Digital BW, The Print

Bob-

Yes, lets get back to B&W printing.

I assume you're in the UK? Everytime I walk through Heathrow I think that
Brits are further along on all this stuff than us here in the US.

Thanks for all the help.

 -Chris 

 

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From: Bob Frost [mailto:bob@...] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 11:50 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Ideal Windows computer spec

 

*	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.


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