I'm wishing to do my own ecommerce site and after shopping around, I really like the MC features. Only problem is I have the new mac intel and am not sure whether the MC software is compatible. I know it supports OS via Rosetta and think MC works with OS, but much is still unclear with certain software. Does anyone out there use MC on a mac or better yet, mac w/intel?

Hey Mac,

Welcome to the forums and congrats on your MacIntel purchase!

MC software is browser based, so it works just fine on a mac. The one exception, is the dataport which requires a PC operating system. There are mac users using MC to develop there site here.

As far as the other software goes, as you mentioned you have rosetta, you would never know it because it is seamless, its just that apple had to let everyone know that it existed to explain how prior mac programs would exist with a new processor. I wouldn't sweat it.

If you don't know about it, Apple introduced Bootcamp software this week as beta which allows you to boot your mac with windows. As I said it is Beta, but the final version is due later on this year.

Hi mac user!

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Thanks

Brian

I have both G5 and Intel MAC's at home and have no trouble editing in the admin. You just need a stand alone HTML editor instead of the WYSIWYG built in. But then again, if you were relying on the built in you have other bigger problems to worry about

Aaagh! So now I have to learn HTML after all since WYSIWYG isn't compatible. I wonder...is it compatible with Bootcamp? Forgive me for sounding so ignorant, my new mac has really thrown me for a loop. Not that I don't love it already, but waiting for software can be a hassle (rosetta definitely runs OSX slower). Oh well my choice! Maybe I'll eleviate the headaches and just go with a webdesigner, since I'm not as savvy as I'd like to be. Any more words of encouragement from you fellow mac users?

I dont know if what I said go confused but the "built in" WYSIWYG does not work. Any other 3rd-party WYSIWYG editor capable of running under Rosetta will work fine. You would just have to copy/paste the html in is all.

You need to learn html not because you have a mac, but because you have a website. html is not that complicated to learn, you just really need to know the basics. The WYSIWIG that MC has doesn't work all that great on the PC, you really aren't missing much.

Go with a template for now. I have recently learned that there is much more to designing a website than making it look pretty. IMHO the big deal with MC is the shopping cart's functionality and the admin of the orders.

Your Mac may need some more memory(ram) to help out the sluggishness. Which mac do you have? What programs are you running in Rosetta?

Thanks for all the info. I'll have to do some thinking on this!