Re: [Finale] Speed of Mac Finale 2003

2002-10-05 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 10:35 PM 10/4/02 -0800, Mark D. Lew wrote: $500 is dirt cheap? That's some fancy dirt. Sure, compared to what I paid for 32K of memory for my first computer in 1977! Seriously, building one high-end system that will last 18 months is $1 a day. I work in front of my machine 8-plus hours a

Re: [Finale] Speed of Mac Finale 2003

2002-10-05 Thread Javier Ruiz
I have to invest an average of 3.500 $ a year in my computers/software system. But that is tax deductible. My last toys are a couple of Genelec 1029 active monitors... [Every night I take them with me to bed.] Just my 350,000 cents. Javier. P.S. In my case is like 10$ a day for being

Re: [Finale] Speed of Mac Finale 2003

2002-10-05 Thread David W. Fenton
On 4 Oct 2002 at 22:35, Mark D. Lew wrote: I'm not sure what the story is in Australia, but here in the US, systems are dirt cheap to build these days, so if screen drawing is an issue and you're struggling for horsepower, you can put together a very fast system using standard components and

Re: [Finale] Speed of Mac Finale 2003

2002-10-04 Thread Jari Williamsson
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz writes: Is screen redrawing still an issue? What's the speed of your system? How much RAM? What video card? The screen redrawing hasn't been especially noticeable to me for several years (since a Celeron 450MHz, 384MB RAM, Matrox 200(?) -- now using Athlon 1.4GHz, 512 MB

Re: [Finale] Speed of Mac Finale 2003

2002-10-04 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 01:03 AM 10/4/02 -0400, Tim wrote: Second post--I had misread Matthew's post. Like Éric, I noticed more sluggishness, especially when using on my PowerBook 400 (to Dennis: which isn't quite as easy to upgrade video-wise as a desktop box). Same problem with PC laptops. I was just

Re: [Finale] Speed of Mac Finale 2003

2002-10-04 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 11:50 AM 10/4/02 +0200, Jari wrote: How do you run MacOS on the Athlon processor? Switch! :) Seriously, as I just mentioned in the post responding to Tim Thompson, you can constantly jack up speed and peripherals cheaply with PCs to keep up with increasing CPU and storage demands -- while

Re: [Finale] Speed of Mac Finale 2003

2002-10-04 Thread Tim Thompson
On 10/4/02 6:17 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:03 AM 10/4/02 -0400, Tim wrote: Second post--I had misread Matthew's post. Like Éric, I noticed more sluggishness, especially when using on my PowerBook 400 (to Dennis: which isn't quite as easy to upgrade video-wise as

[Finale] Speed of Mac Finale 2003

2002-10-03 Thread Matthew Hindson
I've downloaded and installed the Finale 2003 demo, and there are some nice new features in there (e.g. automatic left-justification of syllables beginning melismas (or whatever you set the justification to be)). I like the new, spacious cosmetic layout changes in so many of the dialog boxes. On

Re: [Finale] Speed of Mac Finale 2003

2002-10-03 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 08:00 AM 10/4/02 +1000, Matthew Hindson wrote: What seemed most useful, however, was an apparent increase in screen redrawing speed when dealing with large files. Has anyone else come across this yet? Or is it just my imagination? Is screen redrawing still an issue? What's the speed of your

Re: [Finale] Speed of Mac Finale 2003

2002-10-03 Thread Éric Dussault
Le jeudi, 3 oct 2002, à 18:00 America/Montreal, Matthew Hindson a écrit : What seemed most useful, however, was an apparent increase in screen redrawing speed when dealing with large files. Has anyone else come across this yet? Or is it just my imagination? Although screen redrawing is