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ChillieMac · Jun 11, 2002, 11:56 PM

Out of those of us who are designers or creative pros,
How many of us work in OS X?
Please answer like this...
I used OS X 60-65%
OS 9 35-40%
OS 9 needed mainly because of Quark, 2 photoshop plug-ins
and need drivers for my hardware. I could live without the plug-ins
and do alright with Quark (or use InDesign instead), buy my main problem is lack of hardware drivers.

Now what's your experience.

godzookie2k · Jun 12, 2002, 12:03 AM

At home: 100%

At work: 0%

Mainly due to hardware issues, Quark (mainly) and pshop. Its not software upgrade season for us, nor is it hardware upgrade season. Then, there is the whole training issue for the networking/tech support folk, and other non osx familiar designers (not to mention ad reps, accounting, etc we have a 95% mac office). We are planning to go X sometime around March-June next year however.

KaptainKaya · Jun 12, 2002, 12:23 AM

Home...100%.
Work...95%. A couple of the Macs still have 9.2 on them, mainly for Quark and a few PS plugins as well.

Mac Guru · Jun 12, 2002, 12:52 AM

Home 100%

Work 100%

I am given the choice to use whatever I want... I decided Screw Quark and went to InDesign. So far so good.

Mac Guru

mitchell_pgh · Jun 12, 2002, 01:01 AM

Home 80% (damn you Quark!)

Work 0% (Ugh, old G3 would be a slug with OSX)

zilmer · Jun 12, 2002, 05:09 AM

Home 0%.

Work 0%.

Worst. Episode. Ever. · Jun 12, 2002, 07:13 AM

Home: 100%
Work: 100% (with Quark running in classic)

Griggsy · Jun 12, 2002, 09:18 AM

80% X Home/work
(only need to switch back for GoLive5 and Quark!)

Corys · Jun 12, 2002, 11:31 AM

Home 100%
Work: 0%
Waiting for Quark, Rampage Client, Preps

Vanquish · Jun 12, 2002, 12:26 PM

100 %, OSX All the way !!! (the hell with Quark go InDesign ! (until the new version maybe...))

andreas_g4 · Jun 12, 2002, 02:36 PM

home 120%
work 90%

Eric_Henao · Jun 12, 2002, 04:21 PM

home 0%
work 0%

Old macs at the house
Quark 5 use at work. Besides everything runs ROCK SOLID in 9.1.

Eric Henao

ARENA · Jun 12, 2002, 08:11 PM

Mac OS X 100%
Photoshop 7, GoLive 6, InDesign 2, Illustrator 10.

funkboy · Jun 12, 2002, 09:46 PM

Home: 90%

Work: 50%

I'll be able to do a lot more work in X once the speed is better - right now, tho, using programs like DreamWeaver and FireWorks are just plain hindering in their lack of speed.

Once I upgrade the iBook to a TiBook (or a special edition G4 iBook if the rumors are true!) and upgrade the beige G3 to a New-Cube G4 (I can dream, can't I?), then it'll be OS X 100%.

Superchicken · Jun 13, 2002, 01:22 AM

hey funk boy, with a card from Power Logix pretty soon you'll be able to make that a Ghz cube

in your dreams of course <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

Myself, I use OS 9 about 75% of the time, and 25% in OS X, but then again I've got a G3 proccessor, at 333Mhz. Soooooooo it's understandable. Not to mention all my apps are old, Fireworks 3, Dreamweaver 3, Flash 5, FreeHand 9, no cash to upgrade.
Once I get a proccessor upgrade, I might update my software with an edu discounted package

RGB · Jun 14, 2002, 01:44 PM

Home: 100% OS X
Work: Converting office to an OS X base, up to 80% for me.

Hobbes · Jun 14, 2002, 02:45 PM

OS X: 100% (Don't even have 9 installed :-)

wulf · Jun 14, 2002, 05:27 PM

home: 100%
work: 0% (although will install X soon, now that we have FCP3 and Photoshop 7)

MikeM32 · Jun 14, 2002, 05:50 PM

Home: 0% - 5% (might be more if I was running something newer).
Work: 0% (although I'm currently between jobs, they did not use OSX at all at the last two pre-press/production firms I worked in).

Mike

t_hah · Jun 15, 2002, 04:54 AM

Work: 90% OSX 10% Classic, I wish Apple got its act together on the printing issues. There is still no support for custom page sizes in OSX. How am I supposed to plot posters without drivers? I know that driver do not come from Apple, but HP cannot write plotter drivers, because OSX does not support custom paper sizes. This is what I was told.
Argh!!!

At home...100% OSX.

LOVE IT!!!!

t

Judge_Fire · Jun 15, 2002, 02:53 PM

Mac OS X : Home : 80% (Music software still in OS 9

)

Mac OS X : Work : 80% (Apple (lol) QTVR Authoring Studio and custom page size printing on the HP keeping me back, too)

J

KaptainKaya · Jun 15, 2002, 05:08 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by t_hah:
Work: 90% OSX 10% Classic, I wish Apple got its act together on the printing issues. There is still no support for custom page sizes in OSX. How am I supposed to plot posters without drivers? I know that driver do not come from Apple, but HP cannot write plotter drivers, because OSX does not support custom paper sizes. This is what I was told.
Argh!!!

