Ah well I guess I'm off on the VST thing - hadn't been available at the time, still late XP early Win7 at the latest maybe? Honestly though using the guitar ap

Ah well I guess I'm off on the VST thing - hadn't been available at the time, still late XP early Win7 at the latest maybe? Honestly though using the guitar approach that I was favoring, even having native audio drivers wasn't my ideal "sound chain" approach - personally speaking - so I was pretty much destined to use an outside interface for modeling and whatnot, among other approaches. I wasn't an "out of the box" kind of person but understand why Mac has that particular advantage, but for my not-genuinely-pro under-the-hood level I could still tell PC had equal footing to do powerful things that are more defined by the skill of the user than the inherent capabilities or quality of the platform. Basically a wash, thus not really a Mac advantage except in a kind of narrow defined view, a good one though.