New Computers

As I have mentioned before I work for a quick printer and we are basically a Mac shop. I do have a couple of lame PCs running XP that I print from M$ but the real work is done on Macs using mostly Adobe programs. I will write more about that later, but the reason for this post is the two new Mac Pros I just installed: 4 gigs of ram and duo 2.66 gig processors both running Leopard. I have been a little hesitant about going to Leopard. I need things to work, customers don't understand why my computers need rebooted, and ppds aren't working, so it needs to be seamless.

First let me say the new Mac Pros are an excitement to behold and have blazing speed, but I seem to think that with every new computer. Leopard does have some great new bells and whistles that make it fun, particularly spaces and stacks. Learning a bit about Quick Look and hope to take advantage of Time Machine ( looking at a Drobo (http://drobo.com/products_demo.aspx) right now. Will let you know if that happens.

The trick this time has been the combination of Intel and Leopard. Several of my printer drivers (especially Xerox production systems) require special drivers. The wide format printers (510 and 721P) don't have a PPD for the Macs (even tho Xerox's newest toy is the Access Printing system for OSX - they can't seem to decide if they are going to support it or not?). But after a couple of days of install and reinstall I think I have all machines talking.

I have been running an Intel laptop for a few months now, using Tiger. As I mentioned I was hesitant to jump to Leopard, but with these new machines and the upgrade to .1 I think it's about time to take advantage of Apple's latest offer.