RE: Soliciting hardware recommendations
Hi, If you get an Intel Core 2 Duo (or Core 2 Quad) system, running at 2.6GHz or higher, with 4GB of DDR2 RAM and 7200rpm drives (RAID 0 might be a bit of overkill but easy enough to do), Windows Vista Business 64-bit, and something like an nVidia 9600GT card or better, you will have *more* than enough power to run FrameMaker with excellent performance. This should cost under $1000 or so ... depending on the other options you want on it. Of course you can continue to use a Mac system. Only a correction regarding Vista 64 bit. As far as I know FrameMaker does not run on 64 bit Vista. That was posted here several times. Best regards Winfried ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Soliciting hardware recommendations
FrameMaker certainly does run on Vista 64-bit and runs exceptionally well! I ran FrameMaker 8 and now FrameMaker 9 in that environment without any problem whatsoever. What is true is that FrameMaker is a 32-bit application. Vista 64-bit runs 32-bit applications without a problem in 32-bit mode. What you do gain running a program like FrameMaker under Vista 64-bit is the ability of support much larger amounts of real memory (I run with 8 gigabytes) and thus run the risk of less paging activity to kill performance when running multiple applications concurrently! Also, I have found Vista 64-bit to be rock solid, running for weeks on end without reboots; my only reboots being necessary for the monthly Patch Tuesday Microsoft OS updates. - Dov -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Reng, Dr. Winfried Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:28 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Soliciting hardware recommendations Hi, If you get an Intel Core 2 Duo (or Core 2 Quad) system, running at 2.6GHz or higher, with 4GB of DDR2 RAM and 7200rpm drives (RAID 0 might be a bit of overkill but easy enough to do), Windows Vista Business 64-bit, and something like an nVidia 9600GT card or better, you will have *more* than enough power to run FrameMaker with excellent performance. This should cost under $1000 or so ... depending on the other options you want on it. Of course you can continue to use a Mac system. Only a correction regarding Vista 64 bit. As far as I know FrameMaker does not run on 64 bit Vista. That was posted here several times. Best regards Winfried ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Soliciting hardware recommendations
If you get an Intel Core 2 Duo (or Core 2 Quad) system, running at 2.6GHz or higher, with 4GB of DDR2 RAM and 7200rpm drives (RAID 0 might be a bit of overkill but easy enough to do), Windows Vista Business 64-bit, and something like an nVidia 9600GT card or better, you will have *more* than enough power to run FrameMaker with excellent performance. This should cost under $1000 or so ... depending on the other options you want on it. Of course you can continue to use a Mac system. Only a correction regarding Vista 64 bit. As far as I know FrameMaker does not run on 64 bit Vista. That was posted here several times. Hmmm .. I have not seen that posted before. It is not an issue as far as I am concerned. I have FrameMaker 8.0 running fine under Vista 64-bit and now using it on Windows 7 64-bit without any problems either. Z ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Soliciting hardware recommendations
Hi, > If you get an Intel Core 2 Duo (or Core 2 Quad) system, running at > 2.6GHz or higher, with 4GB of DDR2 RAM and 7200rpm drives > (RAID 0 might > be a bit of overkill but easy enough to do), Windows Vista Business > 64-bit, and something like an nVidia 9600GT card or better, you will > have *more* than enough power to run FrameMaker with excellent > performance. This should cost under $1000 or so ... depending on the > other options you want on it. Of course you can continue to use a Mac system. Only a correction regarding Vista 64 bit. As far as I know FrameMaker does not run on 64 bit Vista. That was posted here several times. Best regards Winfried
Soliciting hardware recommendations
FrameMaker certainly does run on Vista 64-bit and runs exceptionally well! I ran FrameMaker 8 and now FrameMaker 9 in that environment without any problem whatsoever. What is true is that FrameMaker is a 32-bit application. Vista 64-bit runs 32-bit applications without a problem in 32-bit mode. What you do gain running a program like FrameMaker under Vista 64-bit is the ability of support much larger amounts of real memory (I run with 8 gigabytes) and thus run the risk of less paging activity to kill performance when running multiple applications concurrently! Also, I have found Vista 64-bit to be rock solid, running for weeks on end without reboots; my only reboots being necessary for the monthly "Patch Tuesday" Microsoft OS updates. