Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I use a iMac here at the house. Nice, compact, great screen. Mine is not the latest and still has the Super Drive unit, which I think isnow defunct in the latest version. Gene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Sunday, June 9, 2013 1:04:49 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central 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