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Plenty of Mac people have plenty of technical skills. Just because we have Macs might be because we dont want to apend the days tinckering with our computer and instead do what we do best, not tinker with our computer.
Ever read their reviews on glassdoor.com? They seem to be the poster child for being a poorly run company.So, in other words, Gibson is not a very well run company.
I've read that with the BG250'S they test out at 240 ish watts give or take, and claim 250. Haven't heard on any of their other stuff so can't comment on that. 10ish watts is in the ballpark of reality IMO though, and I'm pretty sure it's not a difference any of us could perceive. Link?
The RH450 and RH750 both tested at 200-300 watts. Despite being claimed to be 450 and 750 watts, respectively. They don't even hit their ratings at peak power, let alone RMS.
Actually, my Apple disdain comes with a bit of cause. Back in about 1992, I bought the first computer I ever owned. It was a Windows 3.1 machine because it was $1500 and a Mac that did the same things cost $3000 or so at the time. That computer was a war horse and didn't miss a beat. It worked until the internet came along and I went back to school and had to have connectivity for classwork. In the mean time, I was working at a company that had Macs. One of the owners was a Mac guy, with the whole devotion to the Mac thing, in spite of the fact that none of the scheduling or estimating software we needed to use would run on a Mac. Then along came Macbooks. Project manager/estimator types, like me, got those so we would always have the ability to get stuff done on jobsites and the like. That Macbook crashed at least three times a day. I'm not exaggerating at all. I would go home to the elderly, by computer standards, Windows machine, and it would work fine. When I replaced it, I got another Windows machine, since it was about half the price of a comparable Apple. And the replacement, with Windows 95 if I remember right, worked without a hitch. All the software just worked, loaded easily, and was bulletproof. And then at work, I fought with Macs all day, wasted time with them, and ended up acutely frustrated. I was working more than full time, had a small boy at home, and was getting a degree at night. Dinking around with a Mac wasn't on my list of things that I wanted to do.
I'm really happy with a Carvin MB12. With an extension cabinet, it's plenty for small gigs. It's got a crispier, more hi-fi sound than the Acoustic Control stacks I also play through, but it works fine. It was originally intended for use with the upright, but it has gotten a lot more use than that. I think it's got something like 250 watts, but it's plenty loud for what I do. If you have a B string, it's probably no good for that, but I don't need to go down low like that.
I worked for a while at Taylor Guitars in the 90's. If I had been any good at production work I'd probably still be there; that was a fantastic company to work for.
