


It’s extremely fast, especially compared to Access on Windows, which has recently become quite slow. Ninox is the kind of app that you once could only find on Windows. I’m even moving IDG’s storage testing data to it. I won’t go into great detail about it here, but you can read more about it in my review. There was really nothing initially on the Mac that could match Access, and pricey FileMaker had no appeal to me, even after it featured up. The powerful yet simple Ninox database app. Then the first modern, aluminum iMacs hit the streets in 2008 and the idea really began to percolate. I was now a long-time Windows guy, if not a particularly enthusiastic one. When Apple switched to Intel, and Boot Camp was announced, the idea of using a more stylish Mac to dual-boot began to rattle around my head. Adobe ruled in those days, and all the creatives wanted Macs to run Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. And yes, PCWorld was published using Macs.
NINOX COMPOSITION MAC OS
Also, there was a certain teeny-bopper flavor to many of Apple’s new offerings that didn’t have much appeal to me.Īll this time I was backing up Macs for the PCWorld art department, so I was well-schooled in Mac OS (soon to be OS X, and now macOS). Jobs and Apple’s mojo was back, but I was still ehh–again, price. I paid little to no attention to the Mac until late in the decade (1998) when the iMac, iBook, and faster G4/G5 Mac towers showed up. If you’re going to forego the je ne sais quoi, you’d better darn well be saving a boatload of cash, but the savings were rather mild. However, they, like many other products that have tried to imitate Apple, lacked that certain something. The Mac clones in 1994 made an impression, again largely because of lower costs. An idea that sounded great, but ultimately cut into Apple’s bottom line.

The Power Computing PowerWave sanctioned Mac clone.
