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To: Doren who wrote (68659)	9/16/2007 1:26:25 PM
From: HerbVic	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

Quicktime has gone from the GEM of Apple to something to be avoided. Doren, I couldn't disagree more, but my experience is not your experience so I'll assume you have a basis for that opinion. I run two Macs. My main computer is an iMac G5 running OS X 10.4.10 in 2GB. My second (read backup) computer is an iMac G4 running OS X 10.3.9 in 1GB. I have seen no such problems of crashing or choked browsers. IMHO the pace of advance in hardware speed is on the wane. For all Mac owners running G3 or earlier systems, the time to upgrade is now. Today's systems will be strongly viable for many years to come.

To: Doren who wrote (68659)	9/17/2007 12:41:43 PM
From: Stock Puppy	Respond to of 213182

My beef is with programs that up date every year or so and change file format enough that older versions no longer can read unless the author specifically saves it as an older format (and most people are too lazy or clueless to do a save as...). The new versions add a few features, but the main reason that most upgrade is so that they can read other people's work (which is why the company does this...) Best (for the consumer) is if the file is saved in the "new format" only if one of the nifty new features is used. ha hahahaha like they'll do that. I'll bet the only change in the format is some label in the file as to what it is compatible with. Interesting to hack in and try to change the label and see if the file is still readable. Sorry, not sure if this applies to QuickTime specifically.