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Mac OSX equivalent to Garden Composer
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<blockquote data-quote="kfander" data-source="post: 1191829" data-attributes="member: 108491"><p>Thank you for your responses. I had already looked at most of the programs suggested, but not all; and will certainly take a look at the others. I've seen some that would probably do the landscape design functions of Garden Composer, but the latter includes many features that I haven't seen in the others.</p><p></p><p>For example, Garden Composer interfaces with a plant encyclopedia of 15,000 plants, which includes trees, shrubs, flowers and vegetables, and allows for the user addition of other plants. Pretty much everything that I'd need to know about any of these plants is there in one place. Using the anticipated growth of various plants, I could see what it might be expected to look like in the future, say in ten years, or twenty. The basic design I could probably do with Google SketchUp, but Garden Composer offers a lot more than that. Most, if not all, of this is information that I have available to me in my own library, or could find online, but Garden Composer would allow me to add notes to its plant listings, with any additional information that I thought important, allowing me to have everything that I need in one place. Other nice features are the ability to set my plans over an imported aerial photo, sketch, or plat map of my property, and the capability of using GPS data for placement.</p><p></p><p>You've offered a few suggestions that I haven't looked at yet, so I'll do that now.</p><p></p><p>As for the problems that I've had with my MacBook, they've been there from the start. This being my first Mac, I just sort of assumed that it wasn't a very good product. We're two hundred miles from the nearest Mac repair shop. I brought it in once. They installed Onyx, which I run every now and then, but which doesn't really fix anything.</p><p></p><p>Looking online, I can see that I am not at all alone in having these problems with the 13" MacBook. Had I done that research beforehand, I would never have bought one. Since it doesn't even run the stuff that came with it very well (Safari, iTunes and iPhoto crash repeatedly), and I have to clean my cache out twice day in order to even use the thing, I would rather wait until I can get a MacBook Pro before adding Windows to it. Please don't misunderstand. My wife has an iMac and she hasn't had any problems that weren't easily fixed. I much prefer Mac over Windows, just not my particular Mac.</p><p></p><p>I mentioned these problems only by way of explaining why I had rejected the more obvious solution, which would be to run Windows on my Mac.</p><p></p><p>Added Later...</p><p></p><p>Although I've just begun looking at it, I am thinking that iGarden might work. As far as I can see, it doesn't have everything that Garden Composer has but it might have enough to be useful. Thanks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kfander, post: 1191829, member: 108491"] Thank you for your responses. I had already looked at most of the programs suggested, but not all; and will certainly take a look at the others. I've seen some that would probably do the landscape design functions of Garden Composer, but the latter includes many features that I haven't seen in the others. For example, Garden Composer interfaces with a plant encyclopedia of 15,000 plants, which includes trees, shrubs, flowers and vegetables, and allows for the user addition of other plants. Pretty much everything that I'd need to know about any of these plants is there in one place. Using the anticipated growth of various plants, I could see what it might be expected to look like in the future, say in ten years, or twenty. The basic design I could probably do with Google SketchUp, but Garden Composer offers a lot more than that. Most, if not all, of this is information that I have available to me in my own library, or could find online, but Garden Composer would allow me to add notes to its plant listings, with any additional information that I thought important, allowing me to have everything that I need in one place. Other nice features are the ability to set my plans over an imported aerial photo, sketch, or plat map of my property, and the capability of using GPS data for placement. You've offered a few suggestions that I haven't looked at yet, so I'll do that now. As for the problems that I've had with my MacBook, they've been there from the start. This being my first Mac, I just sort of assumed that it wasn't a very good product. We're two hundred miles from the nearest Mac repair shop. I brought it in once. They installed Onyx, which I run every now and then, but which doesn't really fix anything. Looking online, I can see that I am not at all alone in having these problems with the 13" MacBook. Had I done that research beforehand, I would never have bought one. Since it doesn't even run the stuff that came with it very well (Safari, iTunes and iPhoto crash repeatedly), and I have to clean my cache out twice day in order to even use the thing, I would rather wait until I can get a MacBook Pro before adding Windows to it. Please don't misunderstand. My wife has an iMac and she hasn't had any problems that weren't easily fixed. I much prefer Mac over Windows, just not my particular Mac. I mentioned these problems only by way of explaining why I had rejected the more obvious solution, which would be to run Windows on my Mac. Added Later... Although I've just begun looking at it, I am thinking that iGarden might work. As far as I can see, it doesn't have everything that Garden Composer has but it might have enough to be useful. Thanks. [/QUOTE]
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