[MPA] Request for recommendations

[Thubten Kunga]

You stole my pitch! But I've been trying to play Mr. Tolerant lately. I 
always think any poster who says he or she has to stay in 9 because 
his/her apps aren't available in OS X must list their Apps so we can 
follow up with the counterparts in OS X that are superior.

k

On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 09:40  PM, victor wrote:

> OSX is hardly in limbo. Actually it's OS9 that is in limbo as New Macs 
> won't
> boot it anymore and many companies like Adobe are no longer developing 
> for
> it.
>
> Once you take the plunge you will not look back. The stability, True
> multitasking-multithreading, interface, apps, yadayada...
>
> I was a long time quark user and found the transition to InDesign 
> painless.
> Quark's treatment of customers has always been lame since they had a 
> bit of
> a monopoly. Sure it's scary letting go of years of application 
> knowledge and
> experience but it transfers well to indesign just like your quark files
> will. You will love the illustrator/photoshop/indesign troika.
>
> Have you seen iDVD 3? Used iSync? Keynote? Office? Aside from the 
> laggard
> Quark what could you possibly be using that keeps you mired in the 
> lovable
> kludge we know as OS9?
>
> Come on in. The water's warm.
>
> V-
>
>
>
> On 1/30/03 11:09 PM, "GMacLaren at aol.com" <GMacLaren at aol.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> In a message dated 1/30/03 3:31:14 PM, Kunga at FutureMedia.org writes:
>>
>> << Educational upgrade to FCP 3 is $200. But FCP 4 probably ships at 
>> NAB
>> in April. So you could jump to FCP 4 for only $200 then. But FCP 3.0.2
>> is the last version that will work with 9.2.2. >>
>>
>> Interesting.
>>
>> If I decide to use OS X, I'd
>> just move to Final Cut Express.
>> (I'm booting in 9.2 because none
>> of my major apps are native to OS X.)
>>
>> But so far the only things I've done
>> in OS X is a little web surfing with
>> "Safari" and DVD burning.
>> I think OS X will be in limbo 'til
>> Quark runs on it.
>> If I know of an advantage to making
>> digital audion recordings under X,
>> I try that too.
>>
>> -=Grant=-