At home...100% OSX.

LOVE IT!!!!

t<hr /></blockquote>I think with the licensing of CUPS, we might actually get custom paper sizes. Either that or wider printer support...I get so confused on that.

Vanquish · Jun 16, 2002, 10:15 AM

100 % OSX (I trashed OS9 this friday

)

only annoying think in OSX: no custom paper sizes.

Demonhood · Jun 16, 2002, 02:38 PM

Home: 85% (haven't bought PS 7 or FCP3 yet)
Work: 90% (haven't bought InDesign 2 or PS 7 yet)

l008com · Jun 16, 2002, 07:53 PM

Mac OS X 100% I actually just happen to have GoLive 6 and ImageReady 7 running right now. I have all the new apps. I think they are great. I never even boot classic. I love X. The only thing I have noticed is that the GUI in Adobe's new Carbon apps is very slow. It might do the work fast, but clicking menus and buttons and selecting tools and zooming, it all seems to work very slowly. Hopefully that will improve in time.

graphics84 · Jun 20, 2002, 12:45 PM

WORK 99% (GOT A G3 print server for big projects)
HOME 60% (redraw sucks on my Tibook 550 in PSD 7, gotta use OS9)

hope 10.2 kicks ass so I can go 100% @ home

chris v · Jun 22, 2002, 09:48 AM

Work: OS X 75% Classic 20% (Quark) OS 9 5% (Photoshop plug-ins that won't work in Classic)

Home OS X 90% Classic 10%. I only boot 9 at home for a few of the kid's old games, and to run TechTool and Disk Warrior.

CV

DJG3 · Jun 24, 2002, 01:02 PM

gonna wait and see how Jaguar looks b4 i finally make the switch on my home/work mac...although I do use it regularly at my IT job on campus

crystalthunder · Jun 24, 2002, 02:29 PM

Home: OS X 100%
Work: OS X 100%

The only reason Classic is installed is because it is required to install Extensis Suitcase -_-

SteveTech · Jun 24, 2002, 03:24 PM

Home 100% (got to love Photoshop and GoLive under OSX)
Work 100% (My computer, but I do Mac repair so I still see a lot of OS 9)

It hurts my eyes to boot back into OS 9 - that pain, the PAIN!!!!

ok... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

-Steve

sizzle chest · Jun 24, 2002, 06:20 PM

Until recently, Quark 4 & Photoshop 5 under classic about 50% of the time, and directly booted into OS9 the other half of the time.

After my Adobe Design Collection arrives later this week, I'll be pure X, for all my graphic work!

BobK · Jun 25, 2002, 09:58 AM

X - 110% at home, I have dropped support for OS 9 on my home network.
Work is another story, we are having problems with office for X. Microsmack raised the fee's only about 10 times. No way we can afford to buy the upgrade, so we only have about 40 out of 500 users using X.
In my opinon, X is the best upgrade I have ever seen. It is what win2k was to win98 and a whole lot more.

Jerome · Jun 25, 2002, 11:20 PM

Home : 100% OS X
Work : 100% ?%#in' Windows 2000 pro. In august, I should have a Mac but capture card drivers will be forcing me to run OS 9.

�ig� · Jul 22, 2002, 10:07 AM

0%

bootyboy · Aug 5, 2002, 06:30 PM

work and home 100% thanks to adobe. someone should tell the guys at quark that osx has arrived!

:haripu: · Aug 6, 2002, 03:10 PM

Home: 100%
Work: 100% since I left my last agency. Actually I'm trying to get my own business running - which means work is in fact O%. But that a hundred percent in OSX. :-)

scott miester · Aug 31, 2002, 07:59 PM

100% OSX since Photoshop7/Illustrator 10 came out. GoLive 6 was essential as well. I thought I was "ahead of the game" for almost 2 months, then Apple bestows "10.2" on us - now we're all behind again (or $129 poorer.)

vsurfer · Sep 3, 2002, 09:47 PM

Work 0 %

Home 85 %

Work : Notes, Photoshop, Quark, Plug-ins etc, but, more importantly waiting for Lotus Notes for OSX adoption in a highly corporate environment. Notes being the blood supply system of what is a mostly non-mac dominated corp with thousands of empls.

In above situation, with only hundreds of mac users (of all generations and genres) interfacing with print professionals it usually ends up being a move that is made when IT are so inclined, and also when the majority of staff and applications are ready, and completely adopted in the print prepress and creative pro world.

Other mac-os using co-workers are probably less inclined to adopt OSX anytime soon, meaning that date might come maybe more like 2003-2004.
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PS. I don't think Quark is so bad -- I love an app that can be so speeded up by native keyboard shortcuts. It is in Quark's interest to move in harmony with the printing end -- it has to be right or productivity, deadlines, and bottom lines will suffer in an industry that can ill afford it. InDesign can afford to push the envelope to try to get a little market share where Quark is the industry standard, and where not meeting standards can be either extremely impractical or overly costly. I'll bet Qrk will have the real OSX goods ready and fully backwards and forwards compatible, when the time is right for everyone, printers included - not just the bleeding edge.