My only experience with a Mac so far has been setting up my mom's Color
Classic, and with no prior Maxperience I was surprised at how simple it was
to get the hang of. The only trick was learning the lingo - different terms
for the same thing. And a few concepts are a bit different. I'd happily
take an iMac DV, 'cept for that stupid mouse.
I've used PCs since Day One, only because it was necessary for work. I'm
not a fan nor do I revile 'em - they could be worse. Regarding Windon't, I
still use Win95 'cause I got fed up with the bugs and resource hogging of
Win98.
OTOH, I've had zero problems configuring scanners (parallel port and USB) to
work with the two PCs in our household. Yeah, I know about the potential
problems with BIOS, IRQ, drivers, blah-blah-blah, but in many cases the real
culprit is the company/person who put the machine together. The beauty (?)
of the PC is the ability to make it into whatever you want - within reason.
But, ya gotta consider the big picture - sometimes it's better to choose
components that are more industry-standard, even if it means sacrificing a
bit of performance. And I'm not a big performance hog - my main PC is still
a puny 90MHz Pentium with a mere 40MB RAM. Works fine for producing
webworthy images, tho' I wouldn't want to tackle 20MB TIFFs with it. The
other house PC is a 300MHz Pentium with 64MB RAM, but it lacks some of the
sophisticated innards of the other, like a video card configurable for color
calibration, etc. I'm never sure that images scanned and edited on it will
look right to others. And, to make matters worse, the monitor went all
greenish yesterday. Guess the blue gun went kaput.
OM content? Uhhh ... all the pix I've taken with my OM-1 and scanned into
the PC look *really* great. Lame, I know, but the best I can come up with
on short notice.
For any photographer who wants to share his/her images with the webworld,
it's hard to beat the plug 'n' go (I ain't applying PNP to the Mac)
convenience and overall standardization of the Mac. But ... and this is a
big but ... first time computer owners still seem to have more problems
getting a Mac (even the iMac) online than first time PC owners. Dunno why
that is.
Lex
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From: RobBurn@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] Re: Scanner woes and lack of them on Apple Mac
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 07:56:33 EDT
In a message dated 8/17/00 1:37:54 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
lexjenkins@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
<< I like 'em both, altho' my MacFondness is fairly recent. I'd happily
take
any suitable Mac and dedicate it to graphics work, while keeping a PC
handy
for web work and other chores. >>
My two cents worth.
Been a Mac user since the Mac Plus. Currently use a Performa 6360 with
450MHz
G3 L2 cache upgrade, 128Mb memory. Works great! Recently built myself a
450MHz , 256Mb PC100 memory, 13,6 Gb HD PC because I use a PC at work.
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