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Does Articulate have any plans to make a Mac OS compatible version of Storyline?
Or any other products?
Since COVID I've been logging into the company VPN on my MacBook Pro and using Microsoft Remote Desktop to remote in to my office PC to use Storyline. I've gotten pretty used to it, but sure would be nice if I could run directly from a Mac!
I suspect their reluctance to make a version for the Mac is solely because, this would mean they have to develop a 64bit version. Which for whatever reason they have not done. Lack of 64 bit support causes many of us 'out of memory' and crashing issues. 64 bit has been out 20 years now, Articulate Storyline would get a performance increase if they did and it would set itself up for a Mac version.
Our company uses Macs and we are using Boot Camp Assistant. I recommend it, but we still need a 64 bit version for Windows and Mac.
Adam
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Well, that would probably explain why Storyline was so much of a poop show lately with Oracle Virtualbox. I was getting severe freezing and crashing from simple things like going into the player menu / attachments section. Parallels seems to handle it better, but that ended up entailing a $150 / year license just for this bloody application. 😡
I have put a ticket into tech support for a 64 bit version. They have tried multiple times to cure the crashing and out of memory problem for me and my team. All work arounds have failed, this is pure and simple a 64 bit issue. SL is a 32 bit application, therefore it can only address 4 GB of memory, anything extra you have is of no real benefit. A 64 bit system can address all of your ram and more, this massively helps the stability and functionality of the application.
Like others on here I know many who are actively looking at other solutions. We are ourselves doing the same, one of which doesn't use a standard off the shelf eLearning application, which provides unlimited flexibility.
Good luck and stay safe
