Instead of growling on the list..talk to the BD rep! The Target release
from BD is the end of this month ....for G4 ACQ upgrades and OS9 "Fully"
compatible version of CellQuest. The Software upgrade is supposed to cost
~$450 and the G4 upgrade around $3800. I've heard this from BD tech support
and two BD sales reps. And give them a lil credit: re-writing acquisition
software for a major architechture shift as we have with the G4 is not a
simple matter.
If you own a BD instrument...harass BD..the reps are usually (in my
experience) pretty helpful if there is something within their control. If
you upgraded to OS9 without checking for compatibility first, consider it an
object lesson...{C'mon with Apple's track record?.} just because they
upgrade the OS DOES NOT mean they improved it! Remember the MacOS 7.5 to
8.0 issues??? And in the end, if it isn't broke...why "FIX" it???
Version stability with MAC OS and Acq Hardware has never been good with
Apple.
>As to original problem of CellQuest on a G4 I can see two solutions -
>give up on CellQuest (give FlowJo a try!) or keep pestering BD to
>come up with the patch to allow CellQuest to work with OS9.0.
>
>Adrian
OK Flow JO is great ANALYSIS software, for most things....but it still will
not Acquire data, allow back gating of populations and is not the easiest
for "Graphical" Analysis...so the mantra of "dumping" Cellquest and moving
to FlowJo is over simplistic at best and is only a solution for those who
never touch the FACS their data comes from in the first place. And it still
isn't available for the PC platform, so once again, it is not a cure-all.
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