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Subject: [Leica] Image Editing System
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 06:44:47 -0700
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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
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> Photography
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>> 
>> 
>> 
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