The reason you don't have a lot of viruses is, Mac OS X is a layer built on top of Unix which is a stable secure OS and the root source of OS X's security. To get people to compromise their Macs, you have to trick them into it. Microsoft's fatal error was ActiveX controls, and the tight integration of IE Explorer into the OS. And don't get me started on the Registry (which you don't have on the Mac). Glad to see that this debate gathers followers : )Īctually, I think the two Mike had caught two interesting points : If you work in a company where everybody uses the PC, I think it's not the best to be the only one who use a mac. Īnd then the conversation about the publishing times is very important. The first thing that comes to my mind is that I am wondering if the staff have worked on this "issue" with the new products that will be released ( the new Studio suite and Storyline). Those who attend the forum and the various Articulate-related blogs know that there are " tricks " to reduce the time of export, but having the time lower without these tricks would certainly be cool. In my case, today I am working in a company, but I do not exclude that it could soon start my own business and create my own company.
To be honest I'm far more interested in stability and speed/performance improvements than any of the new features.That's why I'm considering buying a new computer. I have to admit to being slightly nervous about making the switch as I know there are a lot of changes in it. I'll give the v13 tools a try at some point then. Thanks Matt - as if to prove my point about your excellent support!! In version 13 xSCOPE now streams to file rather than buffers, this will result in much better performance and resolve this problem with it having to write out a large file at the end, you will still however get a large file if you are tracing a lot of data. The XTAG-2 firmware does not support USB suspend at this time, this is targeted to be fixed in production release of 13, at the moment you will as you say have to disconnect and reconnect the XTAG-2 after your machine goes to sleep.Ĥ. There was a bug in the underlying eclipse platform we use for xTIMEcomposer which was stopping the real time display working correctly on OSX, we believe this is now fixed but if it is not we will look into it again.Ģ. I believe we have addressed all the issues you mention in version 13.ġ. I'm hoping there will be stability/speed improvements in xScope in the v13 tools.Īs a general point the 13.0 beta 1 release has had a lot of work put into it to improve the stability of xSCOPE so this would be worth trying. I've learned to work around the various problems, but it has been a bit painful at times. The IDE goes unresponsive in the meantime, which is quite annoying. If you're tracing audio data in xScope, the files can get very large very quickly and it can take a long time between pressing the stop button in the tools and the output file getting written. Matt at XMOS has been really helpful with the problems I've had with the tools (but others aren't always so helpful).Ĥ. If your Mac goes to sleep mode, you'll need to disconnect/reconnect the XTAG2 before the tools will see it again.ģ. Real-time mode is hopeless, it just doesn't work in my experience.Ģ. Some advice from my experiences with xScope :ġ. I'd hope that isn't your problem if you're using XMOS boards, but I wouldn't rule it out. I recently spent a long time searching for an error on my custom PCB until I eventually found out that the reason xScope wasn't working was a bug in the tools. I don't know whether it's worse on OSX than any other platform, but yes it can be pretty patchy. Yes, I run mostly on OSX and I've had more than a few struggles with xScope.
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