Hi Enthusiast

I also feel like giving you my modest opinion for what it's worth since my use of BIAB is fairly limited compared to what I've read in this forum. I'm just a toddler...

I use it mainly to try out all my jazz lead sheets compositions or arrangements. I just lay out my chord structure, choose a style and play the theme in real time on a keyboard, while composing or just to check if everything is in the right place and then making adjustments. Afterward maybe I'll save them as audio files and burn them to practice until I try it out with real musicians.

I never use melody, solist or notation (I use another program for notation). So that's why I say my use of BIAB is limited compared to what I've seen here. But BIAB does a super job for my needs.

A few weeks ago I came back to MAC after a 10 or 12 years “leave of absence” in the Windows world. At the time it was high prices in the MAC world that made me change. Now I'm writing on an iMAC and I'm glad to be back.

I've been using BIAB (windows) since 2005. So I bought the latest MAC version. Even considering my limited use of BIAB I was surprised to see that they were no 1st & 2nd endings and no visible tag signs in the MAC version ! And I use them a lot. So when you play in real time and follow the chords, it's a bit of a hassle. I put that in the wish list...

But hey, like others said, no OS is better than the other it's just different. What I like about a MAC is that's it's one manufacturer. Along those years I dabbled in PC repairs and man, it's the tower of Babel. Every PC manufacturer wants to plug their own little “gismos”. For example : buy an acer and they'll install acer's “empowering technology”. Acer provides programs that Windows already has and that do the job as faster and better. Windows in itself is a good OS, but sometimes the machines on which it runs are crap. I'm not altogether through though, I still have a portable acer with vista but with no “empowering technology” !! But then again you have to take care of your computer, be it MAC or PC. Some small things are better in PC, but in all I do find that working with MAC OS let's you get faster to the essential of what you want to do : finding, archiving, installing / uninstalling applications. But that's personal.

All the best.

Best of all and hope your day is a nice one

Pierre