Planning a Computer Purchase Making an Inventory of Uses What Hardware Requirements are Needed for Your Software What Platform: Choosing an Operating System Which Models? Understanding Hardware Specs Selected Software Vendors Operating System Vendors Selected Hardware Vendors References Scenarios Back to the Chapter...

Buying Computer Systems, continued Selected Software Vendors The following are links to software vendors that feature versions of applications listed previously. Adobe (makers of Photoshop, Illustrator, PageMaker, InDesign, Premiere, and other documents, graphics, and Web products) Autodesk (makers of AutoCad, and other graphics programs) Corel (makers of WordPerfect, Corel Draw, Paradox, WordPerfect Office, Painter, and others) Linux Public Domain Software Macromedia (makers of DreamWeaver, Flash, Fireworks, Freehand, Director and Authorware) Microsoft (makers of Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, FrontPage, Money, Outlook, and others) Newtek (makers of LightWave 3D graphics and rendering program) Quark (makers of the DTP program Xpress) Operating System Vendors Consult these links for more infomation about popular desktop computer system operating systems.  LINUX (a public domain operating systems available for Intel platforms and others MAC OS (Apple Macintosh) Windows (Microsoft) Selected Hardware Vendors Here are a several hardware vendors that specialize in consumer desktop computers, laptops and notebook computers, and servers. Apple Computer Compaq Dell Computer Gateway Hewlett Packard IBM PalmPilot References  The High-Tech Dictionary of Computer Terms (maintained by ComputerUser.com)   This page last updated 5/04 Maintained by Tom Allen. Furman University © 2001