Re: (off-topic) cheap graphics station

1998-04-17 Thread C.J.LAWSON
I simply do NOT agree with that .. from my own PAINFUL experience P90's are not worth their weight in worthlessness!! Other points taken J. === In any war, the first casualty is the truth.

Re: (off-topic) cheap graphics station

1998-04-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 07:02:17PM +, George R wrote: > On 04/11/98 at 10:13 PM, Marcus Brinkmann > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >The Gimp is sucking memory like a vampire bat. You can easily use 100 MB > >when processing a screen size image (well, 100MB and more. You can easily > >suck all a

Re: (off-topic) cheap graphics station

1998-04-11 Thread George R
On 04/11/98 at 10:13 PM, Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >The Gimp is sucking memory like a vampire bat. You can easily use 100 MB >when processing a screen size image (well, 100MB and more. You can easily >suck all available memory). A memory hog; is it from M$ ;) >Gimp is plain coo

Re: (off-topic) cheap graphics station

1998-04-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 02:58:26PM +, George R wrote: > On 04/11/98 at 12:58 AM, Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Well, the dual is mine; he can't have it! I guess a better way to ask the > question would be: Am I better off making him his own stand alone box with > 16/24/32/48/64 meg _OR

Re: (off-topic) cheap graphics station

1998-04-11 Thread George R
On 04/11/98 at 12:58 AM, Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >The p90 is a good start. The dual is over kill unless he is doing >extremely intense modeling (which intel was never truly the best at >anyway). GIMP, Midnight Creator, and the soon to be released Blender are >things to look into for him

Re: (off-topic) cheap graphics station

1998-04-11 Thread Shaleh
The p90 is a good start. The dual is over kill unless he is doing extremely intense modeling (which intel was never truly the best at anyway). GIMP, Midnight Creator, and the soon to be released Blender are things to look into for him as well. It is nice to see a parent who cares, from one whose

(off-topic) cheap graphics station

1998-04-11 Thread George R
I need some help. My son shows promise with his art. He saw one of my friends working(his job) with CorelDraw. Love at first sight. He won't stop begging for his own pc to run CorelDraw. Several small problems exist: 1) I have a no MS rule. 2) can't really afford a lot of new expensive hardwar