I tell ya, I thought I was satisifed, but I am frustrated beyond belief again.
OS X, is NOT for everyone. I am a Mac evangelist, and I can see the advantages OS X has for most. If you have a newer machine, or just use it to read email, it's a great OS. But as for me, and I am sure a silent group of others like me, this OS X blows to try to do ANY productive amount of work on.
All of my complaints were made months ago, but I will breifly repeat them again. I fixed some of the speed probs by upgrading my video card to a Radeon 9000. But it did not fix everything.
Drag and drop: this is a vital proceedure in the way I work, but I can no longer simply drag a eps file onto a photoshop icon to open, or a jpg, gif or pdf file for that matter. Having to File/Open every single document I want to work on is a MAJOR hassle. Ever want to open more than 1 image at a time, from random places? I hope not, cuz you can't do it anymore.
Speed: working within my big 3, Photoshop, ImageReady and Dreamweaver is really slow. Simple operations, like "new document", "layer styles" or even "new layer" take seconds longer. If anybody reads that and says "seconds? Get over it" then you obviously do not work in graphics for a living.
Snapshots: useless as PDFs going to my desktop. Why? I use a LOT of snapshots the way I work, and all of them collecting on my desktop as random PDFs sucks. And since I can't drag and drop them, it's again a slow, tedious process.
I am running a G4 with 400MHz and 832MB of memory, I wish, really wish, there was some kind of warning to those of us with older machines not to upgrade cuz of speed issues. Instead, all this OS X love festing has put me in a bad situation trying to work. I wish I had never upgraded, I use a similar G4 (minues the upgraded video card) at work everyday with OS 9 installed. Sure, it crashes WAY too often (OS X NEVER crashes), but stability isn't everything when your freelancing at home on a project and it'sd taking forever to do simple projects. OS 9 is way faster on G4's configured like mine and way easier to use.
If anybody has real answers, let me hear them. Not BS answers like "get over it" or "works fine to me". If you do not understand why I am complaining abou these subjects, you either have a newer machine that OS X was MEANT for (as opposed to Apple letting us all move to it without warning) or you do not require to work at hi-speeds under daily deadlines such as I do. I love Apple, and understand OS X is better. But it ISN'T a better option for everybody. OS 9 is way better if you have an older machine and you want to work productivley.
OS X, is NOT for everyone. I am a Mac evangelist, and I can see the advantages OS X has for most. If you have a newer machine, or just use it to read email, it's a great OS. But as for me, and I am sure a silent group of others like me, this OS X blows to try to do ANY productive amount of work on.
All of my complaints were made months ago, but I will breifly repeat them again. I fixed some of the speed probs by upgrading my video card to a Radeon 9000. But it did not fix everything.
Drag and drop: this is a vital proceedure in the way I work, but I can no longer simply drag a eps file onto a photoshop icon to open, or a jpg, gif or pdf file for that matter. Having to File/Open every single document I want to work on is a MAJOR hassle. Ever want to open more than 1 image at a time, from random places? I hope not, cuz you can't do it anymore.
Speed: working within my big 3, Photoshop, ImageReady and Dreamweaver is really slow. Simple operations, like "new document", "layer styles" or even "new layer" take seconds longer. If anybody reads that and says "seconds? Get over it" then you obviously do not work in graphics for a living.
Snapshots: useless as PDFs going to my desktop. Why? I use a LOT of snapshots the way I work, and all of them collecting on my desktop as random PDFs sucks. And since I can't drag and drop them, it's again a slow, tedious process.
I am running a G4 with 400MHz and 832MB of memory, I wish, really wish, there was some kind of warning to those of us with older machines not to upgrade cuz of speed issues. Instead, all this OS X love festing has put me in a bad situation trying to work. I wish I had never upgraded, I use a similar G4 (minues the upgraded video card) at work everyday with OS 9 installed. Sure, it crashes WAY too often (OS X NEVER crashes), but stability isn't everything when your freelancing at home on a project and it'sd taking forever to do simple projects. OS 9 is way faster on G4's configured like mine and way easier to use.
If anybody has real answers, let me hear them. Not BS answers like "get over it" or "works fine to me". If you do not understand why I am complaining abou these subjects, you either have a newer machine that OS X was MEANT for (as opposed to Apple letting us all move to it without warning) or you do not require to work at hi-speeds under daily deadlines such as I do. I love Apple, and understand OS X is better. But it ISN'T a better option for everybody. OS 9 is way better if you have an older machine and you want to work productivley.