With this I would have to agree. In newspaper (prepress) I work with Macs all the time. Then I come home and do it for myself better and faster with a PC whose processor isn't supposed to be as up-to-date as the one in the G4 I work on. My lowly 400 mhz emachine can stay up for weeks on end processing all the miscellaneous crap my husband and I can dish out, while at work, my G4 (which had many bugs to be worked out) still crashes if too many applications are open at once. If only ya'll could hear the cursing and yelling on Tuesdays when we're getting our weeklies out ... Granted, I started working with PCs long before there was a Commodore 64 - just a keyboard plugged into a B+W TV. While Apple was making itself into a graphic design niche company, IBMs and their clones were developing sheer number-crunching capability. For a while, Macs did have the better OS. But now PCs can handle the graphics programs with the ease of the Macs. Add to that the multitasking, number-crunching capabilities PCs already possessed and the fact that Apple didn't seem to see this coming, no wonder they feel the pinch. Several newspapers have switched to PCs for the money they'll save on systems alone, not to mention being able to run graphics and accounting systems all off the same platform. If the downturn in the economy holds for a while, I think more will follow.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 6:30 PM Subject: Re: Windows XP - Scary! (Was=3 A OT: A computer question...) > > However for seasoned PC users there are now no real obstacles for using PC > in a photo-graphics environment and in fact I would say now maybe PC's > actually have the advantage over Macs (this is of course if they have been > set up by someone who knows what they are doing, and the Microsoft team > who wrote the install routines don't). My desk-top is available in the time that > it takes my monitor to warm up, it is secure as I log off and it is all run by a > lowly 300MHz processor. > > WRT stability I can only say that my working W2K work-station gets flogged, > daily it sees Photoshop, email, excel, word, pdf writing/reading, pdf > generation, web/java development and testing, film scanning, mp3 coding, > mp3 playing/mixing, ftp, database design, CD writing, batch image > compression, image database etc.. I had to shut it down before I went > travelling last and it had been up for 85 days continuously (remember I am > not talking about a server, my NT4 server had been up for over a year) and > had transferred over 1,000 million 1kB packets to and from my network. > > I would like to see a Mac do this, having worked in and served the pre-press > industry I can tell you that I have never seen this type of stability. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
