[John D Harris]

Originally posted by Dundee Slaytern: quote: Originally posted by John D Harris: Mac's can multitask on paper but they are RAM hogs so unless you have lots of RAM it's not that effective in real life. I've run into some problems with multitasking if I open Photoshop then Illustrator, Illu for some reason shuts down my virex control panel, photoshop doesn't need it to run. But if photo is opened with virex control panel on then it gets shut down while Photo is open it causes problems, crashes, not being able to print (can't find print driver) and other silly crap. If I close Illu then open Photo everything runs fine. The biggest problem I found with running MAC is some times the programs cause conflicts with other programs. ie: Nortron's utilies 4.0(maybe 5.0 can't remember off the top of my pointed head) wouldn't run if Norton's anti-Virus 4.5 was installed. go figure both made by the same company but they would work together. I fought for 3 days trying to figure out what the problem was, I finaly called Symatic they said oh they won't run if they are both on the same machine.

Er... I was considering getting a Mac this December, but I multitask all the time and I will go absolutely batty if I have to open, close and reopen programs. I guess I will wait until they settle the RAM issue before considering them again.[/QUOTE]You can add lots of RAM it's cheap now, Hale I remember them it was $200 for 8 megs.