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at > lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of > Reng, Dr. Winfried > Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:28 AM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: RE: Soliciting hardware recommendations > > Hi, > > > If you get an Intel Core 2 Duo (or Core 2 Quad) system, running at > > 2.6GHz or higher, with 4GB of DDR2 RAM and 7200rpm drives > > (RAID 0 might > > be a bit of overkill but easy enough to do), Windows Vista Business > > 64-bit, and something like an nVidia 9600GT card or better, you will > > have *more* than enough power to run FrameMaker with excellent > > performance. This should cost under $1000 or so ... depending on the > > other options you want on it. > > Of course you can continue to use a Mac system. > Only a correction regarding Vista 64 bit. As far > as I know FrameMaker does not run on 64 bit Vista. > That was posted here several times. > > Best regards > > Winfried
Soliciting hardware recommendations
>> If you get an Intel Core 2 Duo (or Core 2 Quad) system, running at >> 2.6GHz or higher, with 4GB of DDR2 RAM and 7200rpm drives >> (RAID 0 might >> be a bit of overkill but easy enough to do), Windows Vista Business >> 64-bit, and something like an nVidia 9600GT card or better, you will >> have *more* than enough power to run FrameMaker with excellent >> performance. This should cost under $1000 or so ... depending on the >> other options you want on it. > Of course you can continue to use a Mac system. > Only a correction regarding Vista 64 bit. As far > as I know FrameMaker does not run on 64 bit Vista. > That was posted here several times. Hmmm .. I have not seen that posted before. It is not an issue as far as I am concerned. I have FrameMaker 8.0 running fine under Vista 64-bit and now using it on Windows 7 64-bit without any problems either. Z
Soliciting hardware recommendations
Penny wise and pound foolish... As a Mac diehard, I resisted buying a Windows machine for a very long time. And then I bought a machine cobbled together by a neighbor, a self-described computer expert. Bad idea. I have serious intermittent problems creating PDFs from within FrameMaker. About half the time, FM crashes when it hits a particular page. The page in question changes from day to day, sometimes from minute to minute. It isn't FM or the files -- they work fine on other machines. So it must be my custom computer. Time to get a real Windows box. I'm looking for a desktop machine, not a laptop. Must be able to accommodate two 22 monitors. Can you recommend anything? Many thank, --D Reynolds ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Soliciting hardware recommendations
Hi D... I assume that you've tried running FM using Fusion on your Mac, and that wasn't sufficient? I just started messing with this on a Mac Mini using Fusion 2 .. I've got XP and Vista (and Ubuntu) running as virtualizations, with FM7.2, 8, and 9 (among other things), and all seems good to me. I need to do a lot more testing to be sure, but I'm ready to ditch my Windows system entirely, if it all pans out. Fusion is great .. you can even run the Windows application windows along side of Mac apps and copy+paste between them. You can also add the Windows apps to the dock and launch them like Mac apps. Seems like the ideal situation to me. Granted .. I've just started messing with this and there may be some serious problems that I'm overlooking. I'd love to hear if others have gone this direction. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 D L Reynolds wrote: Penny wise and pound foolish... As a Mac diehard, I resisted buying a Windows machine for a very long time. And then I bought a machine cobbled together by a neighbor, a self-described computer expert. Bad idea. I have serious intermittent problems creating PDFs from within FrameMaker. About half the time, FM crashes when it hits a particular page. The page in question changes from day to day, sometimes from minute to minute. It isn't FM or the files -- they work fine on other machines. So it must be my custom computer. Time to get a real Windows box. I'm looking for a desktop machine, not a laptop. Must be able to accommodate two 22 monitors. Can you recommend anything? Many thank, --D Reynolds ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Soliciting hardware recommendations
