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Subject: [Leica] Image Editing System
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey at mchsi.com)
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:07:22 -0500 (CDT)

No the iMac is my home computer.  I do have a Macbook for the road, which I 
need to replace in the next year, as it is 7 years old, but then it still 
works just fine, short of a blown speaker.

Gene

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 12:04:03 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [Leica] Image Editing System

You also  use a laptop?
Tablet?

I know you said you have it set up at home but:
Have you ever taking your imac on the road somewhere? Set it up in a motel?





On 6/10/13 12:35 PM, "Gene duprey" <grduprey at mchsi.com> wrote:

> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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> 
> 
> 




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