I have to agree, I truly dislike Daft punk. I Hate vocoder sound. My personal opinion aside, that is a rocking stage.
Led's are changing everything.
AS for the Mac's They have issues some times as do all moving lights. Vari*Lite does make some great fixtures. They are really expensive, but nice. They soured me a long time ago when they were in the "sue me, sue you, sue everybody" phase. This is the same reason I will never in my life spec color kinetics for anything ever again.
As for martin, I am biased we were dealers here and they treated us well (most of the time).
I would like to play with the ShowGun from high end. It looks like the first decent product from them in a long time. After they borked the hog3 they lost a lot of sales. The catalyst is a good product though.
Whatever you do stay the HELL away from Coemar. They screwed us, cost us a long time client and a lot of money.
Chad
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.