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Is X ready for office use?
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booboo
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Apr 19, 2002, 06:14 AM
 
(Amongst other things) I look after a small company's office network - I persuaded them to go the Mac route about 18 months ago and apart from a few initial teething problems, it's worked out fine. They're running (4) iMac 500's, with a G4/400 as a server. A couple of iBooks come and go...

The Mac's (OS 9.0.4) aren't as stable as the old Pentium 1's (running NT4, I think) they replace, but there have been no instances of data loss, anfd restart has always fixed any problems that have occured. (This has been the Mac equation as long as I remember...;-))

They run AppleWorks, Office and FileMaker Pro.

Question: is - and this assumes drivers are out for their Canon scanner and OKI printer - is X ready for primetime in this environment, particularly in terms of network reliability and speed?
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Apr 19, 2002, 06:46 AM
 
Yeah, they should be fine. Your OS 9 stability problem probably comes from your OS version. 9.2.2 is the latest, you should update all of the Machines even if they're not running OS X yet. I noticed that helped OS 9 stability a lot!
     
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Apr 19, 2002, 06:53 AM
 
Thx.

I hear what you're saying about 9 - but I think its stability problems are largely inherent. A freeze a day - or two on a bad day - usually in IE or Outlook Express... is this not par for the course?

Personally, I've have more problems with > 9.0.4 versions -of 9. I thought these updates were largely - or entirely - Classic fixes, anyway...?
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Apr 19, 2002, 07:02 AM
 
the later OS 9 versions do improve things in Classic in X, but they also seem to fix a lot of problems, at least for me.

As for IE and Outlook crashing -- well, look at who makes it. I never crashed once a day, though. Maybe once every 3 or so days, but not every day.

You may want to give a 9 update a shot, at least on some of the machines, and see if that happens to help them any.
     
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Apr 19, 2002, 07:06 AM
 
Originally posted by Danny Ricci:
<STRONG>the later OS 9 versions do improve things in Classic in X, but they also seem to fix a lot of problems, at least for me.

As for IE and Outlook crashing -- well, look at who makes it. I never crashed once a day, though. Maybe once every 3 or so days, but not every day.

You may want to give a 9 update a shot, at least on some of the machines, and see if that happens to help them any.</STRONG>
I run OSX and IE occassionally freezes, but you know what? I dont care, it doesnt bring the system down, and it only takes 3-4 seconds to force quit and relaunch.

Go the X route, its well worth it, particularly if your users aren't long time OS9 users, as the jump to aqua is quite jarring if you are.
     
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Apr 19, 2002, 07:27 AM
 
Originally posted by shortcipher:
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I run OSX and IE occassionally freezes, but you know what? I dont care, it doesnt bring the system down, and it only takes 3-4 seconds to force quit and relaunch.

Go the X route, its well worth it, particularly if your users aren't long time OS9 users, as the jump to aqua is quite jarring if you are.</STRONG>
I understand perfectly what you're saying about IE on X. I run X myself and IE crashed a few seconds ago. re-launch, no problem.

But my concerns are as to how robust the networking is on OS X. There have been threads about X just dropping connections and restarts being necessary.

Has anyone any experience of how well 10.1.3 is running simple TCP/IP networks, including running non-server version FileMakerPro across the network?
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Apr 19, 2002, 07:33 AM
 
Originally posted by booboo:
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But my concerns are as to how robust the networking is on OS X. There have been threads about X just dropping connections and restarts being necessary.

Has anyone any experience of how well 10.1.3 is running simple TCP/IP networks, including running non-server version FileMakerPro across the network?</STRONG>
I have had absolutely no dropping of connections to our Win2k server or Linux server. I use X quite heavily as a sys admin in a small company of 100 users. I use FileMaker Pro too, without any problems. I don't know where you heard about X dropping TCP/IP connections, but I have never seen it.
     
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Apr 19, 2002, 07:47 AM
 
Re:Is X ready for office use?

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Apr 19, 2002, 07:50 AM
 
Originally posted by SMacTech:
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I have had absolutely no dropping of connections to our Win2k server or Linux server. I use X quite heavily as a sys admin in a small company of 100 users. I use FileMaker Pro too, without any problems. I don't know where you heard about X dropping TCP/IP connections, but I have never seen it.</STRONG>
Thanks - you've put my mind at rest.
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Apr 19, 2002, 09:50 AM
 
Originally posted by SMacTech:
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I don't know where you heard about X dropping TCP/IP connections, but I have never seen it.</STRONG>
I think that's a reference to dial-up internet connections and not network connections. I think I 've heard of a few dial-up internet (TCP/IP) connection problems.
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Apr 19, 2002, 12:46 PM
 
x is unuseable for me at the moment due to alcatel's incompetence not apple..

adsl usb modem bug still not fixed @ apr 02.. !

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