Message 6/15
Date: 03-Aug-98 @ 07:17 PM -
RE: Win98 not being supported by Steinberg
I too was told to upgrade to Windows 98 by a Steinberg US support person. Steinberg are currently a second rate company with a large market share. Shame really. But the audio software market is expanding at a break neck pace, competition coming from everywhere, so I think things will change in the next year or two. I have very few positive experiences with Steinberg. What it comes down too is these companies advertise a minimum requirements for their products that encompass the largest slice of computer owners, while in reality much higher specs/requirements are needed to run their software effectively. Steinberg won't print 233 PII, SCSI, 128 MB etc..RAM on their adverts as minimum specs because only bloody 10% of computer owners out there have that spec, and not much more can afford to pay for a spec like that.
As computer prices drop these systems should become more realistic. Of course if Steinberg had decent programmers you wouldn't need those specs at all. The structure of the Windows programmers APIs and there memory hungry inefficient nature doersn't help their cause though. Windows struggles at good multimedia throughput unless you have top end hardware acceleration.
Shit I am ranting, OK.... bye