>> I'm (as we say in England) dead chuffed. I snagged a 27 Gb ATA hard disk >> on ebay USA for 60 bucks and it came yesterday morning. I've managed to >> stack it with the existing 6 GB and it all works. I now have a 27 GB >> partitioned into 20 and 7, and the old 6 GB is now devoted to Photoshop >> as a scratch disk. The 27 Gig is a 7200 rpm drive and boy does that make >> a difference from 5600! This Mac flies!
>I'm not sure I understand. With that 6meg drive your Mac must be quite old. >Not exactly a G4, heh? 6 Gig. It's a 1999 machine that I paid 450 GBP for. New, it was three times that. It had loads of RAM and I like the colour <g>. It's fast enough for me. I don't buy new computers anymore - if i did, I wouldn't be able to afford more than one. We curently have 6 Macs in the house! Sure I'd like a newer faster machine, but to be honest, with the file sizes I work with, I just don't need the extra speed. Running a filter on an A3 image at 300 ppi doesn't take long at all. Okay, a G4 would be faster, but half of nothing is still nothing <g>. >I sometimes wonder about all the Mac v Win stuff. Apples to Nuts >comparisons. The latest PC platforms have that new 3 ghz Intel chip that >seems to be loaded with Alpha (DEC) features, It is suposed to be an >interesting graphics machine. Alas, it only runs XP Professional at the >present. Get a Unix clone running on it and it should fly. Don't sneer at >Unix clones, or you can not use Mac OS X <grin>. I sneer not at anyone's choice of computer - I can only tell you how much fun I have. I'm on 9.1 - I still hear too many nasty stories about OS X. If the shoe fits.... Best, Cotty ____________________________________ Free UK Macintosh Classified Ads at http://www.macads.co.uk/ ____________________________________ Oh, swipe me! He paints with light! http://www.macads.co.uk/snaps/ ____________________________________
