JD on MX: I’ve seen some people say their Macs run Dreamweaver MX 2004 “slow”.
I wouldn’t expect Macromedia, or any other company, to come out and admit the software is not ready for prime time. But blaming the users to counter the PR effect is low.
Here’s a concrete example of how slow it is: I have web site made of 25 extremely simple files, a web gallery just exported from iPhoto. One 640×480 image and three links on each page, that’s it. I select them all in the files panel and Open. I can watch each file opening, it takes about 5 minutes to open them all and refresh the UI. Oh, I do this is with Code View only!
I have a PowerMac G4 450MHz with 380MB of RAM. Photoshop, Illustrator, the browsers all work well, are very responsive and snappy with loads of layers, documents, windows.
You can try it out.
Update: The Dreamweaver MX 2004 Updater fixes many of the performance issues.
6 responses so far ↓
1 John Dowdell // Sep 12, 2003 at 15:21
“But blaming the users to counter the PR effect is low.”
Nope… go read what I actually wrote.
Recap: Doing the some-or-all tests in a newsgroup historically doesn’t work well, so going direct to tech support is better.
It also spares me the aggravation of people trying to put words in my mouth like that…. ;-)
2 MX Guru // Nov 1, 2003 at 00:04
I must agree, MX 2004 on a MAC is stupid slow. I am beging to loose faith in Macromedia.
3 Gabriel Radic // Dec 4, 2003 at 18:20
The problem exists and it’s obvious like the balls on a bull-dog. If you want facts, see the rockford bug-base ;-)
Whining DOES help get the attention on the issue.
> It also spares me the aggravation of people trying to put words in my mouth like that…. ;-)
It’s the price you pay for being famous B-)
4 Ri // Jan 8, 2004 at 10:36
Yeh, even on a 1.8ghz G5 with 1.5 gigs of ram, Dreamweaver MX is slow as a slug. It often crashes too! I’m very dissapointed in it. I had it running faster and more stable in Redhat 9 using CrossOver Office!
5 Nikolaus // Jul 12, 2004 at 13:59
I’m glad I’m not the only one who has that problem. I have a 450 MHZ G4, and can’t even do some simple php-coding in macromedia Dreamweaver mx 2004. I have to wait for several seconds for after each line of code I type. Is this issue being adressed at Macromedia?
6 rossbach // Aug 22, 2004 at 00:02
and I was wondering… G5 dual 2gHz with 3.5GB RAM and Dreamweaver MX 2004 feels like I’m running it on a g3…
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