A long one...
The coloring folder ability is really good, Erik!
The printing industry is still using Macs for numerous reasons:
In fact Printing houses had MACs because Quark Xpress , and Photoshop didn't exist at all on PC!!!!... (it was the time of Win 3.1, and MACs had a real operating system with Color Management, Font support was superior ...)
Then the PC versions came... but it was cheaper for them to buy an upgrade on mac instead of a new license for PC (along with a new system, and peripherics compatible with it!!!) It was the era of Win 95, and his numerous bugs, compared to NT... hopefully there is Win2K and XP, more solid (and with Type one fonts support)
The print industry is also really slow to upgrade, some still use quark 3.31! they didn't upgrade their machines (the size of the docs didn't change, that much) so fast as photographers, for instance, who have bigger and bigger files, because they scan pictures at higher DPI or have a new multi million pixels cameras.
Look at the introduction of In- design , that seems more powerful than Quark! Also, I 'm wondering, when Quark will be finally ported to X when the print industry will switch to MAC os X
They would need to wait for drivers for their scanners, printers and other devices... I believe that they are always suspicious of most new technologies.On Print houses time is ALWAYS too short, they can't afford learning very different programs, operating systems...
The PC crowd was also providing them documents coming from Micro$oft office, without the fonts, or sometimes they used Freeware/pirated TTf fonts that caused peroblems at ripping/flashing, or Corel Documents that were not exactly Poscript compliant. So the Print industry was praising Type 1 fonts, that were at the beginning MAC specific... (the funniest is that the new Opentype standard is more based on truetype thean T1, but that's another story) along with the then Mac only programs.
Also, switching to PC is not easy, there are differences (the left mouse button, the crashs... crashs exists on both platforms, but the PC ones are different, due to the numerous hardware available for PC) so they don't want to switch to PC, and will say that PC = bad.
They knew mac problems, and where reluctant to learn the PC ones... thus they encourage the use of macs...
So the Truth that MAC are way better than pc is dead*... but it remains as a urban legend...
*the hardware was superior (SCSI drives, RISC processor...)now they use IDE, the PC processors are very powerful too, but the Apples still costs more...
The printing house in which I was learning (during school, as a trainee) was using PC... but the photocomposition /flashing house they are using is mixed... so the situation is changing, but slowly... slooooowwwwllllllyyyyy...