On 28/2/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: >The important concerns here for me are do I need to be competent on a Mac to >be competent in the industry?
What industry? >Which system will give >me a more productive workflow specifically working with graphics >applications? Unknown. Only you can decide that after trying both. >I build my own PC's, can I do the same effectively with a >Mac? Yes. > When a component gives me a problem, can I simply buy one to replace >it myself, or am I at the mercy of repair service at Mac, their schedule and >their parts prices? If you buy new, you would expect repair or replacement under warranty, no? If the computer is outside warranty period, then yes, plenty of places will sell spares. A lot of the hardware inside a Mac is identical to that inside a PC. Surprised? >On my PC's if I have a hardware problem, normally the >part can be replaced and back up and running the same day.(No, I haven't had >the time to properly research this yet!) If it was justifiable and needed, >I would work towards obtaining a G5 10.3 OS(Panther) system. I could build >more then a couple awesome PC's though for the amount of cash I would need >to outlay to do this. I always run at least 2 physical hard drives (not >just partitions) for backup safety's sake. Since the drives are not named >"C" etc, does Mac support this? Yes. I run multiple drives. > Is it like Linux where different drives or partitions simply have different directory names? I don't know if it is like Linux. Each hard drive can be called anything it likes. I have two hard drives in my Blue and White G3, one with two partitions. The latter is called Minnie and Duki, and the other drive is called PS Scratch. Minnie has 10.3 on, and Duki has 9.1 on. >On PC I can completely >lose my OS and reformat if necessary without losing any data (throw back to >win 98, hasn't been an issue since Win 2K, however a drive can still fail), >can I do this on a Mac per the 2nd hard drive? Yes. HTH Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.macads.co.uk/snaps _________________________________ Free UK Mac Ads http://www.macads.co.uk
