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We actually have a mixture of both for our shop. All our data is saved onto a central file server for our shops, so once a week we can have an automatic backup of all the data from the server to an external hard drive that is then rotated with another, and that most recently backed up drive is...

yes, I sent both with the same email, same subject, same text. I was kind of worrying my email service was down!

I emailed twice to the General Info@SAintl.biz email address with the same sender address and questions but did not hear back from anyone. This really helps me sorting out some planning for the computer system. This system wouldn't really be used for designing while it is also printing, but...

I know JUST what you mean. The sad thing is this time I didn't even have a problem I was trying to get solved. I just had a question about the software we've already purchased (on several machines even) that wouldn't take that much research to find the answer for. I didn't even go in to...

Thanks for your quick input! I was actually researching this for purposes of a digital printer as well, so that is helpful to hear. Our big debate is using a single quad-core with higher clock speed or two quad-core processors with lower clock speeds to see which would have better performance...

I've been wondering what exactly Flexi 8.1 supports in the way of multi-threading. Is it optimized for dual-core processors, a noticeable increase in performance? How about more than just dual-threading like in a dual-core processor, like is it capable of really utilizing a quad-core...

Explain which is better at performing the given tasks along with your reasons, experience or opinion. Granted, not all possible uses and comparisons are listed here, but a general list. There's a lot of discussion that Vista may be better than XP at some things, and XP better than Vista at...

I've been discussing with my supervisors at the University of Kansas School of Engineering about the future of their Windows computers in the labs. Currently about half are installed with Windows XP Professional while the other half run Fedora 7. There's a lot of people in the IT department...

These were actually the main drivers I have been having difficulties finding, as none of the actual chipset driver pack is available through HP Support for XP on my notebook. The other big driver that I was missing was for the nVidia VGA drivers, but that shouldn't be too big of a deal really...

I purchased an HP notebook ($1,000) back in November with a dual-core AMD Turion X2 and upgraded it to 2 GB of memory and a 7,200 rpm hard drive. I did this because I noticed at first just how slow Vista was. Now, this was my first computer with Vista, and it came preloaded with Vista Home...

Generally our shop uses Quickbooks for this task. It's really easy to search for the customer, look up past invoices and even specific down to a certain sign unit. In the invoices it is listed out what tasks were done, as well as quantities of materials, so it's easy to track the last time...

I actually came across this at tomshardware a couple days ago and found it kind of interesting. I just wasn't too sure if this would also be the case since the DDR2 667 memory that would be used on the AMD platform would be ECC registered memory. It doesn't appear the memory speed really makes...

Thank you all for your input and help! I will be letting the guys at the shop know about Onyx as a possible option in the future when we expand. One thing I am worried about with running the Intel based system is maximum RAM in the future. For now, as we will be running only one digital...

A mac in this situation would be way out of the question for two reasons. 1) Everything we've done is on PC and everyone prefers that (and since I'm the builder and I prefer it as well, it's all worked out fine that way.) and 2) Cost. One of the designers at the office has a Mac at home that...

I'm actually not 100% positive which software they use for printing, but I know it would have to either be FLEXI Expert, Adobe Photoshop CS3, or if they received it, there is also some printing software that comes with the printer when you purchase a JV5 series printer (usually.) One of the big...

I have currently been working on research for a high-powered workstation to be used as a RIP center to run a digital printer in our office. We currently have a Mimaki JV5 digital printer, and this computer will be designed to run this printer. However, there has been talk of adding a new...

Same here, I have ever only heard of one virus that's capable of truly affecting and destroying hardware on a level of having to have the computer replaced. It was an old BIOS bug that tampered with the CPU timing, effectively overclocking it until it burned out. Rick, did you ever find out...

We've had a lot of problems with Flexi, especially in the latest versions. With all these troubles, it's obvious we need to think of another alternative. However, some of the guys at our shop were really worried as they thought we were planning to just instantly stop using Flexi right away and...

Solid State Disks sound like wonderful speed deamons to me, but everyone keeps saying one bad thing about them. While they are unbeatable at accessing and reading data speeds (sustained speeds equivalent to or better than SAS drives) their write speed is worse than your standard 7,200 rpm hard...

I spent a little time today looking up some scores and test results of SAS vs. other hard drive options. In most cases I saw the consensus that, while SAS are faster, the overall performance for non-server type transfers and activities are not much greater than a good set of SATA drives. The...