Current software on your work station?

Here, at my CNHI shop:

A G3 MAC (yup, the one with the 6-gig hard drive)

MAC OS 8.6 (pathetic, I know)

Quark 4.0

NewsEditPro

Photoshop 6.0

 

We're in transition now. My layout computer has most of what you have (G3, OS 8.6, Photoshop 5, Quark 4.1), but soon we'll be doing InDesign on PCs and that's a much more modern setup (Pentium M 1.73 ghz w/docking system so we can work here with the bigger monitor and keyboard or home/Panera with the laptop, XP Pro, Adobe Creative Suite 2) Hooray beer progress

 

I am running a G4 with OS 9.2, which means I don't have the capacity to view several porn Web sites that I need to my job effictively. So I have to go next door to the photo department to use her G4 with OS X on it to do some of my work.

I have Quark 4.1, Photoshop 5.5 and Microsoft Office for Mac 2001 to do the rest of my stuff.

One of our reporters has OS X on her computer, for whatever reason I don't understand.

Our publisher informed me a couple of weeks ago we're going to move to InDesign on PCs soon. He's got several computers ordered for production and the newsroom will soon follow.

 

I have an iMac, as does the rest of the reporting staff. Deskers have I believe a G4.
We're all running OS X Tiger.
We're at some point moving to InDesign, so all the adobe products are on our hard drives. But for now we still use DTI Page Speed and Speedwriter.

 

I just got a new (to me) G4 E-Mac, which has OS 10.4 on it, and I have the whole Adobe Creative Suite as well, but the majority of our newsroom is on G3/G4s with OS 9.22 and Quark 4.1.

 

PC!!!!
Windows 2000 pro.
Quark 4.1
Photoshop light (not sure what exactly, but it's not full photoshop version...allows basic cropping/cutting/etc..stuff, with abiltiy to sharpen andadjust colors. Doesn't allow captioning or indepth layering, etc...), and some lame News/editing software

Google Earth
QuickTime
Real Payer's latest free
Win Amp
Adobe Acrobat 7

Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox
Opera
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Netscape 7.0

 

PC (High-end Pentium 4 with Windows XP)

InDesign 2.0.2
InCopy 2.0.1
PhotoShop 6.0

 

The PC is in front of me with Word, Harris NewsMaker Editoral and NewsMaker Pagination, IE, WinZip and Google Earth.

The Mac behind me has Photoshop CS2, Quark 6.5, Illustrator and the Harris browser to move things back and forth between the two.

 

Harris makes me want to find a puke smiley and post it here. As such, I don't want to waste any more time than I have to discussing that "system."

Kill it. Kill it dead. :-\

 

G4 running OS-X with NewsEditPro, Photoshop CS2 and Quark 6

 

We must have it set up pretty good, or good techies, or something. Because it's pretty good for us.

 

Question: We use, cough cough, PhotoShop 5.5, which is pretty old. It seems to me that older versions of PS aren't as compatible to digital photography as newer versions. When I download photos and then open them up, the raw versions are always really good. But then I open them in PS 5.5 to do toning and sizing, etc, and it's just not as crisp.

Any thoughts about this?