Webmasters on Mac OS or Mac OS X

Has everyone made that switch yet?

[EliteWeb]

Are Macintosh webmasters utilizing Mac OS up to 9 or Mac OS X on their computers? Why are you using the OS you say, what features, what programs, what support or lack of is there.

I am using Mac OS 9 and not OS X on my iBook because of speed consistancy issues. Id use X on it but it may die plus I don't have anything backed up. hehehe ok so i reminded myself what to do today - backup ;)

[Macguru]

I use both MacOSX and 9.2 on my G4. It came preloaded. I since use a few of the 3 000 software titles available for MacOSX. Only the ones I have to use and can afford :

• * Photoshop 7
  
• * FileMaker workgroups
  
• * Connectix Virtual PC 5.0
  
• 4D RAD/RDBMS
  
• AppleWorks
  
• * Debabelizer
  
• * IE 5
  
• QuicKeys
  
• Timbuktu
  

Titles marked with a "*" show the greatest speed improvement. There is not much webmasters tools available right now and frankly, I dont really see what kind of improvement software such as DW (using mostly integer) could pull from Mac OSX. I just jump to mac OS 9 for most of this work.

[mivox]

Haven't gone to OSX yet because I have a eency-weency little 4 GB hard drive in my G3 Powerbook, and it takes up too much room.

I'll probably finally get around to upgrading when I buy a new computer with X installed... or get a bigger HD for the laptop.

[grnidone]

The thing that sucks with X is that you essentially have to get new software for it. Yeah, I know..it has a 'classic' part to it, but haven't heard anyone say anything good about it.

[Macguru]

That will come later when they upgrade.
For the time beeing, only applications using floating point calcs really benefit from speed. (Such as 3D rendering, image, video or sound editing, etc)

Some stability quirks (normal for such a transition) happend more often on Mac OSX with new software. The system is not rock solid yet and can lead to some very serious crashes. (Had to reinstall it 'à la Windows once, isn't that scary? :) ). Photoshop 7 gets the most bang for the buck for the apps I use.

Mac OSX is very promising for high end computing needs. Just that a niche market will benefit from this. Not for consumers, regular buisness or webmasters, IMHO.

[eboda]

100 % OS X

I have been 100 % OS X for almost 6 months now. Web programming has been great, and using all the new OS X apps needed to get my work done.

Photoshop 7
Illustrator 10
GoLive 10
BBEdit
Acrobat
Live Motions
Flash MX
Office X
Virtual PC 5
And the list could go on....

Lets not forget how easy it is to work with programming now and working with Perl and CGI files is a joy in the Unix based OS.

I have to say the joy of working all day with dozens of apps open and closed all day long without a thought of Rebooting or Crashing is a joy! ;)

Great to see this forum!
eboda