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Re: CMYK or RGB? Macintosh or Windows? How's a poor guy to upgrade?
Subject:Re: CMYK or RGB? Macintosh or Windows? How's a poor guy to upgrade? From:"Gregory Sweet" <Gsweet -at- cdphp -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 18 Oct 2002 08:24:51 -0400
IME, you'll want a Mac for the DTP and a windows machine for the multimedia. Mac is certainly the standard for the DTP set, while most of the multimedia developers I know are working in Windows.
I suggest digging around the Internet for a bargain computer dealer like http://www.cyberpowerpc.com for your IBM and then taking full advantage of his new student status to obtain academic pricing for software/ Mac hardware. I never needed to purchase a mac so I'm not sure if discount resllers exists for them as well, I've never looked into it.
-Greg
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