>> I agree NIH-Image is great and has a big user base but has anybody who has
>> used both  NIH Image and the Windows 95 based ImageTool feel like comparing
>> the two.  I have learned to appreciate Macs and I think they will be around
>> for a long time but the bottom line is that even with academic pricing, you
>> can get a more powerful PC (RAM/monitor/etc) than Mac for the same bucks.
>
>ImageTool is not yet a serious competitor to NIH Image or any of the
>high-end image analysis progs. for Windows like Image Pro Plus,
>Optimas or Mocha.
>
>I allways recommend that users getting image analysis equipment for
>the first time stick to the platform they are used to. To most users
>image analysis itself is a completely new (difficult) world. A shift
>from Mac to Windows or Windows to Mac will make it even more
>difficult to get into this new world.
>Another reason for not changing platform is that image analysis
>systems often are attached to a LAN. To put a PC on a Mac-net or a
>Mac on a PC-net is next to impossible or at least annoying to the LAN
>manager (and often expensive).
>
>Bo
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Sorry, Bo,
 
I do not agree with the last statement.  Connecting a mac to a PC using
windoze96 is easy if you have a network.  Contact miramar systems.  They've
developped "maclan connect 5.51", which allows PC's to use the appletalk
protocol.  I think its price is about 100 USD and it is very easy to use.
I use it to transfer data from PC's to macs (and nothing else, of course)
and it works just fine.
 
Pieter
 
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