levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) (02/28/91)
A friend is planning to buy a Mac system to help with her graphic arts
work (she freelances for publishers who are increasingly using Macs in
their offices). Applications are likely to be the Freehand or
Illustrator type.
Her requirements are a full page gray scale display (color not
required, nor two-page) and reasonable cost. I wish to make sure she
also gets enough computing power to handle a large graphics
application and a large 8-bit screen.
I know enough about Macs to configure them for the kind of
applications I use at work, but I'm not familiar with how graphics
applications work. I'm also not to current on the specs of the newest
machines. I can figure out what kind of disk and how much memory.
The questions I have are things like
Is a 68020 system powerful enough, or should we go for a 68030? Which
is the minimum system that will provide reasonable performance?
What would be the best monitor to get?
Thanks for any recommendations.
/JBL
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