Digital BW, The Print

Worth it? You mean worth the presumed higher price, Lin?

When I last needed to upgrade, Apple seemed to me to have lost or be 
losing the competitive advantage it had had for "graphics" - images, 
graphic design, typography, etc. So I priced both a Mac desktop and a 
similarly robust Dell desktop to see if the Mac was worth the 
difference. But there was no difference to speak of, and what little 
there was got swamped by the cost of the software I would have had to 
"crossgrade". So I got another Mac. But if I had been on a WinTel 
machine, I'm sure I would have gotten another one of those instead.

Now I need to upgrade again. But this time, if I ever have any money 
again, I'm thinking about turning my old Mac desktop into a 
scan-and-print server and networking it with a dual-display 
desktop-replacement notebook. Again either Mac or WinTel.

I'm delighted Lin has volunteered to do the rest of my homework for me. 8)

For starters I'm eager to know whether an EIZO ColorEdge display can 
be used both in portrait and in landscape orientation on either 
platform? I've heard LCD's are starting to re-orient on demand much 
as the old Radius Pivot monitors did? Making it easy to live with a 
much smaller image display I assume. An 11x14 image will just fit - 
life size - in landscape (and portrait?) mode on the 19-inch 
ColorEdge.
--
Sam, who did not get a ColorEdge for Christmas (yet)


>I'm sure this has been been discussed ad infinitum even if it is sort
>of OT, but searching the archive seems to require more ingenuity and
>patience than I have.  Could someone direct me to a link?  another
>forum? a useful thread on this forum where this question is discussed?
>  Email me with an opinion? My apologies for the question but thanks
>for any direction,  Lin