[thelist] Web Design on iMac

Whew,

I think I'm entering into this thread a little late, bit here's my  little
input:

I had the opportunity to get a new 'puter about 3 months ago, so on a whim I
put in my capEx for a PowerBook G3 400, 128 mb ram, 6 gig HD, etc.  Let me
tell you, I'm never looking back.  I've use a PC for over ... 12 years now
(!!), and I still keep one at home for programming (I find the Mac OS to be
too unstructured if I have to think logically, weird, I know) and for
testing Web Sites and other apps on a wintel platform.  I would never
completely ditch a PC.  The PowerBook is roughly similar to an iMac DV in
power and performance, which would be what I would get as a desktop unit.  I
do print work, 3D and Web all off my PowerBook with no hassles at all. The
speed is phenomenal, graphical tasks are done ~40% faster than the P3-550 I
had before this (N.B. though, some tasks seem to take a _tiny_ bit longer).
PC compatibility is nice, I can of course read in all useful graphics files,
plus the print houses like dealing with us now that we're on Macs.  I don't
care what anyone else says, I don't miss the floppy at _all_, good riddance.
An external Zip drive might be useful too for whole sites/media files.

Here's my PowerBook configuration:
Peripherals:
Wacom Graphire
External USB Iomega Zip
19" Samsung monitor

Software:
DAVE (Mac-to-PC networkability)
Freehand 9 (print and Web)
Flash 4 (mainly for canned presentations)
Fireworks 3 (really quick comping)
Photoshop 5 (indispensable)
BBEdit (the Dreamweaver HTML editor blows, this is a necessity)
Dreamweaver 3 (preferred HTML editor, very powerful and a standard among our
suppliers)
Fetch

That's all I can remember now.  On my wish list:
Freehand
InterDev
StarOffice (whenever they come out with a Mac ver)
Quark express

One really bad screw-up IMHO: The iMac currently only supports video
mirroring, not dual monitors (someone _please_ correct me on this, it's
holding me back from getting one).

You also might want to wait for the 17" screen iMacs to come out...

Also, I don't necessarily 'miss' the right-click, but I find myself doing it
out of habit. ;-)  click-and-hold does the same thing, as well as
ctrl-click.

--Chris