[mishap]

I thought it would be important to start a new topic for this since, according to the MacNN homepage, increase OSX performace by 70%. i dont know (i have yet to try it)
experiences?

http://www.macromedia.com/support/dr..._updaters.html

[sandsl]

Just installed the update and I'd agree that its quite a performance boost. For one, switching between, code, split and design views is loads quicker on my machine after the update.

...and it feels faster overall, its more than usable now

[mishap]

Originally posted by sandsl:
Just installed the update and I'd agree that its quite a performance boost. For one, switching between, code, split and design views is loads quicker on my machine after the update.

...and it feels faster overall, its more than usable now

on my iBook 800 it actually feels usable.

[Love Calm Quiet]

The notes about MX 2004 scared me off from upgrading from MX (2003) v6.0.

Forgetting about what MM hypes as the benefits one is SUPPOSED to get from this upgrade, what would users here say are the REAL benefits of 7.0 over 6.0 [ My 667MHz Tibook cannot afford for it to be any LESS responsive or any MORE unstable ]

Your experience (esp. after upgrading to 7.0.1) ?

[mishap]

Originally posted by Love Calm Quiet:
The notes about MX 2004 scared me off from upgrading from MX (2003) v6.0.

Forgetting about what MM hypes as the benefits one is SUPPOSED to get from this upgrade, what would users here say are the REAL benefits of 7.0 over 6.0 [ My 667MHz Tibook cannot afford for it to be any LESS responsive or any MORE unstable ]

Your experience (esp. after upgrading to 7.0.1) ?

Benefits? The way CSS are handled in MX04 is brilliant. Obviously, my opinion (i feel like i need to say that or someone will get pissed off around here). After that, i couldnt go back to 6.1

7.0 was very stable (for me at least) just very slooooow.

[jindrich]

i'd also like very much some user feedback on the matter.

currently on a 1.25 powerbook and dreamveaver MX. how does it compare to mx04 v7?
I'm VERY unimpressed by Macromedia apps' performance on macs, i'm thinking about going back to PCs for that reason alone.

if only Macromind were here.

[Adam Betts]

Originally posted by jindrich:
i'd also like very much some user feedback on the matter.

currently on a 1.25 powerbook and dreamveaver MX. how does it compare to mx04 v7?
I'm VERY unimpressed by Macromedia apps' performance on macs, i'm thinking about going back to PCs for that reason alone.

if only Macromind were here.

If you switch to PCs, you'd still have the same performance problem.

So far, DW 7.0.1 on Mac seem to be more faster than latest DW on PCs.

[jindrich]

Originally posted by Adam Betts:
If you switch to PCs, you'd still have the same performance problem.

So far, DW 7.0.1 on Mac seem to be more faster than latest DW on PCs.

i'm not thinking of leaving macs, but i was very dissapointed when i started to use dreamveaver and flash on macs. On a previous job, i was using pcs with those apps (although version 4 or so), and they were FAST on a humble and very outdated 900mhz PIII.
I dont know how current versions run on pcs today, but many people/business here are thinking of swtiching to PCs because even G5s dont cut the mustard (and cost 3 times more than a comparable PC).
To the accounting department that's what makes sense.

we've gained stability, but performance STILL has MUCH way for improvement. Users DONT CARE whether it's Apple or the software developer fault. They just use the machines that work (fast).

sadly, looks like for the last couple of years Macromedia is committed to the PC platform, having a Mac team just for the sentimental reasons, because that's where it all started.

[OptimusG4]

Yes, Winromedia has sped up Dreamweaver but it's sad that it took this long to get it up to useable speed.

[:dragonflypro:]

Originally posted by OptimusG4:
Yes, Winromedia has sped up Dreamweaver but it's sad that it took this long to get it up to useable speed.

At least it wasn't Quark'ed.

T

[jasong]

Nice speed boost here.

-- Jason

[tRr]

Amazing speed boost on this near vintage hardware

[jasong]

I should add that applying the patch was a PITA. You have to disable all of your extensions, which:

1. Took forever
2. Couldn't be done because many extensions seemed to be missing something which prevented the Extension Manager (boy does that name conjure up bad memories) from creating the package

Due to problem number 2, I just gave up and installed the patch and then had to just reinstall all my extensions over themselves. I still need to do this on 2 more computers . . .

But the performance boost is great.

-- Jason

[mishap]

Reinstalling Extensions over themselves can be very bad.

Extension Manager continually crashed on launch for me for a while and it took me a while to figure out one of the Flash extensions i installed twice was the problem.

[sushiism]

Originally posted by jindrich:
(although version 4 or so), and they were FAST on a humble and very outdated 900mhz PIII.

jesus christ, version 4 obviously the important part of that statement fire up version 4 on a recent mac its prolly just as fast, i mena god I was running version 4 on my pentium 2 with 64 meg of ram haha

[Orion27]

While I'm not a Dreamweaver power user, I found 7.0 a little bloated and slow compared to 6.0. 7.0.1 is faster now and at least tolerable on startup. I have a dual 1.25 but most of my work has been done so far at the office on my 1.25 Al Powerbook. I've almost migrated totally to 7.01.

[Oisín]

Originally posted by sushiism:
jesus christ, version 4 obviously the important part of that statement fire up version 4 on a recent mac its prolly just as fast, i mena god I was running version 4 on my pentium 2 with 64 meg of ram haha

Gotcha beat! I was running versions 4 & 5 on my old Pentium 166, 32 MB RAM (or 40, can't remember anymore)... that was slow...

[funkboy]

Dreamweaver MX 2004 7.0.1 seems just as fast and usable as Dreamweaver 3 running in Classic on my iMac 800. Of course, I could be dreaming that because 7.0 was so horrendously awful. I would seriously have considered never buying any more macromedia software after that... sigh.

I still think the performance on PCs is just as good if not much better than on Macs...

[mishap]

Originally posted by funkboy:


I still think the performance on PCs is just as good if not much better than on Macs...

Also the interface is far superior than the mac.

[workerbee]

Now if Macromedia, in a fit of selfless philantropy, upgraded the built-in html rendering engine from Opera 6 to Opera 7.5, we just might have a screamer here…