Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/03/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My Wife's old 1.1 is now doing yeoman's duty to process office stuff. The pre-2013/2014 Mac Pro still has the simplest drive expansion systems for normal users. AFAIK, Mac Pro 2013/2014 release has been pushed back again? For storage, I would just use whatever internal storage expansion unit they have and then a Drobo with 1.5x to 2x amount and just do constant backup. The last Mac Pro (2009) is still pretty darn good, spec wise. You may want to consider that. 3x 4TB drive and it should last you a couple years and you still have one bay left :-) On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Dante Stella <dstella1 at ameritech.net> wrote: > Hi all - > > Some questions for the hive mind: > > 1. For people who have actually used it, how is the new (late 2013) > Mac Pro? I need to upgrade my model 1,1 - not in the least because it is 7 > years old, draws a ton of power and is not capable of upgrading to 10.8 or > 10.9. For context, I edit a ton of 500mb scans using Photoshop and > Lightroom, and some of these renders are now taking 5-10 seconds (as in > enlarging from LR preview to 100% to dust spot). M240 (DNG) renders are > faster, but it still takes a while to do previews for a whole card. > > 2. What of mass storage? - I have 8Tb of internal storage right now, > and that much SSD capacity would cost as much as a HAL9000 and the > Discovery spaceship it came in. I have looked at Drobo 5D and the Sinology > equivalent. It seems that the Sy has some issues with sleep/waking. Are > these units reliable enough to omit Time Machine/NAS backups? Is a 5T with > the mCard fast enough to use in real time? > > 3. For photo editing, there any limitation in the system that would > make a 27" iMac an equally good choice? I'm willing to drop $3-4K for the > pro model - but what I don't want to do is find out that Lightroom or PS is > bottlenecked at a software level such that an i7 machine would do. > > 4. Any issues with Firewire devices via the Thunderbolt adapter? I'm > thinking of a Nikon LS-8000 or a Sprintscan 120. > > 5. How annoying is it to have an external DVD drive? Where else do > you get nickel and dimed with the Pro? > > 6. If my 1.25-year-old daughter likes putting things in the trash > (notably small toys, car keys, USB drives and SD card readers), does the > Mac Pro look sufficiently like a trash can to act as a decoy receptacle? > > Now two questions about whisk[e]y: > > 1. If I like McGill (I inherited a few bottles from my grandfather), > where can I get some more? If it is defunct, what's the closest Canadian > whiskey? > > 2. As to this bottle of Johnny Walker Green whisky (no e) that has > been staring at me from the bar ever since my birthday, is this something > you drink straight? Rocks? I do know that Red has to be mixed and that > Black is drinkable with ice. I would have to imagine that 15-year blended > whisky has to be drinkable as-is. > > Thanks! > Dante > > NO ARCHIVE > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto