Digital BW, The Print

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>
> 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.

Not to contribute to Mac/PC issues, either, but to attest to the  
current Mac OS being far more stable than Mac OSes of old.  I have  
had days in the past which were spent on things like reformatting and  
reinstalling- hours and hours forfeited to just getting back to point  
zero.  That hasn't happened in years.  Even if something like a wrong  
driver or piece of hardware is causing kernel panics, which have to  
be fixed before you can do anything- once you do fix it, you're ok.   
You're not left with a disk full of hosed data.  I run a couple of  
routine maintenance utilities, do permissions whenever I install  
anything, and that's all it takes anymore.  Much better than a few  
years ago.

James