Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > -- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information