had enough of mac, looking for new OS and laptop

[Paul Maddox]

Jay,

> Sounds like a good plan.  10.10 is more than suitable for the task you wish to give it.

downloading it now :)
I had 10.4

> BTW, what about installing Ubuntu in VMWare/VirtualBox/Parallels (whatever you have) and using that for development without much more fuss?  I do that rather successfully on my Macbook Pro (I don't have any MIDI problems, however) - I have VM's for Win7, Ubuntu, an LFS system, and so on - and they work flawlessly for embedded stuff with the AVR and PIC compilers, and so on ..USB access is pretty much smooth as silk.  Maybe you can route around this whole problem by just setting things up in a VM, using the VM's drivers for USB MIDI, and so on ..
>

Well, I have tried... however the mac doesn't seem to like my USB
programmer... I've tried a new version (AVR Dragon) and that just
sucks on anything, including a windows desktop..
So I've bought myself a genuine AVR ISP MkII (I was using a clone) in
the hope that the Mac will pass through to the VM (it didn't with the
"clone" as it didn't have a driver for it).

If it works, I'll stick with OSX for webby stuff and music and use the
ubuntu VM for development.

It'll be interesting to see how much faster my macbook goes with an
SSD and 8Gb of ram (due tomorrow).

Paul