( as a graphic designer that only worked with Mac’s) , until this day I regret the fact that I sold my Macintosh Quadra 950.
I wish I’d never sold my first Mac – an LCii I acquired in 1992…
That Classic of mine still has Quark Xpress on it.
Then came Adobe and wiped out the market
The ones I wish I’d kept are a clamshell blue iBook and a Powerbook Duo, which I had the dock for.
I had a Newton MessagePad which I sold for next to nothing many years ago and which is probably worth a small fortune now!
I got the chance to by one , back in the day, and opted for a Sega Gamegear
As much as I like my Macs… My NDX2 is sounding rather fine on this pleasantly warm (at last) evening
Really jealous of your iMac. Nice.
Back in 2003, I was working for H Bauer, then (and still) one of the UK’s biggest mag publishers. Like everyone else, they used Quark XPress.
Then Adobe went to Mr Bauer in Germany with an offer. Would Bauer (along with what was then called NatMags, the publisher of Cosmo, Good Housekeeping etc) like to be the first company to take on their new Quark killer, InDesign? Essentially they came in and installed the software on on all the production Macs, and a team of 12 people from Adobe were embedded with the company for three months to help bed in and iron out bugs. The transition was faultless. With two of the big boys on board, IPC, BBC Magazines, Emap, Condé Nast and the rest followed and within a year InDesign was he dominant DTP software in magazines.
Quark was always infamous for selling you some discs in a box for £800 and then buggering off. The support and after sales service was lousy.
I adopted Indd in 2008.
Quark always add the advantage over pagemaker and company, because of the “work with preview” , and consequently quicker
To be honest I preferred Quark back in the noughties too, but nowadays nobody seems to use it. Never liked Aldus PageMaker much either, but the worst thing I ever used was a late 80s/early 90s DTP programme called PageWright, which a lot of newspapers used to use. You had to type out lines of code to get, say, italics or a drop cap. No wonder everyone loved Quark when it first came out!
The first Adobe program I loved, beside Photoshop, was Streamline.
I wouldn’t trade the ndx2 for any mac.
It’s beautiful.
I wouldn’t trade the ndx2 for (two) mac,s
It’s funny. We decided we needed a new computer so ordered it from John Lewis last Friday. I had no idea that it had only been released that very day and that they were in short supply. By the next morning the whole stock had gone. I’ve managed to download from Qobuz and move the music to the Qnap so they the NDX and Qbs can play it. Navigating back to topic, albeit sans pictures.
Had the 252/NDX2 combo for almost 2 weeks, totally in love with sound especially the way it controls bass. Drums on just about everything sounds more convincing. The thing just sounds wonderful love the detail. Due to family and work stuff haven’t really listened that much this week but will make up for that this weekend.
The LCII was my first Mac too. The pizza box running Photoshop 2.5 on a 14" monitor in colour on System 7 OS.
@TheKevster All of my naim designs were created in Quark Xpress, with the logo in CorelDraw. I can still run both of these excellent programs on my desktop with no issues. Corel is great for accurate ‘technical’ drawing of logo’s / fonts etc, and you can save / export into multiple (Adobe) formats.
To keep on topic, repost of my SN2 / CDX2.2 / 250DR / HiCapDR / XPSDR