No argument on any point you made, Bob.
I can only say from experience that making multichannel, low-latency
streaming audio work on the machines while running Windows has been a
significant challenge; at least for me. I don't question that MatLab and
any number of heavy-hitter Windows apps run just fine, but unless you're
streaming low-latency audio at high bitrates in and out of MatLab (which
is sometimes but not often done) I don't believe it's quite the same thing.
Sorry all, my comments probably have fallen into the "not helping"
category. We could argue this one 'till the cows come home and it really
doesn't have much to do with the Flex per se.
73,
Jim, N7CXI
Robert Jefferis wrote:
Jim,
You are absolutely correct - it is not FLEX's fault. But, there is no
fault, per se. Sure, the bios and drivers may be proprietary to Apple,
just like any particular PC manufacturer's bios is considered to be
proprietary to that particular manufacturer. Apple has to provide
drivers to map keyboard, mouse, and other overhead functions into the MS
world. However, a case in point: if you take the service control thread
from today and try to turn things off or modify behavior, the Boot
Camp/MS OS user finds that the behavior is identical to a PC from any PC
manufacturer. When Apple finally decided to abandon the Power PC and use
Intel guts, they also made a marketing commitment to create and maintain
Boot Camp. I use a number of engineering application software packages
(MatLab, just to name one, that is a serious, high powered windows only
application, not a toy) that are only supported under Windows. They all
install and behave normally. I certainly did NOT update to an iMAC and
Boot Camp just for Amateur Radio. Apple is committed to this duality. Us
iMAC users enjoy the best of both worlds.
Bob KF6BC
On Aug 6, 2009, at 4:57 PM, Jim Barber wrote:
My interpretation of the point is that Apple PC's specifically
*aren't* "Standard PC's". There are non-trivial differences that set
them apart for these purposes.
Mantra: At least in this particular, isolated case it just ain't
Flex's fault.
My .02,
Jim Barber, N7CXI
Brian Lloyd wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Tim Ellison<telli...@itsco.com> wrote:
Folks,
As per the FlexRadio Users Reflector description
(http://www.flex-radio.com/Support.aspx?topic=Reflector_Description),
any discussion regarding the operation of FlexRadio's products on
unsupported hardware, such as the iMacs needs to be moved to the
FlexEdge Reflector.
I thought that any PC running Windows XP was standard. So what you are
saying is that Windows XP computers from Dell, HP, IBM, Toshiba, Acer,
Asus, Gateway, and Grandma's Custom Computer and Grocery Emporium is
supported but Apple is not? Seems odd to me given that Apple is one of
the largest suppliers of standard PC hardware these days.
I would certainly agree if we were talking about running the
experimental versions of PowerSDR but are talking about just running
standard Windows XP on a Standard PC made by Apple running the
standard released software from Flex.
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