PowermacG4_450
OS X Jaguar
systemworks 2.0, norton utilities.... I dont see speed disk? why?
did they do away with it?
did they do away with it?
Where is speeddisk?
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ElDiabloConCaca
U.S.D.A. Prime
Norton Utilities and AntiVirus are the only things in SystemWorks 2.0 that are OS X native. The rest of the applications are still OS 9 only. Sucks, huh?
PowermacG4_450
OS X Jaguar
I dont get it. speeddisk is a BIG seller for norton... why didnt they include it?
will they ever? or they just ditching it?
ElDiabloConCaca
U.S.D.A. Prime
Who knows? I think they'll eventually HAVE to come out with an OS X-native EVERYTHING, otherwise they'll be killed along with OS 9 however far down the road...
You can still boot from the SystemWorks CD and run Speed Disk on an OS X drive, but you'll be booting into OS 9 on the CD... not OS X. Speed Disk can optimize an OS X disk, but there is still debate on whether or not optimizing actually helps OS X like it does OS 9... there's a huge thread on it over at http://www.macintouch.com/fragmentation.html
For now, I have two partitions on one drive: one for OS 9 and the Classic environment, and one for OS X. I boot from the SystemWorks 1.0 CD and optimize my OS X partition like that, and it works just fine. Plus, people have been reporting weird problems and stuff with the new OS X-native Disk Doctor.
I think I'll hold off buying it for a while to see what the final consensus is, and then decide. SystemWorks 1.0 still works for me, so I've no reason to upgrade quite yet.
You can still boot from the SystemWorks CD and run Speed Disk on an OS X drive, but you'll be booting into OS 9 on the CD... not OS X. Speed Disk can optimize an OS X disk, but there is still debate on whether or not optimizing actually helps OS X like it does OS 9... there's a huge thread on it over at http://www.macintouch.com/fragmentation.html
For now, I have two partitions on one drive: one for OS 9 and the Classic environment, and one for OS X. I boot from the SystemWorks 1.0 CD and optimize my OS X partition like that, and it works just fine. Plus, people have been reporting weird problems and stuff with the new OS X-native Disk Doctor.
I think I'll hold off buying it for a while to see what the final consensus is, and then decide. SystemWorks 1.0 still works for me, so I've no reason to upgrade quite yet.
PowermacG4_450
OS X Jaguar
thanks for the info and help. 
this is perhaps another thread, but.... IMHO, the best version of norton for mac was 3.2.
after that, they changed to the current interface, which I dont like. And the program itself has had, for me, problems ever since.
If symantec keeps this up, Ill be switching to another disk utility....
I actually like drive 10.... if they offer a unerase feature, and defrag, I'll ditch norton.
this is perhaps another thread, but.... IMHO, the best version of norton for mac was 3.2.
after that, they changed to the current interface, which I dont like. And the program itself has had, for me, problems ever since.
If symantec keeps this up, Ill be switching to another disk utility....
I actually like drive 10.... if they offer a unerase feature, and defrag, I'll ditch norton.