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- Frank Salvatini (My what a crock of bull!) wrote:
-
- : Peter, you are living proof that if you stare at the hardware too long
- : you will go blind. The Mac 7200/75 with 8megs of ram will do nothing.
- : Photoshop is so slow on that config, that you can brew coffee between
- : screen refreshes.
-
- Try getting more RAM. (And don't you dare scream bloat--tossing
- around graphics files like PhotoShop does takes a lot of RAM, and if you
- don't have it it hits the hard disk almost continuously.)
-
- : Speaking of which, you get no 24-bit screens from
- : that config with out adding more stuff (DiaMOND STEALTH = $1000 or
- : $800 depending on ram config,).
-
- Why the hell would you spend a thousand bucks for a card? You *did*
- know that more VRAM can be easily and cheaply added to the 7200, yes?
- Apparently not. Boy, I'm glad you don't manage our local machines! We'd
- be broke within the week. :-)
-
- : Mac software is so fat that without 32
- : megs of ram at least, you'll be playing a few games and typing letters
- : at most.
-
- Congratulations! In the absence of "tempest", you win the "biggest
- crock of BS" award! Sheesh. I've got 16 Meg and have NO trouble with
- running out of RAM. Matter of fact, I turned off VM and tossed
- RamDoubler. Of course, I can only run a couple development environments,
- a resource fork editor, 'works' package, telecom programs, and a half
- dozen little odds and ends at once. I feel TERRIBLY stifled. :-)
-
- : So climb down of that high horse before you hurt yourself.
-
- Better yet, how 'bout you yank yer head outa yer arse before you fart
- and get a terminal case of halitosis? (Psychiatrist: "Oh dear--this
- isn't good. He seems to be regressing to his primal behavioral patterns...")
-
- ----
- "I was practically naked, dressed as a dominatrix and was slapping the
- audience with this huge rubber dick I was carrying. (Bill Gates)
- wandered by, so I started screaming 'Serve Me! Serve Me!' and put the
- dick on his shoulder--at which point, he emitted a mouse-like squeal and
- ran away. It was quite a scene." Slymenstra (GWAR)
-