Keep in mind that it is not necessarily obvious that the home-brew system is at fault. It may simply be a matter of re-installing the OS and applications if it is not too old a machine. What is the system motherboard, how much memory does it have, what are the drives, how old is it, what OS ... those may have specific relevance. If your Mac is Intel-chip based, have you considered running Windows under MacOS (using one of the programs on the market for this purpose)? This may allow you to run FrameMaker and Acrobat in Windows on your Mac hardware. Separately, most of the Dell and Lenova and HP mid- to high-end desktop systems will work fine for your needs. Their web-site configurators will provide you the information. The issue to keep in mind is that a good mid-range graphics cards will be important, particularly one with dual DVI connectors, and lots of separate graphics memory (i.e., not using main memory like the graphics chipsets on the motherboards). If you get an Intel Core 2 Duo (or Core 2 Quad) system, running at 2.6GHz or higher, with 4GB of DDR2 RAM and 7200rpm drives (RAID 0 might be a bit of overkill but easy enough to do), Windows Vista Business 64-bit, and something like an nVidia 9600GT card or better, you will have *more* than enough power to run FrameMaker with excellent performance. This should cost under $1000 or so ... depending on the other options you want on it. If you want more performance than pick one of the Intel i7 systems, (the 920 or 940 based). Z -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of D L Reynolds Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 9:20 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Soliciting hardware recommendations Penny wise and pound foolish... As a Mac diehard, I resisted buying a Windows machine for a very long time. And then I bought a machine cobbled together by a neighbor, a self-described computer expert. Bad idea. I have serious intermittent problems creating PDFs from within FrameMaker. About half the time, FM crashes when it hits a particular page. The page in question changes from day to day, sometimes from minute to minute. It isn't FM or the files -- they work fine on other machines. So it must be my custom computer. Time to get a real Windows box. I'm looking for a desktop machine, not a laptop. Must be able to accommodate two 22 monitors. Can you recommend anything? Many thank, --D Reynolds ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as syed.hos...@aeris.net. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/syed.hosain%40aeris. net Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Soliciting hardware recommendations
First of all, you folks are the best. Within minutes of posting, I was getting helpful responses. Some of you have suggested I run Windows on my beloved Mac. I've been hesitant to do that, fearful that it might be buggy or cranky in some way. From what I'm hearing, that isn't the case. So, one last question -- Are any of you running the Adobe Technical Communications Suite on a Mac VMWare Fusion Windows XP? I'd love to go this route if it's reliable. And if I get reports that TCS is stable in this environment, the Windows box is heading for the dumpster. (For the record, I'm still running FM8 and will be for the foreseeable future.) Again, most sincere thanks to all of you. You are amazing! --Donna Reynolds ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Soliciting hardware recommendations
I am running TCS in VMWare Fusion on a 2.8 GHz Mac. It works great. Rock solid. Crashes less than most pure Windows machines I've used. In fact, I don't think Windows has ever crashed. Frame has a few times, but the patches fixed that. You can try most of this before making a commitment. You can download a 30-day trial of Fusion and obtain a 30-day trial of TCS (DVD). You do have to buy a Windows XP license. I just bought one at Fry's. The process to create a VM and load Windows is pretty simple. I work on-site at my client's. I bring in my laptop, hook up to the client's network. It was a bit of a hassle configuring printers, but other than that I haven't had any problems. I connect to shared drives, point my Mac Mail client at their Exchange server. I don't have great calendaring ability, but I don't want to buy Office for Windows, and I don't want to mess with Entourage. Jenny On Jul 14, 2009, at 9:54 AM, D L Reynolds wrote: First of all, you folks are the best. Within minutes of posting, I was getting helpful responses. Some of you have suggested I run Windows on my beloved Mac. I've been hesitant to do that, fearful that it might be buggy or cranky in some way. From what I'm hearing, that isn't the case. So, one last question -- Are any of you running the Adobe Technical Communications Suite on a Mac VMWare Fusion Windows XP? I'd love to go this route if it's reliable. And if I get reports that TCS is stable in this environment, the Windows box is heading for the dumpster. (For the record, I'm still running FM8 and will be for the foreseeable future.) Again, most sincere thanks to all of you. You are amazing! --Donna Reynolds ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as jgreenl...@mac.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/jgreenleaf%40mac.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Soliciting hardware recommendations
