just to let you know

Dreamweaver MX 2004, and make it snappy !

Anyone who has already trialled or even bought it might know what comes next. Everyone who hasn't: be warned... the new edition of Dreamweaver - MX 2004 is stupendously slow. An 800Mhz G4 with 640MB is struggling with and it became unbearable for me to carry on working with it. This is of course despite the advantages and bugfixes that were undertaken in MX 2004. It's such a shame, but how can something like this happen to a multi mullion $ company such as Macromedia who must be reliant on Apple Mac user on a much higher percentage than other software developers. What kind of tests were done? What machines were used to undertake the tests?

I have a suspicion that MM uses one of these G5 clusters for user acceptance testing :-) Anyway, let's all hope for a patch or update or something. The current version is unworkable.

P.S.: I've just read somwhere that decreasing the maximum undo-steps in DW preferences does increase performance. However I can't confirm this. Anyway - this shouldn't be really something a designer have to do in order to make DW more "snappy".

Posted by Michael at March 10, 2004 10:13 PM