From: "Don Roberts" : > : Please bear in mind that, especially in the graphics field, a lot of : people still use the Macs. If you have a question, or a an answer, try : to be a little more OS specific. No one wants to waste time going to : web sites and downloading software which won't work on their machine. : And quite a few sites, and people, take it for granted that you are : using Windows so don't bother with system requirements. In all cases, : the more information one provides with their question the more useful : the answers will be. : Don, adamant Apple user since the Apple II came out many years ago. I keep forgetting that, since the majority of the graphics people here have moved over to PC's (windows OS ) mind you, with the new PC/Mac hybrids soon any mac user will be free to run windows apps on dual boot systems if they choose. There are also a number of people who've already made use of the leaked OS to run Mac's on their PC's, alternating OS's as they see fit.. or running the various processes inside emulators. Not a bad way to do things especially if you can use faster software available on one OS that's not available on others. http://os-emulation.net/virtualpc20.html Admittedly one might not want to run a WHOLE windoze environment inside a Mac, but for those who are interested, the barebones or a stripped down OS with whatever software one might need can be a very handy thing and relatively simple to set up. Liteshell is a nice Windows shell that uses little system resources and might speed things up even further, then there's win98lite - an OS stripper that guts the shell completely removing OE,IE and a number of other pesky M$ components that one really does not need. Of course most people will not want to interfere with their system/OS but when there's something you might REALLY want to run, the minimal cost of an emulator beats the heck out of purchasing another machine! A lot of windows users do this already whenever they run a DOS box. Here's some user reports on emulators : http://www.macwindows.com/sw955.html http://www.macwindows.com/windata2.html the reason I often write with information about software is that I know for pro's and amateurs alike, time savings can mean a big difference both in productivity and the users experience - positive or negative. I'm not trying to be an OS snob, but see it rather that people might potentially be interested in finding solutions *wherever* they may lie. A time saving approaching exceeding 400-fold can make or break a business! 1 hour, 400 hours. big difference, irrespective of one's hourly rate! I honestly have had people buy PC's on the strength of an Irfanview demonstration alone, stunned by the speed and mentally measuring the dollars and time saved, they've imagined and then seen a huge increase in productivity. I've earned more than a few bottles of wine out of these demo's :) I've even had one photographers WIFE thank me, saying she now gets to see him on weekends and evenings where before he was busy processing images!! I'm not claiming credit for the program, I've actually been happy just to share If I found a linux or Beos program that worked as fast or faster, I would mention that instead. I'll try to be clear that I'm advocating a Windows software/freeware package next time I suggest the likes of sgbnr, neatimage or irfanview. k
