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- From: macole@wam.umd.edu (Mario A. Cole)
- Subject: Re: LOTS OF ADVICE SOUGHT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug24.044702.8390@wam.umd.edu>
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- References: <BtF75p.n15@chinet.chi.il.us> <1992Aug23.091745.5468@spdc.ti.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 04:47:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug23.091745.5468@spdc.ti.com> hurley@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Brian Hurley) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >
- >
- >>
- >>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.
- >
- HP ScanJet IIc --- excellent if you want 24-bit color. The one on my desk at
- work is truly awesome...it tends to be a bit too sensitive to detail, though.
- Other than that...I highly recommend it..
- >
- >>
- >>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.
- >
- I love IDE because of it's plug-n-play. But if you want removeable storage,
- most of these types are SCSI...I know that Syquest is releasing its new 105MB
- revomable HD (14 ms) with an IDE interface next month. It'll run about $400
- and about $100 per cartridge. I think that IDE is the best way to go. >
- >
- Mario
-
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