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From: chouw@buster.cps.msu.edu (Wen Hwa Chou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Desktop publishing
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Date: 26 Mar 91 01:32:57 GMT
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In article <1991Mar25.024612.1264@mlb.semi.harris.com> jdr@sloth.mlb.semi.harris.com (Jim Ray) writes:
>We have a group that is interrested in upgrading their current
>publishing capabilities ( currently using Mac's ).  They are
>interrested in using frame on a couple of Next's and the existing
>Mac's to put out black and white glossies.
>
>Management has decided ( with their PC wizzard ) that MAC's and Next
>( and for that matter any computer other than a PC ) are not acceptable.
>Instead they have come up with an alternative proposal ( about 200k
>more expensive ) using PC's exclusively.

My first suggestion is that have you boss to change a "consultant."

There are two reasons that I can think of in prefering PC - 
1)  The established LAN in your company are either Token Ring or Arcnet.
    Since you said Mac, so this reason does not fit into your situation.

2)  Your boss tries to save money.  But with 200K more???  For PC???
    Can't imagine what they are proposing to buy.  I have helped someone
    spent 40k in buying 486 with 19" color monitor, 16mb ram, 300mb hard disk,
    plus two erasible optical and a exabyte.  And half of that money is for
    my pay check and my former company's overhead.

For desktop poblishing and staff use, I think NeXT might be the best choice
among the Mac's and PC's.  (Though I don't have the same feeling when they
sit in a Computer Science Department Lab.)  It is a much faster, actually
easier to configure than PC.  Suppose you have an all NeXT environment, there
is almost no Unix/Mach specific knowladge needed to setup a new NeXT.  But
for PC, you will be lucky if you can get all the commercial software work
together without any conflict.

Wen