. Hackintosh is there, but it takes work, without guarantee of success, above all with laptops.
So with Mac hardware you have more OS choices. This helps to explain why the Inc. world is no longer reluctant to buy a Mac.
A note of concern: Microsoft is increasingly becoming a hardware company. At some point they may decide to make their OS incompatible (or very difficult) to run with a MacOSX emulation or with a dual boot. Macs would become a bit than less attractive, I guess.
About Software, and most of all outliners, two facts seem to have favoured MacOS in the recent decade:
- WinOS, regardless to its updating, continues to offer poor knowledge management. I think for instance to its inability to handle natively PDFs. As a consequence, there are very few Win applications with good PDF features, like preview, thumbnails on-the-fly, etc., as compared to the huge collection of apps available with MacOS.
- Development OSX tools seem superior than WinOS tools. The introduction in the last decade of the .Net standard made probably more arm than help to the Win world.
If something will change in this regard, probably also the outliner PC software will benefit. In these last years it seemed to languish