Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "ellery" <ellery@...> wrote:
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> This may be OT but there is no such thing as a stable platform. I have been told this by 
the graphics people at several offset film houses. When worked to the limit, the Mac hangs 
with a regularity that has all of them saving files of work in progress with religious feavor. 
SNIP

Don't want to start a MAC/PC swing fest, but I must protest your allegation from the 
"graphics people at several offset film houses", that MACS pressed to the limit will "hang 
with regularity". 

This may have been true with the old OS, but not so with the latest incarnations of OSX! I 
press my "old" dual 867 G4 all the time, and can't think of the last time I had my system 
crashed. Regularly run PS7 in Classic(this crashes occassionally) PS CS, & InDesign 2 
concurrently with 2 gig of RAM, and Hard Drives maxed out with 4--160 gig.

Also, I've found that Windoz XP, SP2 seems quite stable also. But my experience with the 
Windoz is limited to my wife's 3-year-old lap top, not running anything nearly as pressing 
as my MAX's.

John Nollendorfs