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

[Chris Smolinski]

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