Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That is the biggest bunch of baloney I've read all day ... 1) Your assumption that value-for-money is not an issue just because we are Leica users??? If a $100 Nikkor 50/1.8 would give me 80% of what my $1000 50mm Summicron does ... I'd have a drawer full of the little buggers. 2) Your argument for 'quality' is vacuous ... unless you specify what 'qualities' (i.e. attributes, properties, etc.) you value. If the ability to pull a 6500lb trailer (Ford Expedition -vs- BMW X5) or a usable professional digicam (Nikon D1 -vs- Leica ???) are the 'qualities' a person values ... Back to the subject at hand ... the person who wrote that Adobe Photoshop works exactly the same on both PC & Mac is absolutely correct. The most important thing to consider when configuring a PC or Mac for Photoshop is to have 512MB - 1GB of memory (512MB if scanning at 2700dpi, 1GB for 4000dpi), a really fast and big hard drive(s) (I use RAID striping of two 7200RPM drives for media and a separate system drive) and a really good video card & monitor. Everything else (PC -vs- Mac, 800MHz -vs- 1GHz, etc.) is secondary and relatively unimportant. Finally (since I'm on a roll here :-), to the person who wrote about system stability ... you obviously haven't used Windows 2000 or XP. How many stock exchanges are run on Mac OS??? How many enterprise databases run on Mac OS??? How many enterprise anything runs on Mac OS??? Regards, Victor Tavernini Joseph Yao <joseph@yao.com> wrote: Since we are all Leica users, I would have imagined value-for-money or costs should not be a critical issue. You can buy a Ford or you can buy a BMW. You can buy a PC or you can buy a Mac. You can buy a Nikon or you can buy a Leica. You can have quality or you can have value. I value quality and design above everything else. I use a Mac and prefer a BMW over a Ford, and would prefer to shoot with a Leica over a Nikon. Macs still cost more, but only marginally so. And as far as I am concerned, I am more than happy to pay the extras for something more elegant, more user friendly and has tons more character. We all have our choices and decide accordingly. Yours brainwashed, Joseph Mac user, BMW driver, and above all, Leica shooter. ;-) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html