5 Oct
2007
5 Oct
'07
3:07 p.m.
OK, that
<bad word> STINKS! Just the night before last I had to fire
up ClarisDraw as even though I own copies of more modern drawing
app's, nothing works as well. First in 10.4 they dropped support for
classic AppleTalk breaking things for me, now this. Well, we may
just stay on 10.4.x for the next few years. As a result of the
Appletalk issue I didn't upgrade to 10.4 till earlier this year, even
though I bought it the day it came out.
Yep. Although to be fair, I have few Macs so old they can't run MacOS
8.1 and it networks happily with Tiger boxes over TCP/IP.
But yes, I entirely agree. I happily run Linux, but if money were no object,
I'd be on OS X on a
Mac Pro, with Wine for a few legacy Windows apps - or possibly
Parallels Desktop, as it's cheap and it runs Windows seamlessly - i.e.
Windows apps' windows merged with OS X apps on the same shared
desktop. On a quad-core or octo-core machine with 4G of RAM, I could
afford a copy of W2K in a VM. I'd never notice the load, I'm sure. The
thing that saddens me is that if you do this, you suddenly have to do
all that tired old dancing around with legions of MS updates and
antivirus and antispyware and so on in Windows on your nice clean safe
Mac.
One of the reasons I'm still on the G5 is RAM is more important to me that
speed. The only new system I could use would be a nice Mac Pro, and I don't
really want to know what 4-8GB RAM would cost. I'm currently sitting at
5.5GB in my G5, and am starting to look at bumping it up to 7GB (will
require pulling 512MB).
Zane