Dear scott.
Let me respond and defend my position.
We are talking ELEVEN YEARS AGO.
at that time as I stated at that time;
I felt the computer hardware/architecture itself wasn’t up to performing
running oodles of plug ins.
Even today lots of folks cant afford the lates mac pro’s
Or super power latest gen pc’s.
The prob is lotsa folks are buying cheapo pc’s,
Then expecting them to run a zillion traks and tasks.
And plug ins ; thus they become disappointed and get probs etc. .
Now 11 yrs later software programming has progressed ,
And more cpu efficient plug ins are available plus at the higher
end pc’s have become more powerfull.
However even today if one isn’t prudent in ones plug in use
and/or the plug ins folks are using are cpu hogs probs still arise.
Thus today even youll see message boards complaining ..
“why cant I run 75 reverbs on my cheap laptop” etc etc. lol.
All the best.

retd puter engr.
daft songs at
www.motagator.net/bmanning
(songs no 9 n higher use new biab2011.)
what is the black art of audio engineering ?.
all puters get obsolete in the end..lol.