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Subject: [Leica] Image Editing System
From: frank.dernie at btinternet.com (FRANK DERNIE)
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 07:32:00 +0100 (BST)
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I have an iMac dedicated to being a music server. Its 27" screen is visible 
anywhere in the room, and compared to high end hifi it is not expensive. I 
do display some of my pictures on it for family and friends but haven't used 
it for my normal photo stuff.
I would imagine it would be pretty good.
FD




>________________________________
> From: Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
>To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> 
>Sent: Sunday, 9 June 2013, 7:04
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Image Editing System
> 
>
>I'm just fresh from seeing an excellent documentary about Julian Assange at
>Lincoln Center and the Wikileaks thing.
>We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks - In theaters now
>A visually stunning film and I was at the edge of my seat for two hours and
>I'd not slept in 48 so that's saying something.
>
>I was entranced by the footage of Julian Assange going from place to place
>with as much luggage as he seemed to be able to carry on trains? and there
>was always a fresh supply of very cool new luggage for every trip and lots
>of it. More than most guys carry.
>Later in the flick I figured out why so much luggage.
>He did not use a MacBook Pro (no air then). He used an Apple - iMac.
>
>Turns out in our contract with being a human on planet earth circa early
>second millennium we're allowed to use one.
>Its a? move I almost made but didn't.? I was told to do that. And it turned
>out ive spent less time in motels or hotels in the past years than I thought
>I would. Making the laptop lifestyle the obvious choice. Other than using a
>laptop is a kind of expected default.
>
>Yet the Imax lets you pack a real computer with you and is still portable.
>Maybe its the way to go. The entire computer is packed into the rather large
>monitor. And you have a separate keyboard. And mouse..
>I may have been far far better of doing that. I'd be a frigging millionaire
>by now. But I consider myself to have done that in an alternate universe.
>
>http://www.apple.com/imac/
>
>A laptop you can do stuff in a Starbucks or a staricase but an iMac you seem
>to need a motel room to set up in.? or at home. which is kind of ok with me.
>
>
>On 6/9/13 1:33 AM, "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>> So is mine! I understand a new Mac Pro is due this summer, which I may 
>> buy if
>> only to reduce power useage and memory price but maybe not.
>> I wait with interest.
>> If I am unimpressed by that I am not sure what to do long term, probably 
>> just
>> stick to what I have. Apple seems to mainly be a phone company nowadays 
>> but I
>> haven't switched on my PC since I retired just over 3 years ago and didn't
>> need it for some of my work.
>> I hope Apple doesn't abandon the tower computer, but they must be tempted 
>> if
>> only in it for the money, given the production volumes involved.
>> FD
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> They have not done one of those for many years, my 4 year old one is a 
>>> dual
>>> 4-core and still going strong ;-)
>>> 
>>> john
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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