On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 08:41 PM, Crystal Premo wrote:
I will be buying a new computer soon, so I seek your advice. I have seen some of your remarks about OSX, and followed various past threads about the pros and cons about PC's vs. MAC.One advantage of a Mac is that the PC emulator VirtualPC <http://www.connectix.com/products/vpc6m.html> works very well. I make plugins with it and many people use it to cater to both markets but still have the advantages of the Mac--in our case, there's absolutely no doubt about the advantages of PostScript and PDF printing (or files) straight out of the box. And a PDF clipboard which can be converted to other graphics formats. In addition, batch printing from the command line that can really speed up a project if there are associated files like TIFFs, JPEGs, HTML, text, .ps, PDFs, etc., in a folder. You can just cue the whole folder for printing and continue working (or go for lunch if you have enough paper in the printer).
It's also a fully Unix capable environment capable of running several thousand (free) applications for that platform. Big ones. Like an XWindows "Office" package which can handle lots of M$ imports and exports. Not that you'd necessarily need it if you are familiar with the TeX/LaTeX document processing system or other utilities like EMACS.
Other software includes iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iCal, a decent email application, Address Book, text editor (can drop in graphics), scripting facilities, CD/DVD burning, Acrobat Reader, and (doubt if you're interested) a complete development environment which handles and integrates 5 major programming categories.
Not to mention the excellent new Safari browser or OmniWeb (in addition to IE, Netscape variants, and several others).
HTH,
Philip Aker
http://www.aker.ca
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