Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Archicad?

[Anonymous]

Can anyone from G_soft say anything assuring about AC11 working under the about-to-be-released Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard?

[__archiben]

ejrolon wrote:
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ah - well that's ok. i thought that there would be some horrible false-perspective side-shelf thing going on! thanks . . .

ben

[Rex Maximilian]

Actually my Skype works fine in Leopard.

Also you can have multiple Safari windows (or any app windows) in separate spaces. You just need to drag a window to a different space.

You can disable spaces as well.

Basically spaces is nothing more than a fancy way to tell the Finder to hide an app or a window. It doesn't get to much more complex than that, so most everything works.

[__archiben]

Rex wrote:
Actually my Skype works fine in Leopard.

thanks rex.

i'm sure skype/iChat all work fine, i was just wondering if there was a 'spaces-aware' behaviour - such that if i was working in a different space, they would set themselves to 'unavailable' or 'away'. and if they don't - do the notification windows still come through to the space you are working in?

cheers
ben

[Anonymous]

All the whiz bang and eye-candy is nice (and mostly useful) but the bits that I really like are the little big things like the the Mail, iCal, Address Book improvements.

For example: Mail detects addresses and phone numbers in e-mails to add to Address Book. Right click an email to make a to do item that links the email to an iCal calendar. There's lots I haven't had time to explore yet, but from what I've seen in demos these programs are now working to provide some pretty solid groupware functions - without the headaches, complexity and IT expenses of MS' Exchange and Entourage.

[__archiben]

Matthew wrote:
All the whiz bang and eye-candy is nice (and mostly useful) but the bits that I really like are the little big things like the the Mail, iCal, Address Book improvements.

yep - it's those improvements that most caught my eye - notes, to-dos and RSS in mail (safari was always the wrong place!)

and time machine - but i suspect i would need a huge external drive for that or it would fill up pretty quickly.

but i don't know if the rest justifies it. how is the performance? have you noticed any general improvement, or does all the eye-candy pretty much cancel that out? if there was a noticeable performance increase i would go for it regardless of spaces (i'd probably just disable that).

[Eduardo Rolon]

~/archiben wrote:
…and time machine - but i suspect i would need a huge external drive for that or it would fill up pretty quickly.

You can choose what you need to backup to avoid lack of space thus the minimum hd that you need has to have the same about of Gb as you have now.
The backups are incremental so it only backups whats changed and you will be surprised as to how small they become. From my first 200Gb it is doing a 50 meg hourly tops. AFAIK TM will start consolidating the hourly into daily the daily into weekly and then into monthly and it will ask what to do when it runs out of space. THe consolidation clears space in the drive and it is almost invisible. The procedure is akin to 10.4 Spotlight indexing but surprisingly fast.

~/archiben wrote:
but i don't know if the rest justifies it. how is the performance? have you noticed any general improvement, or does all the eye-candy pretty much cancel that out? if there was a noticeable performance increase i would go for it regardless of spaces (i'd probably just disable that).

Overall it feels slightly snappier, memory handling is better and the beachballs have vanished about 80%. I don't see any major slowdowns.

[Rob]

ah - well that's ok. i thought that there would be some horrible false-perspective side-shelf thing going on! thanks . . .

Ben,

I have found this to make the dock flat...(attached thingy)
BTW, Skype works without any problems (incl.video) on X.5

[Chazz]

ejrolon wrote:
Overall it feels slightly snappier, memory handling is better and the beachballs have vanished about 80%. I don't see any major slowdowns.

Agreed. I love this about Apple OS updates: more coolness/no performance penalty.

I also love the cover-flow file browsing for some data types. Hate the new folder icons.

[Anonymous]

~/archiben wrote:
how is the performance? have you noticed any general improvement...

Oohhh yeahhh

Everything seems faster. I can't do any benchmarks since I didn't do any timed tests before the switch, but the apparent wind is very refreshing.

On the down side I am also having the DWG I/O problem. For now I'll boot in Windows for that work.

[Thomas Holm]

Does anybody know if there are any issues with Fiery's print drivers and Leopard?

Not counting that, there are other reasons to wait for 10.5.1, besides Graphisoft's compatibility annoncement :
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/11/13/finder-data-loss-bug-squashed-in-latest-10-5-1-...