[Leica] Re: OT Going Mac?

[leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams)]

Perfectly happy with my 20" iMac with 4gb RAM. Adobe Lightroom runs very 
fast and smooth, I'm usually working with 1,000 images or 
more at a time. I don't think I'll ever buy another PC again though I'll 
keep using my Dell laptops tell they croak for email and 
invoices.

Chris



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Lilley" <54moggie@embarqmail.com>
To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 8:43 AM
Subject: OT Going Mac? - was RE: [Leica] OT: 2 questions: computer and Spain


> This is a good thread for me - I have to make decisions about a new 
> computer
> as well.  I have used DOS/Windows/Unix all my computer life - even during 
> my
> long career in graphics and pre-press (more textual publishing than page
> layout and art).  The ad agency types I worked with were fanatical about 
> Mac
> and I always felt it was more of a cult thing as all of the imaging 
> software
> was available on cheaper, more powerful and better networking (appletalk,
> sigh!) Intel platforms.  I have always been a fan of Adobe software - and
> that works on either platform.
>
> However, now that I have decided to go to a "light room" and digital 
> output,
> Crossing over from data manipulation to art, I see the possible need for
> going over to Mac.  Tell me truly; is Mac better wysiwyg than a tweaked,
> color corrected Windows system?  What Mac model should I get - I would be
> using it for just the photo stuff?  At least now I will understand the
> underpinnings - it's basically a derivation of Berkeley Unix from what I
> hear - that shoulda improved the networking!
>
> Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+54moggie=embarqmail.com@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+54moggie=embarqmail.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Brian Reid
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 8:42 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: 2 questions: computer and Spain
>
>
>> 1. Anybody on the list running both Windows and OS X on the new Mac's?
> If so, how do you find it?  Pros and cons?  I'm having to use Windows at
> work and have Mac's at home and need to make some decisions about a new
> laptop.
>
> I am. I run XP Professional and OS X on my Mac laptop. It works really 
> well,
> with two exceptions:
>
> 1. Devices: access to some USB devices is dicey from XP. It can be done, 
> but
> it's not straightforward. An example of where it is a big nuisance is
> syncing a Palm Pilot. There is a new release of Parallels that I haven't 
> yet
> tried; it might have a fix for this problem.
>
> 2. Backups: the Windows disk looks like one giant file in the Mac world, 
> and
> every time you start Windows, even just to look at it, that file changes,
> which means that the entire many-gigabyte file will get backed up. My Mac
> backup program (Retrospect) doesn't know how to look inside the Windows
> virtual disk file and back up only those parts that have changed. This has
> caused me to stop backing up that file, which means that my Windows world 
> is
> not being backed up. Anything that I have in
> Windows that matters I drag to the folder that is shared between Windows 
> and
> Mac OS.
>
>
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