Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When I travel, I carry a small Mac Powerbook, the same as Nathan. My 12" G4 Powerbook serves both as a repository of images and a preliminary editing tool. However the 12" Powerbook is no longer on the market. Its replacements, the MacBooks, new and old, are larger, having 13" screens, and more costly. Further the new MacBooks no longer have the Firewire port that enables other Mac computers to directly access the drives of the portables. Admittedly, the newer Mac laptops use Intel microprocessors, but most photographic software is available for the G4s. Photographers who wish to follow Nathan's good example should pick up a used 12" Aluminum Powerbook on eBay. They cost just about the price of a much less capable internet computer and will run all of the good image manipulation software, including Photoshop, Lightroom, Aperture, and GraphicConverter, as well as hosting iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD. To coin a phrase "They don't make them like they used to." Larry Z On Jan 9, 2009, at 12:24 AM, Nathan wrote: >> I travel a fair amount, and usually I take my Powerbook G4 with >> me. - - - - - The advantage of this setup is >> that the Powerbook has enough horsepower to process images in >> Lightroom so >> that when I came home Tuesday afternoon, I had already processed >> the 1000 >> images from the trip during the evenings.