Mike, Just interesting food for thought - I found out that the underlying OS for the Agfa D-Labs is Windows 2000. One wonders why they made that decision. One angle could be connectivity.
Bruce Sunday, January 12, 2003, 11:47:25 AM, you wrote: >> Whine, whine, whine, Mac mac mac.. versus whine whine whine, PC PC PC. >> >> I hearby nominate this sort of useless argument to the same field as gun >> talk. Stupid. pointless, and bound to aggravate everyone involved. >> >> So, you disagree with the firearm discussions, and I'm going to vehemently >> disagree with this thread. Matter of fact, if this is what's going ot >> start upo, I'm afraid I'm going to have to start threads on firearms. MJ> You could always do what I did during the firearms discussion and simply MJ> leave the list for the duration. The other alternative is censorship, MJ> unfortunately. MJ> I agree that this is generally a useless, aggravating discussion. However, I MJ> think the fact that professional photographers, publishers, and graphic MJ> designers have all standardized on Macs and Photoshop is something that MJ> people should be reminded of once in a while. It serves as a corrective to MJ> the constant propaganda that "all serious computer users use PCs." Macs are MJ> not a fringe product in my world. The magazine publishers I've worked for in MJ> my life have collectively published 56 different newsstand magazines. All MJ> were put together exclusively on Macs. I don't have the widest experience in MJ> the world, but I've been around some, and I have yet to see a single MJ> "creatives" shop--graphics design, advertising, or professional photography MJ> studio--that was running PCs. I'm sure the exceptions exist, but that MJ> doesn't change the prevailing norms. MJ> Some people might be interested in these facts. And, unfortunately, it is MJ> far more germane to a photography discussion site than most topics relating MJ> to firearms. I wish it weren't so--I'd personally be happier if digital MJ> never existed, and the days of film photography were never going to end. But MJ> that's not the reality. Hey, man, replacing the darkroom with computers MJ> wasn't *my* choice! MJ> --Mike
