Next message: Dan Schwartz: "RE: [WinMac] To convert Mac->Windows, should I bother?"
>I am in charge of my high school's newspaper computer systems. We are
>currently are running 6 imacs and 2 other older computers that we are
>planning on replacing. These are linked to a G4 Server through a
>AppleTalk ethernet connection.
>
>I'd like to eventually switch our systems over to Windows--am I crazy
>for wanting to try this? In order to do this, I'd have to replace the
>two older computers with PCs and the other Macs will be replaced later
>on. I've heard that Mac/Windows networking is most unstable...is it
>really, or is there a "good" way to do it?
>
>We mostly use Adobe Pagemaker and Photoshop. Would there be any problems
>switching between Mac and PC Pagemaker files?
>
>Please let me know problems I'd be looking at if I add 2 PCs to the
>network.
>
>Thanks!
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The daily newspaper in Chattanooga, The Chattanooga
Times-Chattanooga Free Press, just went the other way, tossing all of
its windows computers for a total Mac based system.
Here at the nearby university, The University of Tennessee at
Chattanooga, the graphic design program and the journalism-mass
communication program are upgrading and expanding our Mac
environments. We (like many other art and journalism programs)
believe the Mac platform (primarily because of its native graphical
user interface and its relative speed) is the better platform for our
needs.
In a way, your high school students are better served by the dual
platform environment you're now supporting. Students receive
training on both platforms. My problem here at UTC nowadays is
dealing with freshman who come from high schools who've done what
you're contemplating--going to a mac-exclusion, windows-only
environment. From my point of view, it does not well serve the
students who contemplate a college major in either graphic design or
journalism-mass communication.
We have absolutely no problem interfacing our Mac environment with
windows networks and computers.
--k
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