I am still here

[aardvark]

my wife still has her Vista computer, but it looks like it is going to be in August before I get my piggies on it. She is typing away on her grad school stuff so she doesn’t want to deal with it now.

i am very disillusioned with the Mac, not much software out there in our area of fun. I guess it is probably easier to program a PC than write one for the Mac. there are different platforms and I think that has a big thing to deal with and now with Sierra showing up in the fall , it is going to be fun.

I do use Weatherdisplay but with this Mac (the memory can’t be upgraded. the dimms are soldered to the motherboard and that sealed in the screen) I used it for a while to get the data. It is the only program I see that will allow me to use all 8 stations on the VP2 and record the data as well.

Wim worked with me getting the Weatherlink IP to update my website, so I have that working that way and can’t wait to get her Vista running for me and getting Wdisplay doing all the good work instead.

Apple sells a lot of Macs, but I guess the targeted audience is Internet, movies, mail, social media and the like.

So… in the meantime I got an apple watch and seeing how i like it. We were at the apple store and my wife caught me looking at a drone and suggested something that would get the neighbors really ticked. So I got the 42mm . We’ll see

We are heading to Maine for grad school for the wife, so I will be playing on the Ipad while she is in class. How much trouble can I get into?

Anyway, that is what I am doing. Supposed to storm tonight. Mix feeling, we need the rain, great data but someone is going to lose a barn.

[embayweather]

Sad to hear that you do not like the Mac young man but happy to hear you are still around.
I use my Mac for everything including weather, photography and the usual word porcessing and similar stuff. I do use Parallels and WD is happily chugging away inside there. Perhaps you may grow to llike it in time.

Mike

[aardvark]

It doesn’t do well with many screens opened. The sad part of what I have , the late 2015, with 8 gig ram, 1tb disk… is that I can’t upgrade it as I could with a tower cpu. I had wanted 16 g of Ram but the Apple store didn’t have anything above 8 and I was in great need of a new machine. My PC , for some reason, trashed everything down to the boot sector and won’t start up. I am going to need to either take it in to the repair shop and have Win 10 put in, or wait for the wife. Both machines can have more RAM.

Now, if I leave the weather software running on the mac, I get something. WD is a great program for the PC, but for the Mac, it has limitations. Not Brian’s fault, it is just the mac. I do use weather software, then want to check my email, use Quicken, or something else, it doesn’t have the horses to do that. Everything grinds to a halt. Something has to close.

I know it is time for me to put on my big boy pants and deal with it. What I would like to do is have the PC run weatherdisplay and update my site with goodies as well as at the end of the month, print out reports as the Pc version does. I also want the PC to run my webcam stuff (Blue Iris).

Use the Mac for everything else . Don’t get me wrong that the iMac self contained isn’t a great machine. It is.

I don’t want to run bootcamp or Parallels because of resource consumption. I guess I am not alone, others on mac boards have similar concern. Perhaps when Sierra comes out and addresses the flaws and shortcomings of El Capitan and they get the kinks and bugs out, I will upgrade and things will be better.

Right now I run weather display short times daily to gather the data for analysis. Anyway, in a few days, I will be off to the wilds of Canada and Maine and not have to worry about things. When we return, I will either take my farcocked on pc in for a fix or my wife will transition to a new machine, I take hers, clean off the HD of her old crap and be happy.