Re: Behind The Times
Re: Behind The Times
- Subject: Re: Behind The Times
- From: Kim Christiansen <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 10:15:47 -0800
Unfortunately Sid, this isn't a good comparison. It would be more accurate
to say that Nick was moving from Win98 to WinXP, and there are a LOT of good
reasons for such a move. Your comparison is more like moving from 10.2 to
10.3. (As Windows 2000 and Windows XP are marketing names for NT5 and NT5.1
respectively)
Ultimately, whether to upgrade an OS requires a business decision be made.
Questions to ponder:
- is there a compelling business reason to change or upgrade my systems?
- Can I become more productive with this new software and/or hardware?
- What will the final cost be with software and hardware upgrades and any
additional help needed from outside resources to complete the upgrade?
- What will the ROI be and what do I find an acceptable payback period?
If you're a home or hobbyist user not involved in a production process the
question becomes one of the acceptable level of cost, pain and aggravation.
All of which are subjective to the individual user.
OSX is a wondrous OS, it is fast, stable and kicks butt in color management.
That being said, the upgrade process can be costly in terms of software and
hardware.
Nick, I'd look at your existing system carefully, if it's a G4 from the last
couple of years (i.e.-a quicksilver or newer) then you should be able to
upgrade to 10.3 without a hitch in the hardware area. Your other questions
remain germane and I will leave it to others with experience with those
products under OSX to answer them. The only problem you may have is that OS9
will not see a SCSI card when running under Classic mode. You can check with
your SCSI card manufacturer to see if they have an OSX driver or if the card
is OSX compatible, some are, some aren't. I believe Silverfast is indeed OSX
compatible, but you may wish to visit their website and see if they have any
updates to your software package. Also, remember, you need to re-install
Photoshop 7 once inside OSX otherwise problems will ensue. I have no
information on the other two products you mentioned.
Good luck,
--
Kim Christiansen
The MacSmith
Studio Systems Consulting
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web: www.themacsmith.cc
Telephone 206-229-7725
member: Apple Consultants Network
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From: Sid Phillips <email@hidden>
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Unless you have an essential application that will only run under OSX I
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would not change a thing, stay right where you are. That's the biggest
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reason I haven't moved from W2K to XP. I might be missing an awful lot not
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running XP, but since everything works, and I don't have any downtime, and
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my workflow hums along, and I'm as productive as I need to be, and my
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customers are delighted with my work... why ask for trouble?
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"I get great results with 9.2, prints matching my
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screen, and am still wondering why I am doing this, but many people
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tell me X is so great and I do see some interesting features that I
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would like to use. Thanks.
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Nick"
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