...If 970s are so much cheaper than the 1.4 gig G4s...this is a killer strategy. You have zillions of pent up Quark 6 and POWERMac demand in print, in server, in games, in consumer, in pro, in audio, in workstation...and you're getting them to buy you're premium machine!...
The larger publishing companies tend to use the lower end computers for Quark production. It will probably take 6-12 months (due to production cycles for books, they wont switch versions mid-production, so will test and wait untill the next production cycle ramps up) for these companies to migrate to either Quark 6 or InDesign. Ther immediate purchases for the G5 will most likely be the high end photoshop/prepress/imaging uses, not production which makes up the largest quantity of computers that they will need to upgrade.
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Originally posted by Lemon Bon Bon
...If 970s are so much cheaper than the 1.4 gig G4s...this is a killer strategy. You have zillions of pent up Quark 6 and POWERMac demand in print, in server, in games, in consumer, in pro, in audio, in workstation...and you're getting them to buy you're premium machine!...
The larger publishing companies tend to use the lower end computers for Quark production. It will probably take 6-12 months (due to production cycles for books, they wont switch versions mid-production, so will test and wait untill the next production cycle ramps up) for these companies to migrate to either Quark 6 or InDesign. Ther immediate purchases for the G5 will most likely be the high end photoshop/prepress/imaging uses, not production which makes up the largest quantity of computers that they will need to upgrade.