Boy! Go to work for a while and look what you miss!
"AA", think Dwight think.
oreopoulos, glad you finally got a response you're happy with.
Lennox check your mail.
I'll still buy it, especially if as Dwight posted elsewhere it comes in around $500.
"AA", think Dwight think.
oreopoulos, glad you finally got a response you're happy with.
Lennox check your mail.
I'll still buy it, especially if as Dwight posted elsewhere it comes in around $500.
Djordje wrote:Beta versions worked as a demo when no hardware key was present. If this feature exists in the commercial version then this would be a more reliable tool for someone to choose to upgrade. No advertisement can be compared with a demo. It would also make sales guys life easier.
Guys ... I have deadlines to meet
..... the real appreciation can come only with using it.
Petros
oreopoulos wrote:If anything, 9 is not buggy. It is DEFINITELY the most stable beta I ever had the honour to test. I think it suffices to say that I managed to crash it ON PURPOSE only once?
At last teh opinion i was waiting for.
Yes Djordje. I know its not curses nor praises affair here, but stability of a version should be the first thing one should expect from every version.
We dont buy software to be buggy
oreopoulos wrote:No.
Just one question Djordje. Dont you think that implementing 15-20 more modelling stuff and postponing the release for 5-6 months is more logical?
Piling "features" is like tweaking a VW Beetle towards a Porsche. Whatever you do, in the end you still have a Beetle. Not that it is a bad thing, far from it, but you don't have a Porsche.
The productivity and work environment that has been COMPLETELY overhauled now is so important a FEATURE, especially in large companies with many users and dedicated CAD management, that it far surpasses any list of single tools or tool improvements that happened. So is DWG interface, that you might not be particularly wanting, but many fof us do.
The thing is, ArchiCAD is now more a corporate product than a one man show universal tool; that feeling is very clear, and the single practitioner out there might be a bit overwhelmend by the need to do some management if he wants all the ROI.
oreopoulos wrote:Hm ... I don't know, or at least I would not state so if I were not one of the development team.
I know from coding a lot , and i suspect the code is pretty much object oriented, so implementing functions is not too much. If the code is the old top down approach then.....
Mind you, 9 is new in a typical understated and oblique Graphisoft manner. No bells, no whistles, no frills, no icing (except LightWorks) - but oh so much quality!
oreopoulos wrote:You misunderstood me a bit
I am "glad" you are not sattisfied either, but i wish we were both delighted.
My FIRST reaction was somewhat like yours - "Oh no, 8.2345 that pretends to be 9". Then I started using it and it dawned on me. As Ben the Beta champ said, try going back to 8.1 after a time. No way!
The way is forward.
So, the bottom line:
Do NOT judge by the demos you see, the list of features, the marketing material. Upgrade, work on it. Brings the grin factor out that we forgot about during the 8 times ...
I am a crab that is never satisfied with the offering, but tend to at least try to see what the offering is all about. This is a no nonsense upgrade that addresses the real world problems, and does not pile up features, fully implemented or not, but allows you to WORK FAST AND BE PRODUCTIVE. Enough in my book.
Still looking?
