Re: New Mac(s) for Work

2004-07-02 Thread Wayne
Thanks to everyone for their insightful thoughts. I have decided to go the pro route and get the G5's instead of more lower performance models. Even if the performance gap is not that dramatic or we could get by on non-pro models, in the near future the dual processors and 64 bit processing the

Re: New Mac(s) for Work

2004-07-01 Thread Wayne
I am starting a new job and now head up the Marketing and Creative services. I have the opportunity to request new hardware I feel we need. Since the entire department currently runs all graphic work from Dells, I want to request some Macs to simplify the graphics work and eliminate any design

Re: New Mac(s) for Work

2004-07-01 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 1, 2004, at 8:03 AM, Wayne wrote: I am starting a new job and now head up the Marketing and Creative services. I have the opportunity to request new hardware I feel we need. Since the entire department currently runs all graphic work from Dells, I want to request some Macs to simplify the

Re: New Mac(s) for Work

2004-07-01 Thread Mikael Byström
Wayne, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: but would it be so dramatic that we could not work efficiently with emacs (or imacs) instead? Wayne, Efficiently is the wrong aspect to investigate. To really know what you need, you'd have to measure typical tasks on each system and see whether the time difference

Re: New Mac(s) for Work

2004-07-01 Thread bee
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Mac(s) for Work Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 10:02:35 -0700 My question to the listers: I am considering a new G5, but the price of one of these plus display, I can get 3 top of the line