Hello all,
Well, my Mac at work finally died. Lasted 10 years.
Got a new Mac Pro 8 core that I'm planning on virtualizing the main prepress system from the old machine or installing Snow Leopard in virtualization (more likely) and installing from scratch Adobe and Quark), and then doing the same for Windows. This way, if my machine fails at any point, dongles can be moved to other backup machine of the same type, one image for each machine can be pulled from backup drive to backup machine, Parallels installed, opened, and all systems launched within an hour of first machine going down.
I created this in my mind years ago, but the Mac just kept going, so my boss never would approve a new one. He got one yesterday.
I was wondering if anyone has done this, if they can give their experience. Also, if he didn't get a 30-inch ACD, and monitor recommendations would be welcome for best soft-proofing to ISO standards (GRACoL 7, ISOuncoated, etc.)
Regards, and thank you,
Don
Well, my Mac at work finally died. Lasted 10 years.
Got a new Mac Pro 8 core that I'm planning on virtualizing the main prepress system from the old machine or installing Snow Leopard in virtualization (more likely) and installing from scratch Adobe and Quark), and then doing the same for Windows. This way, if my machine fails at any point, dongles can be moved to other backup machine of the same type, one image for each machine can be pulled from backup drive to backup machine, Parallels installed, opened, and all systems launched within an hour of first machine going down.
I created this in my mind years ago, but the Mac just kept going, so my boss never would approve a new one. He got one yesterday.
I was wondering if anyone has done this, if they can give their experience. Also, if he didn't get a 30-inch ACD, and monitor recommendations would be welcome for best soft-proofing to ISO standards (GRACoL 7, ISOuncoated, etc.)
Regards, and thank you,
Don