Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/03/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sounds like you are on a roll! On 3/9/14 10:05 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 -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/