Thx for nothing....
Yeah, sure... Of course I don't! In case you haven't noticed, I'm NOT the IT manager! I don't even work on the darned things... As to generic drivers and doing your own... He's tried that too! Try doing it with colour calibration on monitor, printer and scanner. And the scanners and printers plus software I'm talking about are worth several tens of thousand dollars. How's that?
Besides, as to PC compatibility suffise to tell that I am using Photoshop 5 on a Pentium 4/ 3500 machine running Windows XP. That's a software made for Win98 still running perfectly on WINXP. Try running Illustrator for OS9 on OSX regardless of flavor... Huh!
Upgrading all software and INCOMPATIBLE hardware has a proforma invoice of around 16000 USD.
We've had no problem with switching our PC hardware from WIN2000 to XP 2 years ago... Still running smoothly. And some of the scanners are more than 5 years old (on the PC's! The oldest MAC scanner is 2 years old!)
The IT guy has also been working in Macs for more than 10 years and has some kind of diploma in computer engineering so I take it he knows his business. Macs are not in my department though so I don't exactly care about it... I'm in an "all PC" zone thanks goodness!
The guys at DTP (MAC users) however are sick and tired of them and would gladly switch to PC's if only the management would give them the stack of cash they need to do it!
Which they don't ...
