Hi

I was really disspointed to learn there is no Mac version of Axure. Anyone know if this is in the plans for a future release? I'd like to get some of my designers using Axure but they are on a Mac.

Are they on Intel Macs? I'm now running Axure under Parallels on a Mac Book Pro and it runs beautifully. The wide screen is a real nice change from my Dell. I can see most of a 1024x768 wireframe in Axure with Parallels in full-screen mode.

Hi guys 

dcjarvis:

Hi guys 

Would really like to see a native OS X version - is this going to happen, or are we stuck to using Windoze?

Thanks

DJ

I think Axure only runs on real computers

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Before we start a Mac versus PC debate... :)

It has been very tempting to build a version native to OS X, and we are continuing to consider it. However, no firm plans have been made to develop a Mac version. With virtualization using Parallels or Fusion, it is tougher to make the business case for it, but we understand the difference and that many customers would find a Mac version valuable.

funny...a real computer can't run OS X legally. Axure runs nicely with virtualization and i still can use my favorite OS X tools too.

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Disclaimer: I am not an employee of Axure nor am I compensated by the company in any way, shape or form. Rather, I have a vested interest in its continued development as an avid user of the application on a daily-basis.

I would also love to see Axure for the mac. 

I would love to have a native Mac version of the Axure software. I am sure other real GUI designers will appreciate it too, despite what real computer guys may say.

Well, Mac people have the joy of using OmniGraffle, which PC users do have have an equivalent version.

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Count me in too.

[I'd much rather use Axure on my 'toy' Mac (with its stabilty, fine OS and beautiful integration) than on my 'real computer' PC (complete with 'real' grown-up battles with its clunky OS, poor integration, UI with its severe limitations and the constant threat of malware and viruses) :-) ]

A quick "me too". Axure is amazing. If only I could use it natively - on OS X. Apart from some idiosyncrasies (click, double-click, OK button depending on where you are, not what you do and lack of keyboard shortcuts for some very obvious things), this is the perfect mockup toy. 

Ah, no disrespect: toy means: it feels like playing, even if it's serious work. 

If you can send a report of the idiosyncrasies to us (support@axure.com), we'd be happy to take a look and maybe get some addressed in version 5.

Hi Victor

I'm having a problem running Axure via Parallels - maybe you can help.

Whenever I use the context menus (right-click) or a menu from the top of the screen (File Edit etc) the fad-in effect on the menu takes an age to complete, severely slowing me down. This i probably not an Axure issue although it doesn't happen in my other PC apps...

I'm on Mac OS 10.4.11 using Parallels

Any advice gratefully accepted! 

i also run Axure on Parallels on 10.4.11 (Leopard is way too buggy to upgrade yet). however, Parallels has been updated twice in the last month - the earlier release seems to have improved performance a bit). you might want to upgrade Parallels with the latest release to see if that makes a difference.

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Disclaimer: I am not an employee of Axure nor am I compensated by the company in any way, shape or form. Rather, I have a vested interest in its continued development as an avid user of the application on a daily-basis.

Ok, I'm not sure how the business case is hard to make...

I run a London-based interactive design consultancy. We are 100% Mac based, as are the vast majority of our peers. It's hard to go anywhere in the industry without seeing a Mac.

This is not a Mac vs. PC debate - frankly, it doesn't matter what people chose to use. But the fact is, Windows is rare in the design industry (at least in the uk) and is even becoming extremely rare among hard core developers, due to the ability to virtualise multiple OS's on one machine concurrently (and the general excellence of tools like TextMate, OmniGraffle, etc. Oh, and the whole UNIX thing.).

We have a dozen machines we'd buy the software for if it ran natively, but we're not going to virtualise an expensive, high-grade app on a daily basis. So that's $6k lost, in just one small studio. Multiply that by hundreds (perhaps thousands) of similar studios.

Does that sound like a hard business case to make? Not to me.

If you don't do it, someone else will.