Digital BW, The Print

Chris,

> Do these issues apply to both Mac and PC?

I've never had the misfortune to own a Mac, so I can't answer this one. ;) 
In fact, I've never met anyone who does own a Mac, but I don't live in the 
USA which seems to be 'AppleLand'.

> My scratch disc is a 7200 external drive. Much of my problem may be that I
> have been using external firewire drives for my tif files, so clearly PS 
> has
> a lot of slower disc stuff to do. Would it make a lot of difference to get
> the image files onto the internal disc to work on it?

This depends a lot on the particular external drive, and how the motherboard 
handles it. I'm not sure you can generalise about it. I use a program called 
Sandra that analyses write/read speeds to drives (among a multitude of other 
things), but you had better find a similar program for Macs and simply do a 
test of the speed of your external drive against the speed of your internal 
drives. Internal drives are usually faster, but not always it seems.

> And finally, I looked for the "Northwood P4" but could not find it. Where
> did you purchase?

P4 processors are given various letters and codenames. The latest is P4E - 
Prescott. The previous versions are P4C - Northwood. Don't ask me what 
happened to P4D's. Prescott's are theoretically faster, but run much hotter, 
and some motherboards can't handle them.

We'd probably better drop this thread as it is OT and sure to annoy a lot of 
Mac users.

Bob Frost.