[Ham-Mac] Are you running OSX on your Mac ?

[Anthony Bailey]

I've been running Mac OS X on my Mac at work since it was in beta 
mode and Mac OS 9.0.4 on my Mac Clone (PowerComputing PowerBase 180) 
here at home.
Tony


>I'm curious how many hams are running OSX on their "primary" Mac. I made
>the switch about 3 months ago (after spending about a year flipping back
>and forth between 9.1 and 10.0.x) after 10.1 came out, which was a big
>improvement. I like the stability of OSX, and by running it exclusively,
>I hope to prod myself to work faster on MultiMode OSX ;-) 
>
>I noticed a definite uptick in OSX downloads of several of my (non-ham)
>programs when 10.1 came out, so it seems a large number of Mac users are
>changing over.
>
>I'm curious how things will pan out amongst hams though, who seem to
>have a habit of, errr, getting as much lifetime out of a computer as
>possible ;-) (68k Macs have been unsupported by Apple and commerical
>software companies for years now, and OSX won't run on anything other
>than a PCI PowerMac or iMac/iBook/etc)
>
>Here are some numbers to crunch on, these are based on downloads of my
>shareware programs for the month to date:
>
>Downloads of Morse Mania OSX and Classic are virtually tied. This is the
>only ham program I have that is both OSX and Classic. Yet for
>Audiocorder, 76.2% are OSX, 23.1% are Classic, and 0.7% are 68k. For the
>Atomic Mac, 16% are OSX, 79% are Classic, and 5% are 68k. This is quite
>surprising, I think.
>
>Apple is telling developers not to grow attached to Carbon, and start
>developing Cocoa (OSX only) apps quickly. Yet I can't see this
>happening, there's a large installed base of older Macs that cannot run
>OSX. Based on the System 7 experience, my guess is that most apps will
>continue to be Carbon for at least 2-3 years.
>
>So what are you running in your shack?
>
>73
>Chris
>N3JLY
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