Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Nikon Coolscan and VueScan 1.4 imaging software
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 10:11:35 -0500

At 01:13 AM 4/9/99 -0600, you wrote:
>hardware, and the best is very good indeed. The Powerbooks 100, 140 and 170
>were fantastic machines for their time, and so were the 200-series (Duo).
>The rest have been fairly undistinguished.

Fastest in the world undistinguished? Standard built-in video? Standard 
output for a large monitor and mouse and Firewire? The latest G3 Powerbooks 
make the best Win machines look anemic. And prices are better 
performance-wise. And for graphics professionals, the 300 MHz Powerbooks 
are the ideal on-the-road machines. And those 14.1 TFT screens are 
gorgeous. For someone who wants one machine that does home and on the road, 
they can't beat.

For Leica M types who eschew technology, none of this matters. :-)

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

When there's a will, I want to be in it.