Digital BW, The Print

Julian-

XP is not your only choice (I agree very strongly that supporting Bad 
Bill on this one will only make the next one unbearable)... But 
Windows 2000 really gives you everything XP has except that it takes 
longer to reboot... Really that's about it. For what you are going to 
use it for, a good windows box will be a lot cheaper and more 
flexible. The plug and play really does work and that's 80% of the 
hassle with windows; it's definitely rock solid and crashes about 2% 
as often as windows 98.

OS X is a nice system... I put it on my wife's G4 cube and it is 
elegant... But the limited amount of software available for it makes 
it a weak competitor for now... Also a lot of software manufacturers 
now do not give you a windows and mac version on the cd...separate 
purchases (which is really making us rethink our dual platform 
choice... Even with Virtual PC). While the mac is elegant... it is 
definitely no more stable than W2K... Both are industrial strength 
systems.

Even in the graphics world, windows has caught up with mac... I'd say 
go with the easier and cheaper solution.

Tom O'Connell


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Moreno Polloni" <mp@d...> 
wrote:
> > thinking that way you would not have to give up stepping into the 
Mac
> world.
> > maybe someone not willing to spend so much money could go to a 
used G3/G4,
> > great computers to get some use to the Mac OS stuff. In the case 
that
> person
> > feels fine s/he could upgrade to the ultimate Mac available. Say 
the G5
> when