At 3:45 PM -0500 9/24/00, Denys Beauchemin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Alfredo wrote earlier:
>  >  * magazine/ad layout & "power" graphics: macintosh
>
>The list for the Mac is much longer, but I won't get into that topic :-)
><Snip>
>
>Well, I am going to answer this one.
>
>The list for the Mac should include doorstop, rifle bullet catcher, bookends,
>boat anchor and Crackerjack box junk giveaway!

An objective opinion, if I have ever seen one (or an object-oriented
opinion? :-)

<< Snip: A checklist of the wonderful hardware that graces Denys's desk >>


>For the next 15 minutes, I contemplate the human condition and the
>sheer idiocy
>of Macs in general and Adobe in particular.  I guess nowhere on the
>planet does
>there exist a Mac which has access to more than one printer either locally
>attached of through a network at one time.  All in all, I feel sorry for the
>Mac users since they can only have one printer.  This must create difficult
>choices at times.

Switching into Denys-emulation mode: Well, my 500 MHz Mac PowerBook with
512 MB of RAM and 30 GB disk drive running Mac OS 9.0.4 *and* Mac OS X, with
Adobe Photoshop 5.5 (soon to become 6.0) and a zillion other applications
allows me to choose among a plethora of printers via common TCP/IP
protocols.

In fact, I have a bunch of desktop-printer icons and I can print ANY document
from ANY application on ANY printer by simply dragging and dropping the
document onto any printer icon.  This is what I have been doing for years
and I thought it was the standard way of doing things.  I'm sorry to hear
that it is NOT the standard way for most computer-savvy people.  And I have
nothing but the greatest respect for Denys's amazing bag of tricks when it
comes to working around standard computer problems :-)


>And this is just another factual, documented reason

I am glad we didn't get to enjoy the non-factual, non-documented "reasons" :-)


>why I dislike Macs.

I see...

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