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

Sat, 02 Feb 2002 15:58:38 +0100

On 1/31/02 2:52 PM, "Chris Smolinski" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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I am running OS X on a Powerbook G4 667mhz

73 de Patrick ON4LFT (alias VE2ZU and F8DHX)