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Netscape 7.0.2 hangs my computer about 3 times per session and it will not allow me to install the flash 8 plug-in. I'm on a Mac 9600 400ghz 320mb of memory.
I have firefox on the windows machine but I hate the windows operating system so much and I'm not sure I'm going to like OSX


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Love Firefox on my Mac, and on the Windows side of my Mac.
- Rich

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which Mac do you have Rich? I got my first Mac, it was a mac plus and it had an external 20mb drive. Around 89' or so. We had a Apple IIc at home also for the kids games. The first color Macs came out right after I got mine. The first portable Mac looked like a suitcase

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An Intel MacBook Pro, the 15.4". I put a 120gb HDD in it, and 2 GB of RAM. I LOVE IT SO MUCH! It's not technically my first Mac, the Apple II was back in the day. This is however the first Mac I remember using extensively. It is the shit.
- Rich

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I use Camino on my Mac and it is lovely: Based on Firefox, but more mac-like

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I'll want to look at all the browsers but the gecko engine really rules. I hear things like the newest Internet Explorer is crap. I'm amazed when I read that to use Vista for Windows you have to disable the safety features leaving yourself exposed. Does this mean the hackers can STILL access the command lines of DOS?

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I use Camino on my Mac, too, and really like it; virtually no problems. If I do have a problem with a particular site, I switch to Safari. I tried Firefox last time I did a clean reinstall of the OS, but didn't like it as well as Camino. There is nothing wrong with it, it was merely an aesthetic thing. I know both Mac- and PC-users who use Firefox, and like it very much, no complaints whatever.

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I'm glad we have a geek thread to go to
How often is OSX upgraded? are the first releases of upgrades stable or do you wait a while and watch the pioneers (guys/gals with arrows in their backs).
Is there anyone here doing pre-press on OSX?

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It seems like there's an OSX upgrade every couple of years. I've installed the latest version on several different computers, as well as used it, with no problems, even from the very beginning.
I've had my iBook since June 2003, and in that time the OS has crashed on two occasions only (my previous computer, a PC, had left me believing that it is normal for a computer to crash at least once a day; it may simply have been a bad unit, of course). The previous version of Word used to crash every 5 minutes (I was literally saving after every few words), but the current version gives me no problems, and there have been a few websites that have crashed Camino - routinely. But that's it.
And there's definitely never been anything like the current mess with Window's Vista, which identifies legitimately purchased copies as pirated
If you don't HAVE Vista, of course, it's funny: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070305 (the plotline last about half a dozen strips)

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Originally Posted by fredricktoo I'm glad we have a geek thread to go to
How often is OSX upgraded? are the first releases of upgrades stable or do you wait a while and watch the pioneers (guys/gals with arrows in their backs).
Is there anyone here doing pre-press on OSX? I've used a Mac since '85. The old OS was great for desktop publishing and still probably bests the new OS in that respect. But the new OS is perfectly serviceable and I have Quark and InDesign on Mac OS X 10.4.9. I've done typesetting in the new and old OS, and still keep the old OS around if I want to use Pagemaker. (I should say, as a disclaimer, that I'm not a professional at this, merely an involved amatuer.)
The time to jump to the Mac OS X is right now, because 10.4 is right at the end of its development and is a very stable release. The forthcoming 10.5 probably won't be great until 10.5.4 or thereabouts. (Incremental releases come out about every two to three months.) 10.4 (Tiger) is now a pretty good OS, though I have a personal preference for 10.3.9.
Looking at mac rumours I think the time to buy a new Mac is September of this year or thereabouts. And I'm trying to hold of on a new powerbook until then. There will be some very substantial changes around August or before.