I run a macbook 2.16ghz with 2 gig of ram. A mike goes into a Behringer 802 mixer which goes into a Behringer UC202 USB interface. Software wise I’m running garage band and audacity. So a pretty budget system. I’ve tried various hacks, like reverting to the pre 10.5 USB audio driver, but to no avail.

If anyone has any pointers, would be much appreciated. Alternatively, if you are experiencing similar problems, you are not alone!

Both of these ought to be possible theoretically. As others have pointed out, though, there are workarounds or hacks that can yield this possibility.

As per, Apple “forcing” you to update, It is not the case. When I was running 10.5.1 I just would close Software Update when it occasionally popped up with a reminder to update to 10.5.2. This is far less annoying that repeated nagging of Windows to update and it’s attempts to apply updates when you shut down or restart (particularly annoying when you restart when installing a program). Having used Windows and Linux, I find that OSX allows you install whichever updates you want and is not that annoying about it. It’s not like you can’t install Office (or other programs) without a Service Pack installed.

nintendo ds and macbook fluently speaking with each other via airport
i don’t know why it seems like everyone has sucha problem doing this

so far for my wiriless midi controller i have
128 toggles
15 sliders
and 30 knobs

thank you nintendo!
sorry this was off topic but i just felt like saying is all

The SuperDuper! backup method also gives you a significant advantage over System Restore/Time Machine in that you can have a completely bootable drive that you can start the Mac from if the internal drive became corrupted. Theoretically you could use this to have two distinct systems - your “pristine” audio production system, and your bog-standard system where you do your surfing etc. I’ve sort of gone down this route already by having my normal user account for day-to-day tasks, and and Audio user account which is only for music production. Helps in giving focus as well!

Cheers,

Maurice

But yes, Time Machine can be used for rollbacks. And backups always rock. An actual rollback method does give you more granular control over specific updates, though there is a fix for that, too, as discussed here:
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/05/12/fix-for-mac-audio-dropouts-roll-back-tiger-airport-support/

And those aren’t “fanboy” responses, Nassir/MK — you’re right, it is actually a solution. :)

At the risk of sounding like a Mac fanboy, you could try the roll-back thing with a an external drive and SuperDuper! I have an MBP with a 120Gb drive, and I’m about to invest in a new 250Gb external firewire drive. Using SuperDuper! (sorry for the exclaimation marks but they seem to have done a Yahoo! on the product name) I plan on doing a full bootable backup prior to major OS changes - if something goes wrong I can restore from it, or run from it. I’ve chosen a 250Gb drive so that I can split it into roughly 2 drives the same size as my internal drive, and use one as regular backup, and one as an emergency backup - maybe with a nice clean version of the OS that I can use to perform recovery on the internal drive if necessary.

Not sure what you mean by “Apple could let you run the OS you want to run” - I select what patches I want to install same as I do on Windows machines? I probably haven’t been an Apple customer for long enough to get pissed off (but I certainly was a Linux/Windows user for long enough to look for something else).