I have been using Logos-4 for about 3 weeks for study and for PowerPoint slide production. Now, I have had enough. I have gone back to Logos-3. Logos-4 is much slower, is user-unfriendly, cannot do some things that I depend on, and does not do some things I depend as well as Logos-3.
Some examples:
1) start up time -- to load and get to reading a desired Bible verse takes about 2 times as long in Logos-4
2) search time -- time from hitting Return to seeing the verses takes twice as long in Logos-4
3) typing in "book chapter:verse" -- often Logos-4 is doing something else in the background, so the feedback is sluggish
3) copy/paste verses from Logos to PowerPoint -- Logos 4 has a mind of its own. Sometimes the entry of the verse selection into the copy frame does not update the selected verses; Copy/Paste to PowerPoint always creates a new slide; Copy and then goto PowerPoint and Paste does not pick up the style of the selected paste-to area, i.e. while creating a slide, copy and then paste does replace any selected text, but it changes the formatting -- creating extra work to fix the formatting.
4) copy verse list -- cannot do in Logos 4 (feature remove that worked fine in Logos 3)
I write this with the knowledge that I will be told I need to upgrade to a Quad-Core i7 to run all these features I never knew I needed.
MICHAELHBRANIGIN:I write this with the knowledge that I will be told I need to upgrade to a Quad-Core i7 to run all these features I never knew I needed.
If you upgraded to a Quad-core i7 Michael, you wouldn't be having these problems. (Didn't want to disappoint you.)
L3 is a good product, I am sure you will be happy using it with the new resources you gained when you upgraded. I still have it installed and use it for vocabulary lists.
MICHAELHBRANIGIN: I write this with the knowledge that I will be told I need to upgrade to a Quad-Core i7 to run all these features I never knew I needed.
Well Michael, part of the situation relates to what hardware you are using, I occasionally run LOGOS 4 on my netbook (ASUS 100HE w/2GB Ram and N270 ATOM) . This computer is suitable only for reading a text without searching/passage guide/sophisticated stuff (it bogs down when I have more than 20 or so notes in the text even). Then again, it gives me 8-10 hours of use on a single charge and is pretty readable. It is pathetic when using reverse interlinears / multiple passage guides/other study stuff. so its according to your usage. That said, my quad i7 iMac runs it pretty well but, as with all computers that I have used in my 40 years of using computers, is to slow.
LOGOS 3 is a well thought out and mature product that is not obsolete in any sense of the word. If it does your job well, more power to you. LOGOS 4 is different from LOGOS 3 in many ways, most of which I find to be superior to LOGOS 3. Enough so that I haven't spun up LOGOS 3 in ages. It appears that your mileage varies from mine. I hope that LOGOS keeps V3 available for many years to come to support people with slower/older computers on which LOGOS 4 is won't run fast enough.
Bob - 17" MBP quad 2.3GHz 4GB and iMAC
MICHAELHBRANIGIN: have been using Logos-4 for about 3 weeks for study and for PowerPoint slide production. Now, I have had enough. I have gone back to Logos-3. Logos-4 is much slower, is user-unfriendly, cannot do some things that I depend on, and does not do some things I depend as well as Logos-3.
I hated Logos 3 and never used it, always choosing to use an unnamed product by the competition. Logos 4, however, I love and use constantly. I seldom use that other product anymore either now. To each his own.