Digital BW, The Print

On Jan 22, 2005, at 12:21 PM, Paul Roark wrote:
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>  I suspect it's just easiest & cheaper for most to go with the system 
> they're
>  familiar and have.
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>  Paul
>  www.PaulRoark.com

I agree.  Or, one goes with the platform required.  In the world of my 
other interest, which is music, one of the major music programs, Logic, 
was bought by Apple a couple of years ago, and PC support was 
discontinued, which really pissed off a lot of Logic users, and I can't 
blame them.  So what did they do?  They bought Macs. And some of them 
were disappointed in the performance, too- while Mac was the 
frontrunner for many years in music, PC is actually faster and performs 
better in some ways. It's a lot easier to buy a new machine and learn 
to use it than it is to learn to use a new deep application.  For me, 
who has used Mac only, I'm about to go the other way:  I've decided to 
eventually get set up with StudioPrint and Piezotone inks in either my 
9500 0r 7600.  This will require buying a PC, because there is no Mac 
version of StudioPrint.  And while I'm at it, I'll buy a PC with enough 
balls to run Gigastudio, which is a PC music sample library. (Just 
about any PC would be adequate for graphics.  Not true of music.)   
Years ago PCs seemed so clunky and so unreliable and so me-too that the 
idea of having one was really unpleasant to me.  Today, with XP 
especially, I doubt that there's much quality difference between the 
two platforms, and some diehard Mac users will admit that PCs are 
actually better for some things- music on a laptop, for one. If it 
weren't for StudioPrint, though, I'd stay where I am:  happy with a G5.

James Irelan