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digijim - Jul 25, 2005 - 8:34 am
This week, I should receive my new PM G5 2.0GHZ.
I've been using and am very happy with my G4, but my work is more and more photo editing. I do a lot of catalog work and now more and more portraits and wedddings, So I've opted top move up for sake of speed and staying on the leading edge so-to-speak.
The reason I've taken this long is software and display calibration.
I've purchased Colorvision Spyder2pro to calibrate my new 20" monitor as well as my laptop lcd's but am concerned about other software running on the G5. Will Quark and other OS9.2.2 software run in the classic side of OSX.
What about going wireless? Will I need to add a bunch of software? What?
I've been using and am very happy with my G4, but my work is more and more photo editing. I do a lot of catalog work and now more and more portraits and wedddings, So I've opted top move up for sake of speed and staying on the leading edge so-to-speak.
The reason I've taken this long is software and display calibration.
I've purchased Colorvision Spyder2pro to calibrate my new 20" monitor as well as my laptop lcd's but am concerned about other software running on the G5. Will Quark and other OS9.2.2 software run in the classic side of OSX.
What about going wireless? Will I need to add a bunch of software? What?
Fire - Jul 25, 2005 - 6:42 pm
Apple has stopped making computers that will boot into OS 9. Quark has a number of large, unavoidable issues with running in OS X's Classic environment. I imagine you should be able to open it, but certain features in Quark may not work. I have a friend who works at the local newspaper here. They've switched to PC's because Quark had no real working solution to running its software in OS X at the time. However, Quark Xpress 6.0 runs natively in OS X as well as Adobe's version of the page layout software, InDesign. Either of these are available for purchase from Apple.com's store. There are only a handful of programs that just don't like the Classic environment of OS X, but most other OS 9 applications will run perfectly fine.
Apple has the most simple, reliable, no-strings-attached wireless solutions available. All you'll need are Airport cards for each of the computers connecting to the wireless network (most new computer from Apple ship with them included) and a "Base Station" (essentially a wireless router). The software for connecting wirelessly to networks is included in the Mac OS X operating system.
I've had lots of experience with many different wireless routers from many different manufacturers including Asanté, Belkin, and Linksys. None of them have worked as seamlessly as Apple's Airport Basestation. If you're going wireless, I most certainly recommend it over anything else on the market today.
Apple has the most simple, reliable, no-strings-attached wireless solutions available. All you'll need are Airport cards for each of the computers connecting to the wireless network (most new computer from Apple ship with them included) and a "Base Station" (essentially a wireless router). The software for connecting wirelessly to networks is included in the Mac OS X operating system.
I've had lots of experience with many different wireless routers from many different manufacturers including Asanté, Belkin, and Linksys. None of them have worked as seamlessly as Apple's Airport Basestation. If you're going wireless, I most certainly recommend it over anything else on the market today.
Fire - Jul 25, 2005 - 9:59 pm
Jim!
Did this information answer all of your questions? If you have more, feel free to ask! I'd love to offer any help I can. If you're all set, let me know so I can mark this thread as resolved! :-)
Cheers,
Wes
Did this information answer all of your questions? If you have more, feel free to ask! I'd love to offer any help I can. If you're all set, let me know so I can mark this thread as resolved! :-)
Cheers,
Wes
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