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shirtz:
After the week from hell with multiple windows systems I'm explorering the possibility of switching over to mac (s).
Has anyone done so recently?
I design in corel x3 , output to film maker 3 and print positves on a epson 1400.
We also have a Brother GT541
and a Roland VP540 with versa works, neither of which support mac drivers.
I know there is no silver bullet, but there has to be a better way to maintain productivity and sanity.

inkbrigade:

--- Quote from: shirtz on August 22, 2011, 06:15:21 AM ---After the week from hell with multiple windows systems I'm explorering the possibility of switching over to mac (s).
Has anyone done so recently?
I design in corel x3 , output to film maker 3 and print positves on a epson 1400.
We also have a Brother GT541
and a Roland VP540 with versa works, neither of which support mac drivers.
I know there is no silver bullet, but there has to be a better way to maintain productivity and sanity.

--- End quote ---
I'm a mac user and although i can't offer much about switching i do have some thoughts for you. I'm not sure about your programs and your rip as we use illustrator and accurip here. As a general rule macs are less troublesome due to drivers, no viruses or spyware.
Also if you have a need for windows you can install virtual box (for free) and use windows as a virtual machine on your mac. I do it with quickbooks and fastmanager.

The nice thing is since your Windows OS is just a disk image you can make a copy of it for a back up. That way when your windows install shits the bed, just launch the backed up clean copy.

Nation03:
I switched to a mac a few years ago and never looked back. I can't imagine using anything else.

tpitman:
Obviously, Corel won't work on the Mac OS unless you install Windoze on it. I've got XP on my MacBook to run Ghostscript and a few things like the Union Ink and Matsui mixing programs and a card reader for my Intuit merchant account, which I'm gonna ditch after getting Square. Contrary to what some suggest, a Mac is not an overpriced Dell. Over the course of 20 years using Macs, the only problems I ever had was freezing up on my G5 due to some crappy "free" RAM that came with it from the vendor, and an OS crash after I installed an out-of-date disk utility while setting up my old G3 when it was new.
JMHO, though. My first Mac (which I still have and was my most expensive) was a step up from a Tandy PC that ran their "Deskmate" interface, with no hard drive and 640kb of RAM. I'm not sure that transition still counts as an answer to your question.

Denis Kolar:
Once you go MAC, you never go back :)

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