on 9/27/2001 16:15, Nick Harman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You guys talk like you're all freelance workers. Like me, although I only > use word.
I am a freelancer. I do most of my design work for one company but am payed as a contractor. This is nice since it leaves me free to earn more money by taking other jobs if I need to. > Freelancers won't spend anymore on overheads than necessary. Certainly they > wont want to spend on a new os and new apps when their present setup runs > fine. Why bother? I don't fall into this category. I'm a geek. Both hardware and software. I program as well as design and I built my own PIII box for the fun of it at the beginning of the year. I've got OSX installed on my main machine but even then I took the precaution of doing it on a drive separate from my normal OS and all my work files. > And as for studios, most of the ones I know are running osx on one machine > only and purely out of interest. They arent going to put any fresh eggs > into any new baskets. This I will agree with. Color management isn't nearly what it should be under OSX. There are many printers that do NOT have OSX drivers yet. My Xerox C410 is one of them. OSX will print basic stuff using the generic drivers but if I want any of the special (and occasionally very important features) that are built into the printer I have to go back to 9 to use them. There's really no compelling reason for any studio to switch until InDesign, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash etc... are available as native apps. Even then as I said above, X needs better color management. > The sad thing is that many of them are now increasingly running photoshop, > quark, dreamweaver et al on NT. More and more designers are leaving college > having learnt these things on windows. Its stable, its fast etc I've got the entire Macromedia suite on my PIII box under Win2K Pro. I've never had any of the apps crash and the machine is stable as a rock. I love the ease of use on the Mac. I love everything about my Macs. If I'd learned on Win2K Pro though I'd see no reason to switch. Despite my dislike for Micro$oft they got that operating system right. -- 90% of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at. -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
