[Leica] Mark Book Pro

[ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)]

I love my 17, but given the budget, I'd go with the 13. I just bought  
my daughter one and it is sweet!
Glossy screen on both--I never want another matt

my youngest is still pounding away on my old 12, which I still miss in  
form factor. the new speed will quickly win you to the new machine,  
making the 12 a real creeper.

max out on third party RAM.

Add a big external monitor as soon as you can--the extra real estate  
is heaven. I run a 23 cinema display simultaneously with the 17 as one  
continuous desktop. that let's you enjoy the improved travel of the 13  
over the 15, but still have lots of room when you are home. I also  
find externals easier to keep calibrated

Ric Carter
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/





On Aug 11, 2009, at 3:28 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> I'm needing to replace my PowerBook G4 12" G4 1.5 GHz L2 Cache 512 KB,
> Memory 1.25 GB with a Macbook Pro. The screen is getting grayer and  
> grayer.
> Like now.
>
> I'm going to walk from the Soho Store to the Meatmarket store today  
> and
> place my order tonight or tomorrow. It's a half hour walk.
>
> I get to upgrade my CS3 suite to CS4
> My Microsoft office to the newest.
> Filemaker
> Tec tools
>
> http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/
>
> Any thoughts on what I need on configuration as a photographer and  
> guy named
> Mark Rabiner??
> Do I really need a faster thing or is the slower ones just fine?
> I looked at test results it looks like I'm paying 400 bucks for one  
> percent
> better speed on those speed options.
> I can upgrade those later it seems like. Next year when its twice as  
> fast
> for half as much.
> The hard disk would not seem to need to be that big. I always have  
> one on
> the side anyway.  And right now I only have 80 gigs. The smallest  
> one is 3
> times that if not 4.
>
>> From what I'm used to with this thing a Macbook non pro would knock  
>> me right
> out of my seat it would seem. And those are being phased out it  
> looks like.
> Right now I cant even look at my 5 star pix in Bridge.
> I hit the button it says "are you crazy I'm just not in the mood!"
>
> Would a 15 inch screen be better than a 13 for any non obvious reason?
>
> Reply off list if you think you might be saying stuff which is really
> inscrutable, unpleasant or boring to the Leica loving public.
>
> My budget, software included is 2400 US dollars
> In un marked un sequenced bills.
>
> I think each digital camera body in the future will come with its own
> dedicated mini laptop with 6x9 inch screen which can wirelessly  
> control it.
> This is my lame excuse for posting this here.
> That and I have no way to turn. You guys are my only friends. I have  
> no
> life.
> No that's not really true.
> There is Lucy.
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner Pro
>
>
>
>
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