Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/19

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Subject: [Leica] glossy screen iMac problems
From: octabod at gmail.com (Luis Miguel Castañeda Navas)
Date: Sun Oct 19 22:23:21 2008
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On 19/10/2008, at 22:19, Mark Pope wrote:

> From a purely value for money point of view, I wonder whether the  
> Mac mini and a monitor such as the Apple cinema LCD (total cost  
> about $1500)  would be a better bet than the 24" Imac at $1800?   
> Anyone have any thoughts?

the mac mini is fine for office stuff or as mediacenter, for amateur  
image processing is a bit tight, no real VRAM, and either not a great  
video card, but if you, as most users, were just processing text,  
email, web and use client programs in your business it's a good choice.

The imac used to have (and afaik they still have) two bays for HDs, so  
you always can put another HD of your choice and/or replacing the  
original one at the store for another with more capacity. And yes,  
Apple always was slightly stingy with the base equipment given on  
their computers, since my first mac back in the 80's I always had to  
buy extra stuff... but also I had to do it with every PC's I bought too.



I feel better, to hell with photography, art, women, and all
E. Weston, 1924
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