I used Atlantis for a long time and was most sad when I learned that it could not be used with my new machine, a Mac with OSX..........
Is there any chance of Atlantis becoming available to Mac users........PLEASE?
Take care and greetings.
Ken
Mac Compatibility
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Andremusic
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I have a little bit the same problem here. I used atlantis to write two books (the second is coming out in april...) and are working on my third right now. I love the outline option, it is the perfect tool for making the chapters etc. But I also bought a mac and am afraid that I will going to use it more then my pc. The problem with a pc or windowslaptop is that the noise of the machine is driving me nuts. And ofcourse the fact that windows is so unstable. That's why I change to a mac. So... will there ever be a mac version?
André
André
Re: Change to a Mac
Greetings--Andremusic wrote:The problem with a pc or windowslaptop is that the noise of the machine is driving me nuts. And ofcourse the fact that windows is so unstable. That's why I change to a mac.
André
Noise on PCs or laptops is essentially dependent on the quality of the harware components. Good PCs are almost completely noiseless.
Windows XP is as stable as one could wish.
Cheers
Robert
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Well, Robert... I have a laptop pentium 4 with 2 gb ram memory and the noise is very loud. I can not use it in the night because it wakes up my wife. I amusing XP and it works fine the first couple of weeks, but then the computer starts to slow down, freezing slow doooooooooown... and that on a pentium 4 with 2 gb ram! At that moment I don't feel the difference anymore with my normal 2 gb 512 ram pc. My daughter has a Mac and they are soundless and fast. I studied on a mac for a while and I have to agree that they never crash as long I worked on it. Windows however...
André
André
Re: noisy laptops
Greetings–
Intel Centrino-based laptops are known to be almost completely noiseless.
What’s more, if or when you are using your laptop only for word processing tasks, you do not need your CPU to run at high speed. Under Windows XP, you can control and lower the running frequency of your CPU. The lower the frequency, the less noise. The fan will not start to cool the CPU if it runs at a low frequency. You can download a free applet that “allows dynamic switching of the frequencies of mobile Intel and mobile AMD CPUs under Windows XP” from http://www.diefer.de/speedswitchxp. Here is the site description:
“SpeedswitchXP is a small applet that sits in the system tray and allows dynamic switching of the frequencies of mobile Intel and mobile AMD CPUs under Windows XP. During the development of Windows XP, Microsoft decided to integrate dynamic frequency switching into the operating system itself. On a default Windows XP installation, the power schemes in the power settings of the system panel control the frequencies of the processor. On Windows 2000 and previous operating systems, it was possible to manually control the CPU frequencies with a SpeedStep applet provided by Intel, but this is not possible anymore under Windows XP. It is not very good documented what the different Windows XP power schemes do and it is impossible to fully adjust the schemes as the important settings are not accessible through the control panel.
SpeedswitchXP tries to fill this gap in that it provides access to ALL power scheme settings. This small applet is similar in functionality to the native Intel SpeedStep applet for Windows 9x/ME and Windows 2000 but with a few more options.
Basically all it does is creating a power scheme under the power settings in the system panel and making this the default power scheme for Windows XP. When this is done, you can control all settings of this new scheme through the applet.
Since this program is using Windows XP's internal processor performance control functions, it should work on all notebooks that feature dynamic speed switching. So far, it has been successfully tested on notebooks with the following mobile CPUs:
CPU type Tested notebooks
Mobile Pentium III-M Dell Inspiron 4100/8100, Dell Latitude C610/C810
Mobile Pentium 4-M Dell Inspiron 8200/8500, Dell Latitude C840
Mobile Pentium 4 Dell Inspiron 5150
Mobile Pentium M / Centrino IBM Thinkpad T40/T40p, Dell Latitude D800
Mobile AMD Athlon XP Peacock Freeliner XP, Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A x600”
You can also use “Notebook Hardware Control” from http://www.pbus-167.com/chc.htm. Here is the site description:
“With Notebook Hardware Control you can easily control the hardware components of your Notebook (AMD and Intel). Notebook Hardware Control helps you to:
- prolong the battery lifetime and cool down the system with CPU Voltage Control and ATI Clock Control.
- full processor speed control with custom dynamic switching and CPU Speed Control (CPU policy)
- monitor the battery charge level and system temperature.
- control and monitor the Hard Drive with S.M.A.R.T management, acoustic & advanced power management and Hard Drive temperature monitoring.
- reduce noise with Notebook FAN Control (not for all Notebooks).
Info: Notebook Hardware Control works on all Notebooks (AMD and Intel).
