[Leica] OT Mac Display calibration

[jbmmllug at jbm.org (Jeff Moore)]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Bill Pearce <billcpearce at cox.net> wrote:
> I have occasionally considered getting a mac, but my various other apple
> items that I have owned have give me reason to pause, but the one thing 
> that
> scares the crap out of me is monitor calibration. Don't think using 
> eyeballs
> for that is a good idea.

There's no reason for that in particular to be the thing holding you
back.  Mainstream serious monitor calibration are made to work fine
with Macs.  I've been using an XRite something-or-other for years.

Mac OS X is a fine desktop operating system.  My favorite for years, in fact.

On the other hand, I have no use for Apple's personal iDevices, and
have avoided iTunes like the plague it is for quite awhile.

Choose the best tool for the job.  For me it's Mac OS X as a desktop
OS (running Lightroom to develop digital photos), Android (on either
Nexus or Moto X devices) for a phone / pocket computer gizmo, Linux or
one of the BSDs for servers which have to stay up and keep working for
months and years.

I've found iPhones and iPads a duller tool for personal productivity
than a good, clean, pure-Google Android device - but they aren't
terrible, just not my preference.

Windows is the best tool for absolutely nothing I'm interested in.
I'm familiar with its ins and outs, because I unfortunately need to
support a number of Windows machines for work, but it's a bad desktop
OS and a terrible thing to try to use for a server.

-Jeff