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viktor_haagSo the replacement for my old QuickSilver Mac desktop at work has arrived and is up and running: a spanky dual-2Ghz G5. I hereby expect snappier performance and lack of hardware problems for at least a few more years.
Sadly, this is probably the last new machine I'll ever get that will be (a) Mac-based, and (b) run FrameMaker, as now that Apple's going to migrate over to Intel for all their hardware, FrameMaker will get forever orphaned on the Mac. (Until Apple can put enough pressure on those wieners at Adobe to get their acts together and either release a port of Frame/Solaris to run on Darwin, or release a Carbonized port of Frame.)
My goal? By the time I no longer have Mac hardware to run Frame, I will have reconfigured the neurons in my head to some other suitable long-document authoring system worth using. So far the future don't look all that promising.
But momentary happiness is here as my computer is reborn in a svelter, faster package!
Sadly, this is probably the last new machine I'll ever get that will be (a) Mac-based, and (b) run FrameMaker, as now that Apple's going to migrate over to Intel for all their hardware, FrameMaker will get forever orphaned on the Mac. (Until Apple can put enough pressure on those wieners at Adobe to get their acts together and either release a port of Frame/Solaris to run on Darwin, or release a Carbonized port of Frame.)
My goal? By the time I no longer have Mac hardware to run Frame, I will have reconfigured the neurons in my head to some other suitable long-document authoring system worth using. So far the future don't look all that promising.
But momentary happiness is here as my computer is reborn in a svelter, faster package!
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Date: 2006-08-01 01:28 (UTC)After shelling out for Creative Suite Professional, and fooling around with Acrobat for the express purpose of putting together some new clinic forms, I learned to my dismay that the Forms generator (a program called Designer) only exists in the Windows version of CS.
Too bad this isn't mentioned anywhere on their site, and even on-line I saw nothing but misinformation on various fora by owners of the Windows version of Acrobat 7.0 Pro scratching their heads at the difference.
::B::
P.S. As for Mac migrating to Intel, this does allow now for the option of running Microsoft's XP (and shortly Vista if it is ever released) either as a dual boot or as a virtual OS. I saw a demo of Boot Camp running XP and I was blown away how good it looked on a new iMac.
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Date: 2006-08-01 01:32 (UTC)The ironic hilarity for me is that I'm realtively hardware agnostic, all things considered. What I'm not is operating system agnostic. If I was at all keen on running Windows, I would have bought a Wintel box and had it dual boot Windows and Linux or something. 8)
The reason that I'm still a Mac fellow is that OSX is "the best OS in the world" (in reality, it's my favourite OS; NeXT/OpenStep comes in a close second, then probably BeOS, then Linux, then BSD, then HP/UX and other Unixes, then Windows).