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GraphicConverter Classic
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Version: 6.5
Can't keep up!
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: Klaus1 Sunday, May 09 2004 @ 03:44 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOS
Used Product For: Over One Year
Recommend Product: YES
Not "one of the best" shareware products for the Mac, it is THE best! But these updates are, IMHO, coming too frequently, particularly for us poor slobs with dial-up! Would every other month not be sufficient?
Comments
Can't keep up! - Macsure
Hi,Be assured, with the pace of upgrades for not only GC but OS X itself, NO ONE is keeping up very well. :-)
As you know, when OS X is upgraded, this starts a ripple of 3rd party app upgrades. Altogether, it consumes a lot of hours (and some added expense)
for each Mac owner. Depending - developing a little resistane to the idea that we "gotta have the latest" helped me quite a bit.
For example, I waited until Jaguar reached 10.2.6 before buying a new Mac, until then I'd run an iMac DV with 9.1. I waited about a year before even thinking of moving to Panther, and looked over the Apple forums for hours beforehand. So I jumped from 10.2.8 to 10.3.4 at that time (on my eMac).
I was equally slow with Panther and stopped at 10.3.6 with COMPLETE satisfaction - FOR MY NEEDS.
I've owned licensed GraphicConverter since around v. 3.8. I don't jump on every upgrade (as you say, very hard to do practically). I wait and run a release or two "behind" until it's convenient for me to download, install and "proof test" the latest release. So I advise... just relax unless you NEED some feature of any software or OS badly enough to justify all the time spent.
regards
Saturday, August 20 2005 @ 04:52 PM PDT
Can't keep up! - Macsure
Hi,Be assured, with the pace of upgrades for not only GC but OS X itself, NO ONE is keeping up very well. :-)
As you know, when OS X is upgraded, this starts a ripple of 3rd party app upgrades. Altogether, it consumes a lot of hours (and some added expense)
for each Mac owner. Depending - developing a little resistane to the idea that we "gotta have the latest" helped me quite a bit.
For example, I waited until Jaguar reached 10.2.6 before buying a new Mac, until then I'd run an iMac DV with 9.1. I waited about a year before even thinking of moving to Panther, and looked over the Apple forums for hours beforehand. So I jumped from 10.2.8 to 10.3.4 at that time (on my eMac).
I was equally slow with Panther and stopped at 10.3.6 with COMPLETE satisfaction - FOR MY NEEDS.
I've owned licensed GraphicConverter since around v. 3.8. I don't jump on every upgrade (as you say, very hard to do practically). I wait and run a release or two "behind" until it's convenient for me to download, install and "proof test" the latest release. So I advise... just relax unless you NEED some feature of any software or OS badly enough to justify all the time spent.
regards
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Saturday, August 20 2005 @ 04:32 PM PDT