Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, Also take a look in the Apple Store to the I-Mac line, so with a 21 inch screen, you can also get some software and/or upgrade with your budget. Horacio. On 8/11/09 3:28 PM, "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > I'm needing to replace my PowerBook G4 12" G4 1.5 GHz L2 Cache 512 KB, > Memory 1.25 GB with a Macbook Pro. The screen is getting grayer and grayer. > Like now. > > I'm going to walk from the Soho Store to the Meatmarket store today and > place my order tonight or tomorrow. It's a half hour walk. > > I get to upgrade my CS3 suite to CS4 > My Microsoft office to the newest. > Filemaker > Tec tools > > http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/ > > Any thoughts on what I need on configuration as a photographer and guy > named > Mark Rabiner?? > Do I really need a faster thing or is the slower ones just fine? > I looked at test results it looks like I'm paying 400 bucks for one percent > better speed on those speed options. > I can upgrade those later it seems like. Next year when its twice as fast > for half as much. > The hard disk would not seem to need to be that big. I always have one on > the side anyway. And right now I only have 80 gigs. The smallest one is 3 > times that if not 4. > >> From what I'm used to with this thing a Macbook non pro would knock me >> right > out of my seat it would seem. And those are being phased out it looks like. > Right now I cant even look at my 5 star pix in Bridge. > I hit the button it says "are you crazy I'm just not in the mood!" > > Would a 15 inch screen be better than a 13 for any non obvious reason? > > Reply off list if you think you might be saying stuff which is really > inscrutable, unpleasant or boring to the Leica loving public. > > My budget, software included is 2400 US dollars > In un marked un sequenced bills. > > I think each digital camera body in the future will come with its own > dedicated mini laptop with 6x9 inch screen which can wirelessly control it. > This is my lame excuse for posting this here. > That and I have no way to turn. You guys are my only friends. I have no > life. > No that's not really true. > There is Lucy. > > > Mark William Rabiner Pro > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information