Synergy Advance is still in the early stages of its roll out so it does not yet feature all the features of Synergy (although it does feature some things that Synergy does not and never will have because of its architecture). By the time the roll out is complete Synergy Advance will do everything that Synergy can do and much more (see the road map).
[From Synergy Advance]
and yet it hasn’t been updated since MARCH 2007?! (And that was a beta!!!!)
and yet Synergy “Classic” is constantly updated…
3.5a (27 November 2007)
Rewrite in Objective-C 2.0.
This release is the first Leopard-only release of Synergy; for users of older versions of Mac OS X the 3.2 series is still available for download here.[From Synergy: history]
It’s updated every few weeks, and was completely rewritten… for Leopard only!? How is this a “successor” app?
I guess they say that Synergy Advance is a “preview”, and maybe that’s why it doesn’t have the urgency of keeping the ‘mature’ Synergy Classic polished and running… but I was hoping to be getting in on a cutting-edge product that would grow over time, yet it has remained pretty stagnant since I bought my license months ago…
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I fully agree. The stagnancy of Synergy Advance together with the lack of Leopard stability (it crashes whenever I try to do anything, including enter my serial number) make it useless to me.
I’ll be e-mailing and telling the author to trade my Synergy Advance license for a Synergy one. POS software, from where I’m sitting, whereas before Leopard I used it religiously.