Lots o' marketing to wade through: http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/compatibility.html There are other ways to do this (Wine), but Parallels is plug-and-play: http://parallels-desktop.for-mac.com/ ...Kelly. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of D L Reynolds Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 11:54 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Soliciting hardware recommendations First of all, you folks are the best. Within minutes of posting, I was getting helpful responses. Some of you have suggested I run Windows on my beloved Mac. I've been hesitant to do that, fearful that it might be buggy or cranky in some way. From what I'm hearing, that isn't the case. So, one last question -- Are any of you running the Adobe Technical Communications Suite on a Mac VMWare Fusion Windows XP? I'd love to go this route if it's reliable. And if I get reports that TCS is stable in this environment, the Windows box is heading for the dumpster. (For the record, I'm still running FM8 and will be for the foreseeable future.) Again, most sincere thanks to all of you. You are amazing! --Donna Reynolds ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as kmcdan...@pavtech.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/kmcdaniel%40pavtech. com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Soliciting hardware recommendations
Lots o' marketing to wade through: http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/compatibility.html There are other ways to do this (Wine), but Parallels is plug-and-play: http://parallels-desktop.for-mac.com/ As a Parallels user, I'd say try VMware Fusion. Parallels works, and Windows/Frame/Acrobat seem happy as little clams, but every now and then dragging a file from OSX to Windows or vice-versa completely hangs Parallels. Plus it has difficulties recognizing peripherals plugged in after Windows has been launched. tori ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Soliciting hardware recommendations
Penny wise and pound foolish... As a Mac diehard, I resisted buying a Windows machine for a very long time. And then I bought a machine cobbled together by a neighbor, a self-described "computer expert." Bad idea. I have serious intermittent problems creating PDFs from within FrameMaker. About half the time, FM crashes when it hits a particular page. The page in question changes from day to day, sometimes from minute to minute. It isn't FM or the files -- they work fine on other machines. So it must be my "custom" computer. Time to get a real Windows box. I'm looking for a desktop machine, not a laptop. Must be able to accommodate two 22" monitors. Can you recommend anything? Many thank, --D Reynolds
Soliciting hardware recommendations
Hi D... I assume that you've tried running FM using Fusion on your Mac, and that wasn't sufficient? I just started messing with this on a Mac Mini using Fusion 2 .. I've got XP and Vista (and Ubuntu) running as virtualizations, with FM7.2, 8, and 9 (among other things), and all seems good to me. I need to do a lot more testing to be sure, but I'm ready to ditch my Windows system entirely, if it all pans out. Fusion is great .. you can even run the Windows application windows along side of Mac apps and copy+paste between them. You can also add the Windows apps to the dock and launch them like Mac apps. Seems like the ideal situation to me. Granted .. I've just started messing with this and there may be some serious problems that I'm overlooking. I'd love to hear if others have gone this direction. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 D L Reynolds wrote: > Penny wise and pound foolish... > > As a Mac diehard, I resisted buying a Windows machine for a very long > time. And then I bought a machine cobbled together by a neighbor, a > self-described "computer expert." Bad idea. I have serious > intermittent problems creating PDFs from within FrameMaker. About > half the time, FM crashes when it hits a particular page. The page in > question changes from day to day, sometimes from minute to minute. It > isn't FM or the files -- they work fine on other machines. So it must > be my "custom" computer. Time to get a real Windows box. > > I'm looking for a desktop machine, not a laptop. Must be able to > accommodate two 22" monitors. Can you recommend anything? > > Many thank, > > --D Reynolds > > >
Soliciting hardware recommendations
