Search Again: Re: MacOS X From: Aaron Lynch Date: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 Time: 1:52:29 pm On 5/30/01 1:39 AM, The Defendant "Matt Henderson" <matt@makalumedia.com> Confessed: > The second machine is my own Powerbook G4, on which I work eight to ten > hours a day doing web application development and admin stuff. As I type > this email, the machine is presently running its usual suite of concurrent > applications: > > + BBEdit, DNS Expert, Graphic Converter, IE, Ircle, iTunes, > MacSSH, Entourage, Excel, Word, NotePad Deluxe, QDNS Manager, > SpellCatcher, URL Manager Pro, Vicomsoft FTP, Web Confidential, > and VirtualPC. Ok, BBEdit is carbon. It works well, but there are a few glitches (like for example, in a global search/replace it can't tell between text and image files, and you can't seem to cancel it when it's doing a find/replace on 10,000 files :< ) It is moderately slower on OSX DNS expert runs well in classic Graphic converter runs well carbon IE is ok in X Ircle I don't use. Itunes, IMO is THE reason to use X. If you listen to music with itunes while working, in OSX I've __NEVER__ heard it skip. Ssh is built in to the terminal Entourage, excel, word all run well in classic QDNS manager works pretty well in X I don't use your other apps. So, no comment. Classic is kinda piggy, but the nice part is that _when_ it locks up, you kill it and keep working. All your X apps survive, your music still plays, life goes on... I would say, get A LOT of ram. I have 768 on my PB g4. Also, I just got dragthing, and made myself a nifty apple menu at the top of the screen. That's been an immense productivity booster. I don't have to go to the dock to select an app an back to the top to select a window. And Since dragthing can have hierarchical menus, I don't have to wait for the finder, which SUCKS in OSX. hth -- Aaron Lynch System Administrator NineWire Digital Solutions || http://ninewire.com The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. -George Carlin

Messages In This Thread: MacOS X by Matt Henderson on May 30, 2001 at 1:40:10 am Re: MacOS X by Nicholas Orr on May 30, 2001 at 1:55:14 am Re: MacOS X by Martin Fritze on May 30, 2001 at 2:24:13 am Re: MacOS X by Aaron Lynch on May 30, 2001 at 1:52:29 pm Re: MacOS X by Matt Henderson on May 31, 2001 at 3:06:51 am Re: MacOS X by Aaron Lynch on May 31, 2001 at 3:43:32 am Re: MacOS X by Global Homes Webmaster on May 31, 2001 at 10:13:26 am Re: MacOS X by Nicholas Orr on May 31, 2001 at 4:56:43 pm Re: MacOS X by Steve Linford on Jun 1, 2001 at 1:38:15 am Re: MacOS X by Rob Gridley on Jun 1, 2001 at 9:48:41 am Re: MacOS X by Nicholas Orr on Jun 3, 2001 at 3:49:07 pm