Digital BW, The Print

Strange special effects filters like 'unsharp mask'?  :)

>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:
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>  > 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?
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