LOGOS 4: Available Now for Macintosh, as Well as PC
Macintosh users have been waiting for many long years for LOGOS to release a fully functioning version of LOGOS for Macintosh. I’m happy to report that this finally has happened. LOGOS 4 is available now for Macintosh. You can download the engine itself for free. Resources to use with it, of course, you must purchase.
I’m often asked by Macintosh users why we do not offer Accordance based resources. Unfortunately, in spite of our best efforts to work out a mutually agreeable business model with Accordance, this was not possible. Frankly, I remain convinced LOGOS is the best choice for Bible research software for both PC and MAC. My main reason for saying so is that LOGOS brings to the table an incomparable library of resources for Lutherans. I’m thinking here of Concordia Publishing House’s and Northwestern Publishing House’s many resources in LOGOS format. Additionally, LOGOS has powerful original language research tools, as well as a lot of other resources, for instance, the Church Fathers, and most recently, Intervarsity Press released the entire Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture in LOGOS format. You can download the LOGOS 4 for Mac engine, for free, and start getting your resources set up in it. *Warning* the time for the software to install, download all your registered resources, then index them all is very time consuming. Best to let this work be done by your computer while you snooze overnight.
Here is a video demonstrating just some of the features and benefits of LOGOS 4 for Macintosh.
[Accordance Evangelist Hat: ON]
The reason I use Logos 4 is for the Lutheran resources, which are both wonderful and powerful. In terms of actual linguistic or textual study, I still haven’t seen anything in Logos 4 that even comes close to the intuitiveness or speed of Accordance. This is doubly true now, with Accordance just releasing Version 9 last week.
I should also point out that Accordance has had the ACCS available for some time, and that Helen Brown from Accordance told me last week that they will be offering a similar plan for ACCS subscribers to get the digital edition.
[Accordance Evangelist Hat: OFF]
Having said all of that, if I were new to the computer bible study realm, unless I were planning on some real serious linguistic work, as a Lutheran I would be hard pressed to not go with Logos 4. The integration with TLSB, the Concordia Commentary, the People’s Bible, and others is really great. And the Concordia Collections are awesome and tremendously useful.
Cheers to CPH!
Peperkorn