New ware installing now...

[viktor_haag]

Got my new iWork/iLife in the post this morning, so they're currently getting installed on the workmac. Jeez, there's a lot of goop in iLife.

No doubt this was another "early adopter victimization" purchase, it's not like I've yet made extensive use of much beyond iPhoto and iTunes. Pages was fine for a v1 release, but still had some annoying quirks (like the way it slowed to an absolute crawl when frame borders were turned on); I'm hoping that v2 will be a significant improvement. I don't have much use for Keynote at the moment, so that makes Pages a pretty pricey entry-level layout tool. I was really hoping that iWork '06 would pack a spreadsheet, but no.

Still, I like to keep up-to-date with my software, and they were significantly cheaper purchased through the corporate plan we have set up with Apple, so...

My biggest rationalization with this purchase was to get ahold of iWeb and use it to revamp my long-in-need-of-revamping website. In my copious free time.

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[doc-mystery.livejournal.com]

Are you planning on getting one of the new Intel Macs?

::B::

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Can't afford to right now, in money, or in space. Plus, a lot of the common software I use does not have univeral binary versions available yet. Heck -- one thing I hear absolutely /nothing/ about is the Classic environment. Since I depend on Classic to run FrameMaker, and since FrameMaker is perhaps one of my /most/ used applications, I may never jump to intel Macs until absolutely forced to (years hence, when the chances I'll finally be able to dump Frame for something better are better).

But of the software I use, here's the list of them without universal binary versions, AFAIK: Alias Sketchbook, Corel Painter, Nisus Writer, XJournal, Adium, fink utilities, Carbon Emacs, Adobe CS2, FrameMaker, MS Office.

If Classic runs fine in Rosetta, and Frame poses no problems, then this time next year I may be on Intel, but it's my third-party apps making the decisions, not me! 8)