Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My "digital darkroom" PC with Win98 was getting to be way more complex than a PC was ever meant to be. So last month, I got a bare-bones AMD 1.8MHz PC with Win XP, and put a 1000 BaseT card in both PC's with a simple crossover Ethernet cable (i.e., no hub). The old PC (667Mhz processor) is now the "server" with its 180GB of disk, and I'm keeping the new one as a dual monitor workstation that is staying really clean and mean. I only run Photoshop and some Internet software on it. With the fast ethernet cards, a 50MB file loads from the old PC into Photoshop on the new PC in 12 seconds (vs about 50 sec over 100 BaseT network cards). Today, while I was scanning 35mm Leica slides on the old PC with a Nikon LS-1000, I was using the new PC to scan Hasselblad medium format with an Epson 1200U Photo. Cool - no wasted time waiting for scans! Over my simple network, all scans were going into the same folder on the old PC. So far XP is behaving very solidly and I like it, especially with the snappy 1.8MHz processor. The two PC network was also a very economical way of adding new equipment and not wasting any of the old gear. PC's should be treated like sports cars, not Mack trucks. Don't load them down too much and they really fly. Pile on the baggage though, and they can't make it up the hills without "overheating" or whatever happens down deep in those poor little over-torqued circuits! Regards, Gary Todoroff Tree LUGger - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html