Some features are only available on newer Pentium CPU's”
Hope this helps.
Finally, I am adamant that Windows XP is perfectly stable provided you have the right hardware.
Cheers
Robert
Intel Centrino-based laptops are known to be almost completely noiseless.
What’s more, if or when you are using your laptop only for word processing tasks, you do not need your CPU to run at high speed. Under Windows XP, you can control and lower the running frequency of your CPU. The lower the frequency, the less noise. The fan will not start to cool the CPU if it runs at a low frequency. You can download a free applet that “allows dynamic switching of the frequencies of mobile Intel and mobile AMD CPUs under Windows XP” from http://www.diefer.de/speedswitchxp. Here is the site description:
“SpeedswitchXP is a small applet that sits in the system tray and allows dynamic switching of the frequencies of mobile Intel and mobile AMD CPUs under Windows XP. During the development of Windows XP, Microsoft decided to integrate dynamic frequency switching into the operating system itself. On a default Windows XP installation, the power schemes in the power settings of the system panel control the frequencies of the processor. On Windows 2000 and previous operating systems, it was possible to manually control the CPU frequencies with a SpeedStep applet provided by Intel, but this is not possible anymore under Windows XP. It is not very good documented what the different Windows XP power schemes do and it is impossible to fully adjust the schemes as the important settings are not accessible through the control panel.
SpeedswitchXP tries to fill this gap in that it provides access to ALL power scheme settings. This small applet is similar in functionality to the native Intel SpeedStep applet for Windows 9x/ME and Windows 2000 but with a few more options.
Basically all it does is creating a power scheme under the power settings in the system panel and making this the default power scheme for Windows XP. When this is done, you can control all settings of this new scheme through the applet.
Since this program is using Windows XP's internal processor performance control functions, it should work on all notebooks that feature dynamic speed switching. So far, it has been successfully tested on notebooks with the following mobile CPUs:
CPU type Tested notebooks
Mobile Pentium III-M Dell Inspiron 4100/8100, Dell Latitude C610/C810
Mobile Pentium 4-M Dell Inspiron 8200/8500, Dell Latitude C840
Mobile Pentium 4 Dell Inspiron 5150
Mobile Pentium M / Centrino IBM Thinkpad T40/T40p, Dell Latitude D800
Mobile AMD Athlon XP Peacock Freeliner XP, Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A x600”
You can also use “Notebook Hardware Control” from http://www.pbus-167.com/chc.htm. Here is the site description:
“With Notebook Hardware Control you can easily control the hardware components of your Notebook (AMD and Intel). Notebook Hardware Control helps you to:
- prolong the battery lifetime and cool down the system with CPU Voltage Control and ATI Clock Control.
- full processor speed control with custom dynamic switching and CPU Speed Control (CPU policy)
- monitor the battery charge level and system temperature.
- control and monitor the Hard Drive with S.M.A.R.T management, acoustic & advanced power management and Hard Drive temperature monitoring.
- reduce noise with Notebook FAN Control (not for all Notebooks).
Info: Notebook Hardware Control works on all Notebooks (AMD and Intel).
Some features are only available on newer Pentium CPU's”
Hope this helps.
Finally, I am adamant that Windows XP is perfectly stable provided you have the right hardware.
Cheers
Robert
Re: noisy laptops (2)
Greetings--
You might want to have a look at the following sites. They give good advice on how to build or choose a silent PC.
http://www.silentpcreview.com/
http://www.silent.se/
http://www.buildsilentpc.com/
http://www.siliconacoustics.com/
http://www.silentpc.nl/
http://www.quietpc.com/
Cheers
Robert
You might want to have a look at the following sites. They give good advice on how to build or choose a silent PC.
http://www.silentpcreview.com/
http://www.silent.se/
http://www.buildsilentpc.com/
http://www.siliconacoustics.com/
http://www.silentpc.nl/
http://www.quietpc.com/
Cheers
Robert
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I have my mac computer since 5 days at my home and I must say that I really love the silence. As much as I love my pc, when I write I like it to be as quiet as possible around me. Even with all the silencer programs that I tried before already, the difference isn't so much. I will miss atlantis too, because I intend to do most of my writings on my mac now. There is a word version on my mac, but no way that I am going to use it. I think I will use Mellel instead. However, would atlantis ever going to run on the mac, I will change back to it immediatly!
Thanks for the good times!
(ofcourse, Atlantis is still on my laptop, using it as my standard word processor!)
André
Thanks for the good times!
(ofcourse, Atlantis is still on my laptop, using it as my standard word processor!)
