My old computer's processor & memory survived the system meltdown last month, and I had an old AGP video card, CD and CDR dirves, and an unused Win98 license. I scrounged around and found a new slot A Athlon motherboard for a cheap price. Add a power supply, hard drive and network card I basically brought back my old system for only a couple hundred bucks. The 950mhz Athlon is not a speed demon, the 4x burn speed on the CDR is definately obsolete, but it grinds through scans just fine and the drive is partitioned so I can backup my main PC to it, and my wife can backup her laptop to it. The KVM switch lets me pop back and forth between the two systems easily.
Now I just have to find a decent backup program. So I can stop dragging and dropping directories around.
- MCC
At 10:13 AM 9/28/2003 -0400, Paul Stenquist wrote:
I'm using dual monitors for my PhotoShop work. My viewing monitor is an LCD, the 21 inch Apple Cinema Display at 1680 x 1050. For tools I use an old Sylvania 19 inch monitor. The Sylvania runs at 1280 x 1024. I'm using them with a MAC G4 dual processor 1.25, so it was already set up for two monitors. This arrangement has really taken the kinks out of my scanning/retouching/printing work flow. I was using the Sylvania alone before getting the new equipment, and I couldn't really tell how sharp a scan was until I printed it. With the LCD monitor I can see the grain, even on medium format or 4x5 scans. Paul
----- Mark Cassino Kalamazoo, MI -----
Photography:
http://www.markcassino.com
