Posted by brandonthedeveloper at April 18th, 2007

Lead designer on the phone with Adobe ordering our CS3 software and the sales person is saying there is a 20 dollar fee for downloading (per OS) and even more if I want the box sent in the mail.

I know compared to my Flash friends outside of the U.S. I don’t have much to complain about but DANG! Adobe can send out AS3,Flash,Flex API posters to anyone who wants them for free (and I appreciate it) but we’ve gotta pay twenty dollars per download? I think that’s lame and especially lame to repeat customers. They should have made the upgrade price twenty dollars more to begin with and then no one would be pissed.

Posted by brandonthedeveloper at February 20th, 2007

Took me roughly twenty mins to go from cd in hand to having XP loaded on the G5 under Parallels. Then I installed VirtueDesktops so I could have the cool desktop to desktop transition. :)

So far it runs fantastic. I can’t tell any performance differences. Even Flexbuilder 2 runs faster under Parallels than on regular old Windows. The only thing I might have grumbled about was that it defaults to an 8 gig Virtual Machine. I can always make it bigger but I guess I wish that had been an option upon VM creation. I love how you can have mac windows floating over Windows (windows) and file sharing was very easy to set up.
This works out great now. My beefy PC rig will go back to being strictly a testing environ running win2k3 server and I’ll have all my creation tools (Flexbuilder, Studio 8, SEPY) running on the mac. It will be nice to have everything in one spot. :)