>After five years of loyal service and constant use, my Mac G3 300 died. >The cause of death is unknown at this time, but it wouldn't boot even >with a system disc in the CD drive and all the other drives >disconnected. Probably a mother board failure.Since most of my work is >now scanned color images for both internet stock and prints, I had to >replace it right away. Fortunately, the introduction of the very nice >and very fast G5 has dropped G4 prices precipitously. Thus I was able to >land a G4 dual processor 1.25 gig for $1500. With a gig and a quarter of >ram and a firewire scratch disk, PhotoShop flies. I also added the Apple >20 inch cinema display, which cost almost as much as the computer. But >it was worth it. Given a 3200 dpi, 150 meg scan from my Epson 3200 at >100%, I can easily see the grain structure of 6x7 Provia 100F at 100%. >Never saw that before. Didn't know the scanner was that accurate or that >the monitor could display an image at that kind of resolution. But I'm >pleased, very pleased.
Nice one Paul. I'm green with envy. My Photoshop station is a Blue and White G4 450 with 1Gb RAM and 2 drives (Cotty-built custom double-decker internal drive carrier that has to be seen to be believed) under X.2.5 and I'm finding some tasks go a little slower than I would like - even if I'm fiddling with puny little digicam files compared to your 67 scans ;-) Sounds like the combo of lightning fast computer and decent screen makes for an awesome package. Well done. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _____________________________ Free UK Mac Ads www.macads.co.uk
