[Leica] Mark Book Pro

[r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor)]

Mark - Buy the fastest one you can afford and and get the one with the  
largest screen.  You'll be alot .

Software gets more complex as features are added slowing the machine  
down so you always need to buy faster rather than slower when buying  
new. The new version of Office for the Mac is a real processor hog,  
BTW.  CS4 is much the same.

I'm in the same boat with my iMac.  It's a mere 1.3 GHz machine and,  
apart from the rapidly darkening screen, Lightroom 2 is a real  
challenge for it.  I use it, but it's sometimes annoyingly slow,  
particularly in switching between modules.   CS4 Bridge also loads  
very slowly.

So, buy fast.  You don't want to spend you life watching the SBOD  
(Spinning Beach Ball of Death).

Regards,

Dick



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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