Comments on: Toward a Mac migration

By: Mary Kelly

Mary Kelly — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:04:06 +0000

Scott & Other Ecco Users - Have you found any additional tips in running Ecco on the Mac?

We have used the notebook function for organizing/storing research for about 15 years & one of our key users is set on moving from a pc to a Mac.

By: Will Highfield

Will Highfield — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:12:52 +0000

I have a bit of Mac envy because of programs like iWorks. I really like the creativity you can achieve. Windows word processors are awful in this respect. However, I must admit that MS Word 2007 is a HUGE improvement for creative endeavors.

I hope Scott can get Ecco Pro to work on his Mac. Sometimes a change can be good for us. As for myself, I have found a nice balance on Windows and doubt if I will ever migrate. But then, I use Ecco Pro for my organization stuff and find it an immensely enjoyable and versatile program.

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By: David

David — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:35:29 +0000

As many on this thread already noted, I, too had a difficult time justifying spending more for a Mac. Three weeks ago I started a project at a company that gave me a choice of Mac or Windows laptop. Three weeks later, I doubt that I will ever got back to a Windows laptop. Its not any single feature that makes me say that, its a combination of several factors: starting with the sleek design and a real Unix under the hood, to the speed of startup and fancy graphic effects in the task switcher (dock), to the built-in camera.

Or do I like my Mac because I felt like a minority when I showed up at BarCamp? It felt like arriving at a bio-diesel/hybrid car meetup in a gas-powered Hummer. :)

By: Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » Ecco on Mac, Gibson on books

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:01:25 +0000

[...] slow! The Parallels set up, by contrast, is snappy and, so far, foolproof. Thanks to all of you who advised me on this dilemma. Very exciting. (The “coherence” mode of Parallels is remarkable [...]

By: Jon N

Jon N — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:27:36 +0000

FWIW I run ecco pro pretty successfully under Crossover Linux. There are a few quirks, and i’m by no means a power user of ecco Pro, but even like this it remains the best organiser/GTD mechanism I’ve found. Forget about printing from it, though.

I don’t know how in sync the Mac & Linux versions of Crossover are, but you should stand a chance. Perhaps register as an advocate of the app with Codeweavers?

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 23 May 2007 04:06:27 +0000

A small clarification: Parallels installed fine, but installing WinXP under Parallels was ugly and time-consuming.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 23 May 2007 04:05:12 +0000

I too am dependent on Ecco Pro, and I too have been migrating to Mac. I have a Core 2 Duo Macbook and was able to get Ecco installed and running under Crossover, but it seemed a little fragile. Worse yet, I don’t believe Crossover supports USB devices, and I am as wedded to my C-Pen as to Ecco. So I installed Parallels (ugly, time-consuming install, but it worked) and WinXP. Then I installed Ecco Pro. Then the C-Pen. Then ported over my big Ecco file for the book I’m writing. So far (a day or so) it seems to be working fine. I think this is your answer. (I only have 1GB RAM but it seems ok; my sense, though, is that 2GB would be a lot better.)

As to Mac equivalents to Ecco, they don’t even come close. Omni Outliner bears a surface resemblance and is least toy-like of the lot, but Ecco is immensely more powerful, flexible and suitable for industrial-strength use. I’d love to find an up to date Mac equivalent, but so far no luck.

By: John Faughnan

John Faughnan — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:54:51 +0000

I had some rough edges when I installed Win2K, but I think those were cleaned up in more recent releases of Parallels.

I don’t give Win2K much if any net access, so I don’t bother with antivirals, etc.

It works fine for installing all the Windows apps I use and it boots with amazing speed.

If you have a 2k license then Parallels isn’t too much. I’d go that way.

There are many interesting data management products on the Mac, you may find one that will replace Ecco Pro …

By: JC NYC

JC NYC — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 06:55:20 +0000

1. Macs are not more expensive.
Arguing otherwise is ignorance of the facts;

2. Best of class software (Final Cut HD, etc.) is Mac only.
Anything you can do on a Windows laptop you can do on a Mac;
The reverse is not true;

3. There is no huge premium to pay for the use of OS X on a Mac;

4. Windows is worse than far from perfect;
Windows inevitably lowers your productivity;
and Windows’ viruses, adware, and overall security flaws
should be unacceptable to any intelligent computer user;

5. Mac OS is UNIX. What would you rather use?
Industrial strength mission critical UNIX?
or a half-baked proprietary funky OS from Redmond?