André
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I'm a Mac user keeping an eye on Atlantis because my next computer will be a PC, or at least that was my plan before Apple made the switch to Intel processors.
While I do think a Mac version of Atlantis would be great (it would surpass Nisus and Mellel, that's for sure), let's face it: this is a small company and it's better that they spend their limited resources improving Atlantis rather than porting it.
It seems that, for the moment, the only way to run Atlantis on a Mac is through emulation. Once Vista supports the EFI specification for booting, people like us will be able to run Windows directly on our Macs--alongside Mac OS X
While I do think a Mac version of Atlantis would be great (it would surpass Nisus and Mellel, that's for sure), let's face it: this is a small company and it's better that they spend their limited resources improving Atlantis rather than porting it.
It seems that, for the moment, the only way to run Atlantis on a Mac is through emulation. Once Vista supports the EFI specification for booting, people like us will be able to run Windows directly on our Macs--alongside Mac OS X
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I have to apologize...
Because after using the mac with Mellel for some 7 days or so now, I have to admit that I don't feel happy with it. I am back on my noisy pc again, writing in Atlantis. The mac is great and quiet, but working in Atlantis is easier then any of the programs I tried out on the mac. I KNOW how to use Mellel, so that is not the problem. But the outline for example in it is very complicated to use, while in Atlantis it is a breeze!
Back again, and enjoying the oldfashion typing sounds (not available in Mellel either...)
André
Because after using the mac with Mellel for some 7 days or so now, I have to admit that I don't feel happy with it. I am back on my noisy pc again, writing in Atlantis. The mac is great and quiet, but working in Atlantis is easier then any of the programs I tried out on the mac. I KNOW how to use Mellel, so that is not the problem. But the outline for example in it is very complicated to use, while in Atlantis it is a breeze!
Back again, and enjoying the oldfashion typing sounds (not available in Mellel either...)
André
Greetings--Andremusic wrote:I have to apologize...
Because after using the mac with Mellel for some 7 days or so now, I have to admit that I don't feel happy with it. I am back on my noisy pc again, writing in Atlantis. The mac is great and quiet, but working in Atlantis is easier then any of the programs I tried out on the mac. I KNOW how to use Mellel, so that is not the problem. But the outline for example in it is very complicated to use, while in Atlantis it is a breeze! Back again, and enjoying the oldfashion typing sounds (not available in Mellel either...)
André
Welcome home, André!
We are all glad you're back!
Enjoy Atlantis!
Cheers
Robert
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thanks!
I think seriously that Atlantis is the best choice for me. I finished two novels by now, both are published. A little pluging... you can see the beautiful fronts on my site at http://www.andrevanharen.com/mybooks.htm
I also put a link to the Atlantis website, I hope this is oke with you. The link is at http://www.andrevanharen.com/links.htm
greetings,
André
I think seriously that Atlantis is the best choice for me. I finished two novels by now, both are published. A little pluging... you can see the beautiful fronts on my site at http://www.andrevanharen.com/mybooks.htm
I also put a link to the Atlantis website, I hope this is oke with you. The link is at http://www.andrevanharen.com/links.htm
greetings,
André
Re: Atlantis best choice
Hi, André!Andremusic wrote:thanks!
I think seriously that Atlantis is the best choice for me. I finished two novels by now, both are published. A little pluging... you can see the beautiful fronts on my site at http://www.andrevanharen.com/mybooks.htm
I also put a link to the Atlantis website, I hope this is oke with you. The link is at http://www.andrevanharen.com/links.htm
greetings,
André
Of course, it is OK. Thank you very much.
One slight glitch though. The Atlantis site address has changed. It is now http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en/
Thanks for correcting this.
Cheers
Robert
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Just registered to let you know that Atlantis Ocean Mind works fantastically under Wine on Linux, and the commercial app Crossover Office too. (I don't own a copy but a friend of mine uses it, I just downloaded the demo and it's a great word processor).
What does this mean for Mac OS X owners you might ask? Well, a version of Crossover Office is coming to the Mac within the next few months. You'll be able to use Atlantis Ocean Mind through Crossover Office on the mac.
http://news.com.com/2300-1016_3-6090070-1.html
Hope that's of some help to people out there (I run a mac too, but I dual boot into windows to try out Atlantis).
What does this mean for Mac OS X owners you might ask? Well, a version of Crossover Office is coming to the Mac within the next few months. You'll be able to use Atlantis Ocean Mind through Crossover Office on the mac.
http://news.com.com/2300-1016_3-6090070-1.html
Hope that's of some help to people out there (I run a mac too, but I dual boot into windows to try out Atlantis).