universal blues
Thursday, August 31st, 2006I’ve been using a 13 inch macintel macbook for a while now, and while it’s a very nice little machine (her name is Tomoyo, btw, and yes it’s one of the black ones) there is one problem with her - she really don’t run non-universal programs very well (for those of you who aren’t mac-heads, the switch to intel based chips in the new macs means that in order to run optimally, programs need to be revised and made ‘universal‘ to run well in the Macintel environment) Yes, they run, but once you start a non-universal program on your system, there is a very, very noticeable ‘hang’ that happens quite often when you are using various programs.
Lucilly, most of what i use (BBedit, Omni Outliner, Mail, FireFox, etc) have long been converted. Other programs like Photoshop, Excel, etc, have yet to be converted. Photoshop makes the machine incredibly sluggish (especially when switching between programs) but Excel runs ok and doesn’t seem to cause the same hang problems. I don’t use Photoshop much on my laptop, so its not a huge deal. There is one program i do use a lot and it seems to make things as sluggish as photoshop: Ecto, my favortiest blogging software ever.
I know that Aadrian is working on it, and i am looking forward to the completely re-vamped version, but I’ve come to the point that i am going to have to use something else until the universal version is done. After beating my head on the table (and getting some help from Hawk this morning) i was able to get MarsEdit up and running (in fact, this is kind of a test post to make sure that it doesn’t blow up my site). It’s definitely not as nice as ecto, but it will do the job until the Ecto team finishes up that universal version. Please hurry guys, i miss Ecto already