Keep in mind that it is not necessarily obvious that the home-brew system is at fault. It may simply be a matter of re-installing the OS and applications if it is not too old a machine. What is the system motherboard, how much memory does it have, what are the drives, how old is it, what OS ... those may have specific relevance. If your Mac is Intel-chip based, have you considered running Windows under MacOS (using one of the programs on the market for this purpose)? This may allow you to run FrameMaker and Acrobat in Windows on your Mac hardware. Separately, most of the Dell and Lenova and HP mid- to high-end desktop systems will work fine for your needs. Their web-site configurators will provide you the information. The issue to keep in mind is that a good mid-range graphics cards will be important, particularly one with dual DVI connectors, and lots of separate graphics memory (i.e., not using main memory like the graphics chipsets on the motherboards). If you get an Intel Core 2 Duo (or Core 2 Quad) system, running at 2.6GHz or higher, with 4GB of DDR2 RAM and 7200rpm drives (RAID 0 might be a bit of overkill but easy enough to do), Windows Vista Business 64-bit, and something like an nVidia 9600GT card or better, you will have *more* than enough power to run FrameMaker with excellent performance. This should cost under $1000 or so ... depending on the other options you want on it. If you want more performance than pick one of the Intel i7 systems, (the 920 or 940 based). Z -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of D L Reynolds Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 9:20 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Soliciting hardware recommendations Penny wise and pound foolish... As a Mac diehard, I resisted buying a Windows machine for a very long time. And then I bought a machine cobbled together by a neighbor, a self-described "computer expert." Bad idea. I have serious intermittent problems creating PDFs from within FrameMaker. About half the time, FM crashes when it hits a particular page. The page in question changes from day to day, sometimes from minute to minute. It isn't FM or the files -- they work fine on other machines. So it must be my "custom" computer. Time to get a real Windows box. I'm looking for a desktop machine, not a laptop. Must be able to accommodate two 22" monitors. Can you recommend anything? Many thank, --D Reynolds ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as Syed.Hosain at aeris.net. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/syed.hosain%40aeris. net Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Soliciting hardware recommendations
First of all, you folks are the best. Within minutes of posting, I was getting helpful responses. Some of you have suggested I run Windows on my beloved Mac. I've been hesitant to do that, fearful that it might be buggy or cranky in some way. From what I'm hearing, that isn't the case. So, one last question -- Are any of you running the Adobe Technical Communications Suite on a Mac > VMWare Fusion > Windows XP? I'd love to go this route if it's reliable. And if I get reports that TCS is stable in this environment, the Windows box is heading for the dumpster. (For the record, I'm still running FM8 and will be for the foreseeable future.) Again, most sincere thanks to all of you. You are amazing! --Donna Reynolds
Soliciting hardware recommendations
I am running TCS in VMWare Fusion on a 2.8 GHz Mac. It works great. Rock solid. Crashes less than most pure Windows machines I've used. In fact, I don't think Windows has ever crashed. Frame has a few times, but the patches fixed that. You can try most of this before making a commitment. You can download a 30-day trial of Fusion and obtain a 30-day trial of TCS (DVD). You do have to buy a Windows XP license. I just bought one at Fry's. The process to create a VM and load Windows is pretty simple. I work on-site at my client's. I bring in my laptop, hook up to the client's network. It was a bit of a hassle configuring printers, but other than that I haven't had any problems. I connect to shared drives, point my Mac Mail client at their Exchange server. I don't have great calendaring ability, but I don't want to buy Office for Windows, and I don't want to mess with Entourage. Jenny On Jul 14, 2009, at 9:54 AM, D L Reynolds wrote: > First of all, you folks are the best. Within minutes of posting, I > was getting helpful responses. > > Some of you have suggested I run Windows on my beloved Mac. I've been > hesitant to do that, fearful that it might be buggy or cranky in some > way. From what I'm hearing, that isn't the case. So, one last > question -- > > Are any of you running the Adobe Technical Communications Suite on a > Mac > VMWare Fusion > Windows XP? I'd love to go this route if it's > reliable. And if I get reports that TCS is stable in this > environment, the Windows box is heading for the dumpster. (For the > record, I'm still running FM8 and will be for the foreseeable future.) > > Again, most sincere thanks to all of you. You are amazing! > >--Donna Reynolds > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as jgreenleaf at mac.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/jgreenleaf%40mac.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
