Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jun 8, 2013, at 11:32 PM, FRANK DERNIE <frank.dernie at btinternet.com> wrote: > 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. fabulous.... > 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 >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information