[Ti] OSX -- Oh, my

[Ron Woodland]

I totally agree with Michael.  I've picked up a few terminal tricks, but 
I try to stay away from using command lines.  I love the stability and 
fluid feel of unix, but it's much more fun experiencing it through the 
MacOS interface.  My experience was less painful and more rewarding than 
I expected.  The company I work for has been pro-active in obtaining OS 
X-native software for me.  Wow!  I can go days without having to use the 
Classic environment.  I have seen the future and it is pure OS X.  I 
even like MS Office now that I have the X version.  But I have switched 
to InDesign from Quark.  With few exceptions, my older Quark docs open 
fine in InDesign and I have not looked back.  As expected, the 
integration with Illustrator and Photoshop are superior.  So is Adobe's 
attitude toward its users.  The local service bureau has been very 
supportive of the switch, too.  (That was a big factor in the decision 
to go with InDesign.)

Regards,
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Ronald Woodland -- St. George, Utah  84770
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"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but
it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as
if they were great and noble."  -- Helen Keller



Michael Bigley wrote:

>> The question: How do I seamlessly (ha ha) move to 10? Is it as simple 
>> (but as expensive) as buying the upgrades for the software and then praying 
>> that it works? Since I don't do a LICK of programming myself, the question is 
>> of the pure end-user variety -- How screwed up will everything in my computer 
>> life be if I simply go to 10? Will all of my existing applications (and 
>> documents created with them!) be instantly inaccessible? Will OSX be able to
>> "back-read" stuff created in OS9 and then "update" them if I have new
>> OSX-ready software like Office, etc loaded on my hard drive?
> 
> 
> Your files will be fine. There will be a learning curve, as OSX is 
> different from warm and fuzzy OS9.  I encourage you to learn those 
> differences rather than add extensions that make OSX act like OS9. After 
> a couple of weeks of swearing, I starting having "Ah ha" moments in 
> which I starting seeing the beauty of the new design rather than the 
> pain of having to let go of 15 years of habits...
> 
> Quark sort of works in Classic mode, but there are problems with some 
> extensions.  While it is an expensive upgrade process, I would recommend 
> biting the bullet if you can.  While the classic apps work, there are 
> problems and in fact, Classic itself is very processor intensive.
> 
> With Jaguar and the plethora of 3rd party apps now available there is no 
> reason to ever use Terminal or command line unless you REALLY want to.
> 
> Office will work, but Office X is really a nice suite of apps. There was 
> an OfficeX deal with new Macs, if it is still there, you could get that 
> and Jag as part of a New 1gig Ti ;-)
> 
> IE works, but dump it and download Chimera.  It is not even at v1.0 
> (v0.6) and it runs circles around IE; beautiful aqua interface, pure 
> Cocoa version of Mozilla, and once you try tabbed browsing you will be 
> hooked.
> 
> Look at the jump into OSX as the jump into a summer lake... the first 
> plunge may send shivers, but the overall experience will be quite nice.


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