Disclaimer: I have been an electrical engineer involved in computer and microchip design for 26 years.

I hate using computers for music despite their power for ONE reason: obsolescence.

I used an Atari ST for many years, but the software I ran on it was not portable to other machines and the newer machines had no equivalent software.

This is happening today with the editors for the PLG cards not being supported for OS X or Vista. At some point in the future it is very likely my PLG boards will still be going strong but I will be unable to edit them any more because I can no longer obtain a computer that will run the software (or I will need to carefully maintain a separate computer just for that one task).

To keep a computer environment running over a long period of time you must constantly upgrade the OS and your applications. At some point the new sofware requires you to buy new hardware. Like it or not, a computer based environment is a constantly moving target. In 15 years I have gone though 5 computers and 5 operating systems, each time losing some applications even as I gained new ones.

THAT is what I don't like.