Software Review:
Equilibrium DeBabelizer Pro 4.5
By David Fiedler
Deja vu all over again?
This product review may well remind you of our review of
Adobe Photoshop.
But if you're a real graphics guru, that shouldn't surprise you.
Both products, of course, got their fame running on the Macs of uncounted graphics designers, and have now been ported to the Windows platform.
While Photoshop is the high-end leader for image creation programs, DeBabelizer is the de facto standard program for file conversion and manipulation.
So they don't exactly compete; in fact, DeBabelizer has been cleverly designed to use Photoshop filters and even their third-party plugins.
Equilibrium DeBabelizer Pro 4.5
www.equilibrium.com
System Requirements
486 or faster processor running Windows 95 or NT 4.0 (Pentium recommended)
16 MB of RAM (32 MB recommended)
20 MB available hard-disk space for installation
20 MB available hard-disk space for operation
256-color or greater display adapter
CD-ROM drive
Price
For either DeBabelizer Pro 4.5 for Windows or DeBabelizer 3.0 for Mac, suggested retail price is $599.95 (but even Equilibrium sells it online for $399.95)
Free Windows Trial Version, Free Mac Trial Version
OK, those are the published minimums, but let's get real for a minute. You're not going to get very far trying to run a program like this on a 486 under NT 4.0 in 16 MB of RAM (for that matter, just running NT with no applications whatsoever on a 486 in 16 MB isn't going to work real well either). Forget the disk specs too; DeBabelizer installed to just about 65 MB on my system (although it would run in 20 MB like it says...you just wouldn't be able to do much).
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