Re: New Mac user

In article <1150885954.067561.102930@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
davemsharp@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi All,

My aging mid-90s toshiba portege laptop finally died so I decided it
was time to take the leap and buy an iBook. I found a v cheap G3
800Mhz on ebay which i figured would be more than enough since I had
no real speed complaints from the P3 500Mhz I had just come from.

So far, all is pretty good. I love the instant sleep and resume and
the hardware design as a whole. The system is rock solid too. Never
had to reboot due to weirdness which makes a nice change.

I do have a few questions though as things i took for granted with the
PC i assumed would be ok on the mac too.

First, Java and Flash. The G3 800Mhz is a clear step up from the P3 I
was using before but java is diabolicle. Unuseable i'd say. Not too
bad when run stand alone but in a browser I cant use it. Flash is ok,
but still pretty jerky. Are their 3rd party solutions that mac users
are using? Especially Java.

I think you're going to need to quantify things for us a bit more,
because I think the general experience of Java on Macs in the OS X era
isn't something one would really describe as diabolical. And it really
shouldn't be particularly slower in a browser than out. So...

What OS version are you running?
What version of Java is installed? (If you have OS X, "java -version" in
terminal will tell you. I can't remember how to determine in 9.)
Did you start with a clean OS install?
What, approximately, does diabolical mean for you?


Multiple Applications - This came as a real surprise for me. I cannot
seem to open more than one application of the same type at a time.
This is very frustrating as with the Microsoft Remote Desktop client I
can only have one window open at once. My work requires me to have
multiple remote desktops open. Is there something I'm missing?

Aside from a little bit of trickery that's sometimes possible, a Mac
only runs a single instance of any given (non-daemon) application at a
time. If the Remote Desktop client won't let you open multiple sessions
concurrently it's both an anomaly and, I'd say, a serious design flaw in
the client.

G

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