Digital BW, The Print

Julian, don't underestimate learning curves and bang for the buck! Both Mac 
and new Generation PC's are very powerful and at very attractive prices. 
People prefer what they are used to. A switch to Win 2000 or XP based machine 
would be nothing compared to switching to a Mac System for the first time. 
Many of my relatives use Mac machines but they drive me nuts!(macs) I'm 
constantly saying to myself why do they do it this way and I'm sure the Mac 
people say the same thing about PC's. Most people support what they know. I 
Just  upgraded to a New PC and yes I did look at the G4 Mac's My 1200.00 
dollars got me a 1800Xp Athlon system with a gig of ram ect, ect. The 1800xp 
Athlon is equal to or faster than a 2 Gigahertz Pent IV in most of the 
photoshop functions I use. This power is in the Ball park10-12% with a 
733mhz? G4 single processor. Check the price on those! About 3000$ You say 
you print with the Piezo driver, these are grey scale files much smaller than 
RGB files you might want that G5 or dual processor Mac for. Why not save some 
money and put it towards something else. A 7000? piezo pro 2? High end 
scanner? 21in monitor? My Grey scales files are about 120 mb from  4X5 negs. 
This Athlon system has photoshop cutting threw them like butter. Well almost 
:)  I probably will dump the XP os and Load Win 2k. Its too early for a 
verdict on XP and I'am irratated at having to find xp drivers. I'm very happy 
with the Photoshop power I'am getting for 1200.00 If you use strange special 
effects filters in PS or multi layered files , Then I would look at little 
harder at the Mac....
Steve Meyers
In a message dated 12/20/2001 2:53:13 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
julianthomas@... writes:


> I'm philosophically opposed to XP where you have to ask uncle Bill's
> permission to fire up or make significant changes to the spec of the
> machine, and I'm thinking about a Mac with OS X. My main use is for
> scanning, PS and then outputting via the piezo driver. Has anyone who has
> used both platforms any recomendations?
> 
> Julian
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