Re: FLASH: RAM Alotted to Flash [OT]

[Frederico]

On 7/21/00 7:52 AM Mountain Time, Helen Triolo via

designeri-technica [dot] com

, said:


>Do you really have to worry about all

>that er, fillintheblank, to get Flash to run on a Mac?  


No, not typically at all. If it were the case, we'd see "Why is Flash 

getting OOM errors?" everyday on this list, rather than the once every 

three or four months.


Very occasionally someone runs their poor Mac into the dirt, or tries to 

overstuff it with too many files on too little space; it takes but five 

minutes to fix such things, most of the time. (not counting the 

Dot-Oh-My! versions of MMware that have bugs to be resolved; but that's 

true on any platform)


If one takes an extra few minutes to properly configure the Mac for Flash 

and graphics design in general, such errors are almost assuredly not 

going to happen at all.  

<http://sciencequest.org/support/computers/mac/config.html>


And, not to start the inevitable flame war (he says while knowing there's 

nothing to stop it if he posts this portion), but the Mac is ultimately 

easier to maintain, configure and restore in the event the worst happens. 

Our Macs, for example, have what we call 'Cascade Systems' (free with 

every Mac), which will kick in automatically or may be selected if 

anything goes wonky or all-out catastrophy strikes; allowing the 

would-otherwise-be-frustrated artist� to simply Restart to a perfectly 

fresh System and keep working, then let the IT staff come fix things 

after the project ships. Most of the same Macs also have a fully 

automated reapir/restore script such that 99% of the time, one mouse 

click prevents the need for an IT at all.


Go ahead, order that rippin' tearin' Dual G4-500 Processor Mac; I'll show 

you how to set it up, and you can see what AltiVec really does for Flash 

and related work. Then when OS X and Flash 5 roll along in a couple 

months, you'll really tear it up.


I'm rewriting the Apple Buyer's Guide right now; we always do a special 

section for application/task-specific configurations; and this time 

around we're going to make it free to the public, rather than charge for 

it as part of our consultancy fees. I'll post the URL when it's ready. 


Cheers


Frederico



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