So I was sitting tonight, minding my business using my mac, when all of a sudden a window appears on my screen. It’s an ad for a CorelDraw sale (I’ll attach it here if I can... Looks an awful lot like the ones I see on my PC). Now I know what you are thinking… I was using Corel, I was surfing the web… nope! I had Mac mail open, I was writing in iMessage and not another thing was open and running! Most Mac users would find this peculiar I would think?
When I click it, it does not identify its host program in the title bar, only finder. I cannot resize or change the window in any way… there is only the ability to close it. I move if off to the side of the screen to investigate further. I open and close various programs, still there. I start activity monitor and look for any services running that may contribute to this… nothing jumped out at me, though I'm not sure what I'm looking for.
I figured it was because I had downloaded the Mac demo of CDGS2020. I want it to be great, the Mac version… but it’s never quite been as fully cooked as the PC counterpart, so I continue to use it in a VM. A little miffed at Corels apparent intrusion, I decide I’ll remove the demo from my machine. Wait… I already did? Thats right… my demo expired, and I tossed it in the trash, and emptied it some time ago... maybe a month or more? My PC version resides in a VM on my desktop... not even my laptop!
To be sure however, I did a search and spotlight returned a massive amount of data. My library folder is FULL of Corel files… gigs worth of information, not just a few pesky leftover files. The application is gone, but not the additional data.
So the question that begs to be asked, how was Corel able to serve up advertising to me, for software that was uninstalled from my Mac? I have never had another popup window suddenly appear like this before, offering ads, especially without identifying itself on my Mac. Especially after said software is supposedly removed from the computer? Which… with gigs of leftover data in my library folder, I would hardly consider this “removed”. Did the developers get sloppy?
A moot point, but when I hit the X to close the window finally, it rather awkwardly moved itself to the middle of my screen, and slowly scrolled itself out of site under my taskbar!
Anyone got any explanations? Corel? Care to explain?
Yep. No excuse for this. Corel is banished from my machines permanently.
They sure manage to piss a great many people off!
I do have to ask, why a MAC!
Why not a Mac?
I bought a Mac ten years ago so that I could create iOS apps. I found that the Mac was a much better fit for me than a Windows PC. I've had no difficulty being able to work cross platform with the exception of CorelDRAW.
CorelDRAW has a unique combination of CAD-like precision mixed with creative abilities and that's why I've used it for the past twenty-five plus years. I was very disappointed to discover that unlike Adobe products, the Mac version of CorelDRAW is nothing at all like the Windows version. I understand the reason why this is, but so great is the difference it's like learning an entirely new program. I'm currently unable to invest the time to climb that learning curve so I reluctantly uninstalled the trial.
This is obviously a YMMV situation, so do what makes you happy and don't worry about what others are doing. Kick ass! Make stuff!
Carpe Diem!
It's simple, performance. Unlike other machines computers (suffer less) from specialization, I.E. you can buy power and do 95% of everything. Yes some configurations are better at specific tasks but a $1,900 work station will do very wide types of work really well. It will be the best at some stuff but competitive at most stuff.
Asus main board, i9 9900, 64 gb ram, 6 gb NVidia graphics card, 1 TB SSD, 3 TB Western Digital secondary drive. Lots more, 3TB external backup, Fireside, Thunderbolt support, 8 USB3C connectors, a DVD/CD read write. I can buy a $3,000 display to add on and still be less than the cost of the lesser MAC tower alone.
A workable MAC laptop for me is over $4,000, I not only can get, but did get a better HP or Asus for $2,500, my wife's HP office machine would be over $3,000 if it was a MAC.
That's a very short list of why not a MAC.
The crap that Microsoft is doing deserves a class action lawsuit. The problem with Macs is the cost, and the lack of backwards incompatibility. On the Windows side, the problem is that Microsoft is trying to do whatever it wants on your PC and the consumer has no say in the matter. I strongly dislike that.
Explain what Microsoft is doing that can't be avoided, limited or undone by the user.