Re: What has changed in the Apple world last 6 months?

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <3a322a28_2@news3.prserv.net>,
Tom Zuchowski <tzuchow@attglobal.net> wrote:
 
> "Paul Schlyter" <pausch@saaf.se> wrote in message
> news:90mfhb$qm7$1@merope.saaf.se...
>> In article <3a2e9a31@news.svn.net>, Paul Grammens <grammens@svn.net>
>> wrote:
>> Why?  These old Apple's had enough CPU power needed by many
>> businesses.  The extra CPU power in modern computers is mostly used
>> for "visual sugar" (pretty-looking GUI's etc), without adding any
>> real content.  Or for idle cycles....
> 
> Idle cycles? Try resizing a 24-bit, 300-DPI, 8.5x11 image
 
That's a 24 MByte image.... how were you going to resize it?  By
making it larger?  :-))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
 
> on a Pentium 166
> (or Mac equivalent) with 64MB of RAM. It takes about 10 minutes on mine. It
> would probably be an overnight job on a IIgs.
> 
> Eye candy? Numerous studies have shown that larger screens greatly enhance
> productivity (my own experience fully supports this view.) How well do you
> think an old CPU would do running a 1024x768 screen? How about 1600x1280?
> 
> Tom Zuchowski
 
But yes, OF COURSE there are applications which really do require a
lot of CPU power, e.g. image processing.  However, most users aren't
processing big images or other CPU intensive tasks all the time --
instead they're doing things like word processing, send/receive
email, etc, which can be done on an Apple II.  Yes, even for such
simple tasks, eye candy is nowadays often taken for granted.
 
Many of today's people would probably think it would be impossible
to write a short document in, say, 32K of RAM.
 
Finally: even image processing can be done without a powerful CPU and
many MBytes of RAM -- yes, even completely without a computer.
Image processing is many decades old, perhaps a century old, and was
and can still be done in photo labs.  The terminology was different
though; "resizing" was referred to as "enlarging", negatives and
slides had resolutions of up to 3000 DPI, and image contents was
more than a mere 24-bit image....
 
BTW, when we're talking about image processing, it's a quite
interesting phenomenon that people are prepared to pay MORE for a
camera which gives pictures of LOWER quality -- yes, I'm of course
referring to electronic vs traditonal cameras.
 
 
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