Just looking for some friendly advice regarding a (hopefully soon)
purchase. I'm feeling the need to upgrade. I currently use a G4
Quicksilver 733mhz/40g/640 ram running OS 10.3.9. This machine is used
for graphic design/illustration, internet/email, and storing digital
photos that never get printed. The graphics apps I use the most are
Freehand 9, Quark 4, Photoshop 6, and GoLive 6 - some of which are still
running in Classic. I plan to upgrade my software to Adobe CS2, Freehand
and possibly Quark. I don't do any heavy video, music or animation work,
and I'm not a gamer (although I'd really like to try that new star wars
lego game). I'd like to be rid of the beige behomoth CRT monitor, and
I'd like to avoid some of the noticible slowdowns in Freehand.
I tend to think that the iMac G5 20" would be a good way for me to
upgrade both the cpu and monitor on a budget. I won't need to upgrade my
older printer and scanner right away - I've found 3rd party
software/drivers for those to work in OS X - I think just an adapter for
the scanner and it'll work. Considering I've used this G4 for 4 years,
and it's a single processor, and so little ram - wouldn't I be happy
with a single processor iMac G5 for a few years? Or do I really need a
dual processor for the CS2 apps?
Also, when the time comes for me to shop for a new scanner, how do I
find one that is good at scanning line art? All the reviews I see talk
about photos and slides, but rarely do they mention scanning line art or
the quality of software for scanning line art (which is why, for now,
I'm sticking with the beige behomoth scanner and 3rd party software).
Any thoughts/advice appreciated.
Kathy K
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