Making the OSX Transition

[ScottW]

Hello,

Topic for eveyone....

When OSX is released March 24th... how many think that they will at that time... make the final conversion to the new operating system, leaving OS 9 in the dust? How many plan do keep dual environments going, even though OSX supports both? How many will not move to the new platform... and if not then, when?

Admin

[DJ_XTC]

Apple says that 9.1 won't work with the public beta. I'm going to install it on a different partition than 9.0.4 just for the new burning feature. Because it won't work with the beta, I will keep it a daul boot system until OSX has proven that it can do all the things I need it to...... Like direct hardware communication with my sound card in my recording studio.

just my thoughts.

[endian]

I've been using the beta as the regular OS on my home machine, and it's been fine. The only things I even need classic for are BBEdit and Photoshop

I'll get & install OSX as soon as it comes out, but I probably wont' move over to it completely until the aformentioned 2 essential apps are carbonized & (relatively) bug free.

[iRock]

my imac is already running only os x pb solely...so i'll get os x as soon as it comes out and pop it on there. I also have a pm 8600 with an upgrade card that is currently running os x pb, 9, 8.6, 8.1, and 7.6.1...hehe, so yeah, i'll install os x on it but the rest of the systems will remain there for testing purposes, i can also then use any pereferals on it until all the drivers come out of os x.

as far as stuff i still do under classic...office, bbedit, eudora (when i need to get old emails), toast, palm desktop, aim would be nice too (fire is cool and all, but it has some issues)... and then i need drivers for my mouseworks mouse, scanner, usb-scsi adapter, and i think thats it

The big question is what i should do at work...i'm thinking i'll install os x on my imac there and leave my other computer running 9.1. Then i can do work quickly under os 9 rather than having classic open, i'd switch that over then whenever i have no need for os 9 and i'm getting sick of staring at it

[jove]

Hello,

I was using X beta exclusively for everything except mail (location manager stuff). When my iBook found the freedom of Airport, 9 became my primary system again. I was not pleased. Crashing daily is a real b*tch!

When X is released I'll go back to using X exclusively. Of course, I'll leave 9.1 on a seperate partition - just in case. I am assuming 9.1 will work with X final.

Jove

[AdmiralAK]

Hmmmm.... Good question....
Well... I will install X on my primary partition and have 9.1 on my secondary partition just in case.
What will make or break X for me is compatibility with classic apps, and how well it handles itself with languages (i.e. unicode & language kits)


Admiral