Re: gEDA suite vs my creaky old Protel Client 3.5?

On 5/2/2005 11:30 AM Tom Loredo wrote:


 > Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, UPS Worldship, Quickbooks,
 > Quicken . . . those are my major reasons to stick with WinXP. I'm a >
 > one-man show, not just an engineer.

Well, you can use all those under Mac OS X, *and* gEDA 

<snip>

Well, I don't know if buying a Mac and re-buying all the apps I listed just to run gEDA is going to be much of a cost savings over updating my Protel 3.5 Client to the Latest. It is certainly a lot more expensive than just staying as-is.


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