>MicrosoftR WindowsR XP Professional or Home Edition with >Service Pack 1 > > Not up on XP but it sounds like the Home Edition is cheaper.
I would recommend not touching XP Home with a barge pole, a long barge pole at that. Its like XP on stabilisers and not really suitable for anyone who seeks to get the most out of their system. > I think Photoshop 8 won't run on OS 9 on the Mac side. It's > stable and if it supports drivers for the latest video cards, > I wonder why they didn't support it. I should care... You're on the money in one regard but software manufacturers budget the amount of support required for a release of a product and then scale that to the next release. After a while, it becomes uneconomic to continue offering support to legacy versions so the potential loss of custom versus the cost of servicing a diminishing pool of users is negated. There are also hardware and software issues which will ultimately affect the performance of the application if they seek to make it backwards compatible. Does anyone remember the days of Windows 3.11 for Workgroups? Aaah, those were the glory days! :-) Alex =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
