rtamesis opened this issue on Apr 16, 2002 ยท 19 posts
wolf359 posted Fri, 19 April 2002 at 1:10 PM
*my school (on my reccomendation) is going to reformat the new G4s
we are getting this summer and run 9.2,
Why????!!!!!
any new G4 you Buy will have OS 9.22 already installed
OSX we be the Default startup system
but you just set OS 9 as the startup partition or disk
in system preferences
the digital imaging prepress shop that I used to manage
in my former(thankfully!!) printing career,
got a hot new G4 before i left
we ran OS 9.2 %100 of the time no problems
totally ignoring OSX because all our production
software and print drivers were OS 9 Versions.
and to Clarify the OSX version Quark Xpress will NOT be any faster.
BUT when you start to cram a massive 1.2 GIG 4 color process postscript file
across a ten base 100 ethernet network
to an Agfa film image setter
or creocitex front-end server for a digital press,
you workstation will be held hostage by this process nearly an hour
in OS9 no other processes can be done
the post script rip will take just as long in OSX or Windows NT.
BUT you will be able to jump
over to pagemaker or Illustrator and Design those two rush jobs that
came in during that Hour
thats my only point here :-)