Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have an iMac dedicated to being a music server. Its 27" screen is visible anywhere in the room, and compared to high end hifi it is not expensive. I do display some of my pictures on it for family and friends but haven't used it for my normal photo stuff. I would imagine it would be pretty good. FD >________________________________ > From: Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> >To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >Sent: Sunday, 9 June 2013, 7:04 >Subject: Re: [Leica] Image Editing System > > >I'm just fresh from seeing an excellent documentary about Julian Assange at >Lincoln Center and the Wikileaks thing. >We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks - In theaters now >A visually stunning film and I was at the edge of my seat for two hours and >I'd not slept in 48 so that's saying something. > >I was entranced by the footage of Julian Assange going from place to place >with as much luggage as he seemed to be able to carry on trains? and there >was always a fresh supply of very cool new luggage for every trip and lots >of it. More than most guys carry. >Later in the flick I figured out why so much luggage. >He did not use a MacBook Pro (no air then). He used an Apple - iMac. > >Turns out in our contract with being a human on planet earth circa early >second millennium we're allowed to use one. >Its a? move I almost made but didn't.? I was told to do that. And it turned >out ive spent less time in motels or hotels in the past years than I thought >I would. Making the laptop lifestyle the obvious choice. Other than using a >laptop is a kind of expected default. > >Yet the Imax lets you pack a real computer with you and is still portable. >Maybe its the way to go. The entire computer is packed into the rather large >monitor. And you have a separate keyboard. And mouse.. >I may have been far far better of doing that. I'd be a frigging millionaire >by now. But I consider myself to have done that in an alternate universe. > >http://www.apple.com/imac/ > >A laptop you can do stuff in a Starbucks or a staricase but an iMac you seem >to need a motel room to set up in.? or at home. which is kind of ok with me. > > >On 6/9/13 1:33 AM, "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote: > >> So is mine! I understand a new Mac Pro is due this summer, which I may >> buy if >> only to reduce power useage and memory price but maybe not. >> I wait with interest. >> If I am unimpressed by that I am not sure what to do long term, probably >> just >> stick to what I have. Apple seems to mainly be a phone company nowadays >> but I >> haven't switched on my PC since I retired just over 3 years ago and didn't >> need it for some of my work. >> I hope Apple doesn't abandon the tower computer, but they must be tempted >> if >> only in it for the money, given the production volumes involved. >> FD >> >> >>> >>> >>> They have not done one of those for many years, my 4 year old one is a >>> dual >>> 4-core and still going strong ;-) >>> >>> john >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > >-- >Mark William Rabiner >Photography >http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >