open sauce! tales from a tightwad
i bought a shitty windows laptop (i couldn't afford another mac) and i am currentyl stocking it with graphics software

i'm not working in the industry right now, but i like to play and do the odd job. as such, i'm fucked if i'm gonna spend ££££ on loads of adobe software, no matter how muhc i might like it.

the answer?

photoshop? Gimp- £0
illustrator? inkscape- £0
office? openoffice.org - £0
cubase? audacity - £0
total saving?
£1826 accordin to current listings on amazon.

i could buy a macbook pro for that! :D nice.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 12:38, 12 replies)

ARRRRRRR
...or you could just pirate the lot and have superior software.

:)
(Chojin doesn't know what day of the week it is, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 12:48, closed)

But that would be immoral!
*Hides laptop*
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 12:53, closed)

Yes
If you read your contract with your ISP carefully it says that as long as you pay your monthly connection fee everything on the internet is free.

I think...
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 12:55, closed)

*cough*
300 albums @ (wild guess here) £7 an album = £2100.

OR

Torrentz.

Same can be said of pr0n of which I'd imagine the figure would be running into tens of thousands. Ahem.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 13:00, closed)

300? lightweight!
I recently downloaded the top 1000 albums so am on around 1200 now.

Add that to over 500 films and porn too...

I reckon I'm looking at 10 (years)



(Kip, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 15:41, closed)

Dunno about the others...
...but OpenOffice is a steaming pile of pants. Tried to use it for a couple of weeks (PC and Mac versions) and ended up having to go back to the devil...
(stalinism, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 13:09, closed)

see the whole point being, i KNOW i could pirate it.
BUT then i couldn't sell work done in it. the point of the experiment is to have a laptop that can do most of what my mac can, without spending a penny past the actual price of the laptop.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 13:29, closed)

Why couldn't you sell
The work done on software which fell into your computer from teh interwebz?

Your clients won't give a flying fuck, as long as they get the work on time, and at a reasonable rate.
(David CopAFeel Used to be The_Elcat - Spouting crap since 1970., Sat 25 Oct 2008, 12:52, closed)

.
Have you actually used Gimp? Great on paper, but in practice it's the best argument I've *ever* come across for stumping up for Photoshop. The interface is hideous in just about every way it is possible to be hideous.

In start contrast to: Reaper (DAW). Unlimited and unrestricted demo, cheap as nuts when you make it honest, helpful user community behind it and just on merit I'd choose it over Cubase, Cakewalk, Cooledit etc in a heartbeat, regardless of price. Audacity will make you vomit after you've spent 10 minutes using Reaper (no, I don't work for them) :)
(misanthrope is so adjective he's verbing nouns!, Sat 25 Oct 2008, 17:08, closed)

OpenOffice is fine
As long as you don't need to send files to other computers to read them, or read other WP files from other programs. It's great for rough drafts, etc., but if you must send something, it's best to copy/paste into an email window.
Windows laughs and spits at OpenOffice, and vice versa.
(aeon chicken Like the Millenium Falcon, only slower and noisier, Sat 25 Oct 2008, 23:31, closed)

ok my take
scrap the Gimp, it's horrid, use PAINT.net also free and much more user friendly
Openoffice sucks, use Abiword for wp, Gnumeric for spreadsheets and Scribus for dtp.
Just my pennyworth
(godisdove I like cheese, Sun 26 Oct 2008, 1:14, closed)

Or three Windows based PCs with equivalent specs.

(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:56, closed)