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- From: hurley@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Brian Hurley)
- Subject: Re: LOTS OF ADVICE SOUGHT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug23.091745.5468@spdc.ti.com>
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- References: <BtF75p.n15@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 09:17:45 GMT
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- In article <BtF75p.n15@chinet.chi.il.us> prb@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Botts) writes:
- >
- >Inspired in large part by my wife's needs as a free-lance graphic
- >designer, we are about to buy a new home computer (I am slightly stunned
- >to discover that our 386-25 with 80meg hard drive is getting strained,
- >but at least the hardware prices keep dropping, sigh). Anyway, there are
- >a couple of key decision points that I'd like to throw out on the floor
- >for comment and discussion, and maybe get a good flame war or two
- >going...-;)
- >
- >1) Since my wife needs to deal with spot and process color, and start
- >moving into scanned photos, our present 256-color SVGA card and monitor
- >just doesn't cut it. Speed is an issue here, too (the current card drags
- >in the more intensive WIndows apps like Corel Draw). I have researched this
-
- I think that your selection here is just fine. I do remember that the first
- 4FG's did have problems, but I think they have that corrected.
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- >
- >2) Regarding a scanner: what should we look for in a scanner? Say, for
- >black-and-white, as opposed to color? Are these cheap hand-held scanners
- >claiming to do 256 shades of gray worth a damn, perhaps at least for
- >line art and drawings? What kind of dpi rating is considered the minimum
- >to be useful for light professional use?
-
- For REAL good scanning (if you can afford it) get a flatbed scanner.
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- >
- >3) Other than daisy-chaining peripherals, is there a reason to get a
- >SCSI hard drive instead of IDE? I though there was a speed boost, but
- >the salesmen say it ain't so, say a good IDE drive will be just as fast
- >as a SCSI one, and save the $200 cost of the SCSI controller.
-
- IDE is just fine. The Maxor 7213 which is a 213M 15ms HD is selling for the
- 450-500 range (Sept, Computer Shopper). This is one of the first times that
- I'll agree with a salesman, It's not worth the money to goto SCSI. Unless you
- need GIGS of storage. One thing that I most always recommend to people that
- do DTP is get a removeable storage device. Iomega, Syquest, or even
- flopical. That gives you the ability to store 20-90 Megs on one disk and store
- it away.
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- >
- >
- >Okay, that;s a lot of questions, so any feedback about any partcular
- >points would be most welcome. If you don't want to post (though I'm sure
- >others will be interested in a discussion of these points), email would
- >be fine; after a bit I'll summarize the consensus, if any, and report on
- >what we finally decide to buy and wh
- >
- >Thanks in advance!
- >Paul Botts
- >prb@chinet.chi.il.us
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