(oh no, not ) Another Desktop thread!

[fatbusinessman]

Mainly due to the fact that they seem to be the most overpriced... yes, Photoshop is a very good program, but I wouldn't say it's worth 10 times the price of Paint Shop Pro.

 

[Scooba da Bass]

I think OSX runs on a version of BSD, but I don't trust Apple not to somehow destabilise Unix by shoving all their applications on top of it.

Wow...just wow.

So despite having no experience of the OS you're saying it's not stable due to Apple's incompetence. I see a fine future for you in PC World.

 

[Embattle]

Down boy down

 

[Sar]

Mainly due to the fact that they seem to be the most overpriced... yes, Photoshop is a very good program, but I wouldn't say it's worth 10 times the price of Paint Shop Pro.

It isn't.

The full version of PSP now costs just over £80.

Buying PS outright from scratch costs £366 direct from Adobe at current exchange rates.

Is it 4½ times better?

I'd say so.

Better interface
Better tools
More tools
Better workflow
Better features
etc

 

[Xavier]

Wow...just wow.

So despite having no experience of the OS you're saying it's not stable due to Apple's incompetence. I see a fine future for you in PC World.

I think fbm is referring to apples poor track record developing for platforms outside of graphite (up to OS9)... Apps such as Quicktime for Windows have always been hideously bloated and never handled GDI properly, and considering the huge customisation made to BSD to get it running on IBMs Power chips, even before OSX was even coded over the top it's made for pretty shaky ground.

OSX can crash in some pretty spectacular ways (Kernel Panics, corrupted Parameter RAM for example) and some of the recovery methods are pretty arcane to say the least...

 

[Embattle]

I'm fairly sure PSP 8 has been as low as £50 recently and while PS is better it isn't worth the extra money...for the majority of people.

 

[Sar]

Maybe, but to get it even shipped from Jasc.com costs a grand total of $180, or £101.

That include $60 for shipping alone.

Ouchie.

 

[Xavier]

It isn't.

The full version of PSP now costs just over £80.

Buying PS outright from scratch costs £366 direct from Adobe at current exchange rates.

Is it 4½ times better?

I'd say so.

Better interface
Better tools
More tools
Better workflow
Better features
etc

PSP8 standalone is about £56 from dabs, you can get the power suite for £76, but that's a total of 5 applications: PSP8, Photo Album, PSP Xtras Ed 2, PSP Xtras Ed 2 and Animation Shop.

 

[Salteh]

I think this works... Click the image for the big version.. 2300-something * something.

 

[Sar]

Ya, it's the fuller versions I'm talking about that's about £80, because there is only one version of PShop.

 

[Scooba da Bass]

I think fbm is referring to apples poor track record developing for platforms outside of graphite (up to OS9)... Apps such as Quicktime for Windows have always been hideously bloated and never handled GDI properly, and considering the huge customisation made to BSD to get it running on IBMs Power chips, even before OSX was even coded over the top it's made for pretty shaky ground.

OSX can crash in some pretty spectacular ways (Kernel Panics, corrupted Parameter RAM for example) and some of the recovery methods are pretty arcane to say the least...

I'll wait till FBM replies but you've comitted a couple of pretty obvious fallacies.

 

[Xavier]

Ya, it's the fuller versions I'm talking about that's about £80, because there is only one version of PShop.

Not forgetting photoshop elements

 

[Sar]

Yer, but it's a seperately sold App though, sold to compete at the "Family User" level.

IE: My Dad.

 

[Brynn]

pretty obvious fallacies.

Fellatios? Wij?

 

[Hashmonster]

huzzah a desktop thread too - here goes...

sad i know but me loves me car

 

[Lemming]

aint particularly good, but as we've had Windows and Mac desktops....

 

[Xavier]

Is anyone using Samurize these days? I'm messing with a config at the moment but looking for more ideas.


Xav

 

[caLLous]

That's the last Samurize config I did.

 

[Furr]

 

[Embattle]

No real windows to look out of then?

 

[kippa]

some pictures are from the newest windows version, not xp pro

I think you'll find most people are using XP with a skin

 

[Sharma]

Kippa!!

 

[Pakman]

Had to post due to severe lack of wimmin.

 

[kippa]

I'd like that fairy ontop of my tree tbh

*waves at sharma*

 

[Xavier]

just starting to reskin mine again, will hopefully find some spinky stone slab pngs to replace the alpha rectangles, didn't realise Samurize was so flexible now though, tons more WMI info available since I last tinkered which was <V0.6

 

[Sar]

My current DT.

 

[Xavier]

Went out with my camera this morning and happened to get a couple of cool shots, so the deskie has already changed, now I need to reskin everything to match, argh.

 

[Miles_Binck]

click for full-size (1600x1200 560KB PNG)

 

[Clown]

Heeeyyy!! Miles came back!!

 

[Miles_Binck]

Heeeyyy!! Miles came back!!

jebus, someone who actually remembers me

for you sir

I like many was disolutioned by the corporate odours that emenated from the now fallen Barrysworld.com. Once I heard it was reborn/regressing back to FreddysHouse returning to the 'fold' felt like slipping into a warm bed with a nice hot water bottle to hold and a beautiful woman to warm your feet