Re: FLASH: OT: Win98 or Win NT4 or Win 2000 for Flash work station ????

[Mats Persson]

London, 16 June 2000 at 7.05 am


Tim,


I think we all know that most computer systems are stable until you install

that/those offending apps that messes up the whole thing.


I've got a Powerbook G3 and a Blue & White G3 running Mac OS 8.6. Both are

generally very stable and reliable, but a few months ago I  tried out

various apps, MP3 rippers, TechTools, etc. and stability went out the window

on my PB G3.  The B&W G3 is still chugging along in a 'crash free zone' day

in and day out! (Touch wood ! :P )


As for commenting on the G4's 'instability' I think you're off the mark

there. The G4 is a hardware product.  The culprit - I am sure - is Mac OS

9.xx and its various bugs and problems.  Apple have unfortunately joined the

vapourware, marketing hype B-S circus started by Billy boy and M$, instead

of concentrating its resources on product quality.


But then they are working hard on Mac OS X, so maybe that's the reason

behind OS 9's weaknesses.



As for Win2K, so far I've only heard 'bad' views of it from a wide range of

trustworthy sources, so I'll leave that one alone until SP 8 is released (if

ever). (63,000 documented bugs ?!! Is someone taking the piss out of its

customers, or what ??!!)



The perceived advantage with a high spec PC (with a large HD) is that I can

install BE OS and Linux on it as well, while I wait for Mac OS X to be

ported officially (or unofficially) to the PC side.


just my 0.01 cents worth of views


regards


Mats



> I had used flash on NT4 SP4-6 and it never gave me any trouble out of the

> ordinary.

> 

> I wont mention the brand new G4's running flash (with the mac update) that

> crash three times a day :)



>

From: Tim Allan <Tim [dot] AllanSwish [dot] com [dot] au>

>

Reply-To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 12:56:24 +1000

>

To: "'flasherchinwag [dot] com'" <flasherchinwag [dot] com>

> Subject: RE: FLASH: OT: Win98 or Win NT4 or Win 2000 for Flash work statio n

> ????

> 

> I had used flash on NT4 SP4-6 and it never gave me any trouble out of the

> ordinary.

> 

> I wont mention the brand new G4's running flash (with the mac update) that

> crash three times a day :)

> 

> Tim

> 

> -----Original Message-----

>

From: Michael Greenberg [macmikeatl [dot] mindspring [dot] com (mailto:macmikeatl [dot] mindspring [dot] com)]

> Sent: Thursday, 15 June 2000 11:20 PM

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: Re: FLASH: OT: Win98 or Win NT4 or Win 2000 for Flash work

> station ????

> 

> 

> Well Mats....

> 

> I run Flash mostly on the Mac but I do use it on Wintel when demoing or to

> use Swish and one thing I have noticed is that I get the "Blue Screen of the

> Death" using NT 4.0 SP6.

> 

> I won't get into how I never have probs on my Blue and White G3:)

> 

> Michael

> 

>

> From: Mats Persson <matsimediatec [dot] co [dot] uk>

>

> Reply-To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

>> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 07:33:36 +0100

>

> To: <flasherchinwag [dot] com>

>> Subject: FLASH: OT: Win98 or Win NT4 or Win 2000 for Flash work station

> ????

>> 

>> London, 14 June 2000 at 9.30 am

>> 

>> Dear All,

>> 

>> Yes, believe it or not, but the day has arrived and I am switching to the

>> 'evil empire' of the PC world. Just ordered my hi spec AMD Athlon beast

> and

>> I'm looking forward to it !!!!!!!

>> 

>> Being a virtual 'virgin' in the PC world, I'm on a crash course in setting

>> up the ** best possible Flash development work station.**

>> 

>> With all your experience, should I go for Win 98 (installed) or NT 4 or

> even

>> Win 2000 if I want to run all the flash extras from Swifttools etc. ???

>> 

>> Any comments, feedback, news, information, recommended software tools

> would

>> be greatly appreciated.

>> 

>> 

>> Regards,

>> 

>> Mats

>

> matsimediatec [dot] co [dot] uk

>> 



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