I’m not sure whether it had something to do with the fact that I said a number of things that could be interpreted as negative toward Apple and iLife in todays episode of the EduKast (in Dutch) or that it was just bad luck, but after recording the last piece of audio Garageband decided that it wanted to crash.
I’ve been told that Macs are very stable, but today that wasn’t the case. And because I’ve hadn’t had these kind of problems using Adobe Audition yet (not even when the disc was full) I hadn’t though of saving while recording todays episode of the EduKast podcast.
Result: everything gone, 45 minutes of work lost.
I started over and re-recorded the episode, but it underlines the comment that I make in the podcast: “there is much less difference between a Mac and a PC then people would like you to believe”.
See, the problem is that Macs WERE more stable than Windows computers. Since then two things have happened: 2000 and XP have introduced fairly stable versions of Windows, and Macs have become less stable. In a discussion I had on this issue recently, some one suggested this might have to do with the shift to the Intel platform. Hopefully Leopard will be better equipped to handle the new architecture…