Hurry up and wait

[GJ]

I'm watching a few colleagues struggle with 9.0. Instead of upgrading, I put a little extra money into some different software packages with "real" advanced modelling and rendering features. From the looks of it, this was a wise choice. I was amazed at how fast these other programs redraw and render. (a 2.3 million polygon civic center)

I work in an office with both VW and AutoCad2000 and I'm ashamed when I see my piece of junk PC handling enormous files with networked references from 500 miles away, and my PowerbookG4 is struggling to redraw a few layers.

I wonder if Dhiel is beginning to have this problem because more users are finally expecting to do large commercial production on VW? Whereas from versions 5-6-7, when they had far less users (or "glowing reviews" from the mac magazines), we were pleased with whatever new gadgets they included, even if we couldn't join walls properly (...we still can't.) Remember- "ooh the wall wall framing tool, how neat - it must have...several uses."

I'm loyal, but I'm getting worried that it will only get worse, because they are spending all of their efforts porting to OSX and not improving its speed or simplicity. I can wait, but the Construction Managers can't.

GJ