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AppleWorks 6--why so bad?
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Oxford, Ohio
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I have used AppleWorks for ages--ever since it was a 5.25" program on Apple IIs at my middle school. I used ClarisWorks, then back to AppleWorks. I've always found it to be what I need for a WP program. When I recently purchased my G4, AppleWorks was some of the first software I got. I installed the OS X 6.2 version expecting it to be fairly refined.
Wrong. It spontaneously quits when opening files or even changing windows. Every time I launch the app, my cursor becomes jerky. Tonight, I discovered a new issue. Whenever AppleWorks is open, CPU Monitor and Process Viewer show AppleWorks hoarding an immodest 88% (on average) of CPU resources. What's up with this? I don't think it's my computer (867/640 MB with 10.0.4), but I expected better from AppleWorks. Thanks.
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Originally posted by max4ever:
<STRONG>I have used AppleWorks for ages--ever since it was a 5.25" program on Apple IIs at my middle school. I used ClarisWorks, then back to AppleWorks. I've always found it to be what I need for a WP program. When I recently purchased my G4, AppleWorks was some of the first software I got. I installed the OS X 6.2 version expecting it to be fairly refined.
Wrong. It spontaneously quits when opening files or even changing windows. Every time I launch the app, my cursor becomes jerky. Tonight, I discovered a new issue. Whenever AppleWorks is open, CPU Monitor and Process Viewer show AppleWorks hoarding an immodest 88% (on average) of CPU resources. What's up with this? I don't think it's my computer (867/640 MB with 10.0.4), but I expected better from AppleWorks. Thanks.</STRONG>
I assume that since you specify the 6.2 version this is the lastest update from the Apple webpage? If not I would install the update, that has helped out quite a bit on errors. Otherwise sorry about your bad experience, for me using the WP and Spreadsheet modules I've only had one crash in a couple months of using Appleworks for OSX, and the performance is fine on my G3/333.
The massive idle CPU usage is another issue that I pray gets fixed in the next update, basically you just can't leave Appleworks open if you're not using it. This has been reported here by several people with several different types of computers, so it's not like the Mozilla Dual-CPU bug (ie limited to very specific hardware types)
msykes
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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Probably, the CPU usage problem is a case of AppleWorks having been ported to X, but not optimized for X. I'd image they'll eventually release an update in which they've replaced old event-handling code with Carbon Events and performed other optimizations... hopefully it'll be soon.
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Thanks guys. And yes, I do have the latest update, though often I check the apple software website for a 6.2.1 or even 6.3 update.
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More to the point - where the *hell* is the International English version of the updater ???
We may not pay in $$$ for our Macs, but we still pay, and we still deserve the same level as service as the US users get.
How much work can there be moving from US English to International (aka 'real') English.
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