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Hi, Donna: You can postpone buying Windows by installing Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 public beta. I'm using this with Fusion 2 and TCS2 on a 2.4gHz MacBook Pro running OS X 10.5.7 (latest update to "Leopard") No significant problems in FM 9.x and Acrobat 9.x in the TCS2. Initially I had problems with screen rewriting. Mostly this was due to setting the Fusion memory amount higher than needed (1.0 GB seems sufficient), and also not having enough system RAM; I had 3 GB, which left only 2 GB for the Mac OS. Replacing my 1 GB RAM chip with a 2 GB chip from Other World Computing for around $30, gave back 3 GB for for Mac OS X, and retained 1 GB for Fusion 2. Jenny: you might want to look at Google's Calendar. HTH Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Jenny Greenleaf wrote: > I am running TCS in VMWare Fusion on a 2.8 GHz Mac. It works great. > Rock solid. Crashes less than most pure Windows machines I've used. In > fact, I don't think Windows has ever crashed. Frame has a few times, > but the patches fixed that. > > You can try most of this before making a commitment. You can download > a 30-day trial of Fusion and obtain a 30-day trial of TCS (DVD). You > do have to buy a Windows XP license. I just bought one at Fry's. The > process to create a VM and load Windows is pretty simple. > > I work on-site at my client's. I bring in my laptop, hook up to the > client's network. It was a bit of a hassle configuring printers, but > other than that I haven't had any problems. ?I connect to shared > drives, point my Mac Mail client at their Exchange server. I don't > have great calendaring ability, but I don't want to buy Office for > Windows, and I don't want to mess with Entourage. > > Jenny > > > > On Jul 14, 2009, at 9:54 AM, D L Reynolds wrote: > >> First of all, you folks are the best. Within minutes of posting, I >> was getting helpful responses. >> >> Some of you have suggested I run Windows on my beloved Mac. I've been >> hesitant to do that, fearful that it might be buggy or cranky in some >> way. From what I'm hearing, that isn't the case. So, one last >> question -- >> >> Are any of you running the Adobe Technical Communications Suite on a >> Mac > VMWare Fusion > Windows XP? I'd love to go this route if it's >> reliable. And if I get reports that TCS is stable in this >> environment, the Windows box is heading for the dumpster. (For the >> record, I'm still running FM8 and will be for the foreseeable future.) >> >> Again, most sincere thanks to all of you. You are amazing! >> >> ? ?--Donna Reynolds >> ___
Soliciting hardware recommendations
Lots o' marketing to wade through: http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/compatibility.html There are other ways to do this (Wine), but Parallels is plug-and-play: http://parallels-desktop.for-mac.com/ ...Kelly. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of D L Reynolds Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 11:54 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Soliciting hardware recommendations First of all, you folks are the best. Within minutes of posting, I was getting helpful responses. Some of you have suggested I run Windows on my beloved Mac. I've been hesitant to do that, fearful that it might be buggy or cranky in some way. From what I'm hearing, that isn't the case. So, one last question -- Are any of you running the Adobe Technical Communications Suite on a Mac > VMWare Fusion > Windows XP? I'd love to go this route if it's reliable. And if I get reports that TCS is stable in this environment, the Windows box is heading for the dumpster. (For the record, I'm still running FM8 and will be for the foreseeable future.) Again, most sincere thanks to all of you. You are amazing! --Donna Reynolds ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as kmcdaniel at pavtech.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/kmcdaniel%40pavtech. com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Soliciting hardware recommendations
> Lots o' marketing to wade through: > http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/compatibility.html > > There are other ways to do this (Wine), but Parallels is plug-and-play: > http://parallels-desktop.for-mac.com/ As a Parallels user, I'd say try VMware Fusion. Parallels works, and Windows/Frame/Acrobat seem happy as little clams, but every now and then dragging a file from OSX to Windows or vice-versa completely hangs Parallels. Plus it has difficulties recognizing peripherals plugged in after Windows has been launched. tori
