Op 21 apr 2008, om 22:46 heeft Frederik Ramm het volgende geschreven: > Hi,
Hi Frederik, > > > for an upcoming OSM booth we have the offer of a local Apple dealer > to supply us with all the hardware we want (including 30"+ displays > and all). These would, however, be out-of-the-box Macs with those > funny keyboards and those mice without buttons you know... and they > wouldn't even let us pop an Ubuntu CD in and install a proper OS ;-) That's very nice. > > > My question to the Mac users out there: Will those Macs be suitable > for demonstrating all important aspects of OSM, i.e. > > * Slippy Map (heard rumours that it runs sub-optimal on Safari, > always loading tiles for all layers instead of current only?) I just compared FF2 and Safari 3.1.1 using http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.3977&lon=4.8929&zoom=12&layers=B0FT FF2 does 195 requests, Safari 174. Safari actually performs better. I did not do extensive testing, but with a clean cache Safari loads the above page about a second and a half faster than FF2. > > * JOSM (especially concerned about usability with 1 button mouse) That is indeed horrible. Recent Macs are supplied with a two-button mouse though. Well - it's actually still one physical surface, but left and right clicks are detected. I would recommend connecting any regular mouse though, because the scroll 'wheel' (it's actually a little ball) is nasty. > > * Potlatch It...Works. Expect hiccups now and then. Flash is slower on Macs than on Windows. Even recent Macs suffer. I have a MacBook Pro 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo and I regularly have to wait 1sec+ for Potlatch to react to user input after it stalls. > > * ...? You could of course install Windows on them ;) Or Ubuntu / Debian / Whatever in a VM. I run Windows, Ubuntu and Mac OSX all at the same time with no problems at all. > > > Or will I have to install countless helpers, utilities and control > panels? No. Only thing I'd recommend is putting this: #!/bin/bash java -jar -Xmx256M -XX:MaxPermSize=256M /Applications/josm-latest.jar in ~/Library/Scripts/JOSM.sh (chmod 0755) and enabling the script menu through the AppleScript Utility (included in Leopard) for easy access to JOSM. > > > I would like to accept the offer but if I end up endlessly tuning > those machines to act like normal computers then I'd rather opt for > run-down but working Linux boxes from the community instead of the > shiny Macs. Is there no-one with hands-on Mac experience that can lend a hand? You wouldn't want to turn down those 30" screens :) Good luck! -- martijn van exel -+- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -+- http://www.schaaltreinen.nl/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
