Chad
One of the reasons I stayed with the G4 tower for so long is that the
model that I have is one of the most upgradable "newer' Macs--lots of
room, lots of slots, but slow bus. It's now as old as my PowerMac 7600
was when I got a new one. It's time.
Download sizes: The software for the G4/G5 chip is smaller because the
newer software may be universal binaries containing both PPC and Intel
versions. You can slim it down by removing the excess code with one of
several utilities [search terms: remove excess code from universal
binary--found XSlimmer].
Image quality: Analog photos have near infinite data depending on film
speed, digital ones do not. Some people can see the difference--most
can't, and don't care. There are "miracles" that can be done in the
darkroom that are still difficult to reproduce digitally. National
Geographic, Life Magazine, news photographers used quality cameras and
lenses, and knew how to print their own photos. Did you know that some
photos for NG and Life took hours to print just one, while news shots
were done quickly, but handled/printed by 'experts' [through experience,
trial and error]?
Camera/phones: I went to the Apple store last week to play with an
iPhone. I like it. It's awesome, but too big, too heavy. I like the
Nokia Nseries [Zeiss lenses] better, although they don't talk well with
Macs. Some have WiFi, relatively high res cameras and card slots. The
only downside is that they're hard to unlock. This one is free with a
contract in the UK,
http://www.mobile-review.com/review/nokia-n73-cam-en.shtml [will have
wifi soon]. This one is better as a camera,
http://www.mobile-review.com/review/nokia-n93-cam-en.shtml. The Nokia
site is awful, hard to navigate; can't right-click; no specs; no
HTML--Flash is not appropriate for this kind of info, only for
teasers--but their phones are wonderful. Camera phone reviews on
mobile-review.com give better pix examples than Nokia site.
Betty
Thanks for reply, both from Betty and Tom. Clearly,
my experience with CS3beta at the Apple Store is what
one can expect for the MacPro desktop. Won’t work
for me. Not lost on me is the relative sizes of
downloads for the g4 and the new intel-chip Macs,
often four times the size for the latter. For now it
might be a G5 big berta I should be seeking to bump my
speed in CS2. More research….
I never cease to be astonished at the image quality
mere street reporters were able to achieve with their
SpeedGraphics in the 40’s and 50’s. A quality
which today in digital orient would require $25k to
emulate. A close photographer friend in NB remarked
to me recently how a practised rotate of the wrist in
chemical photography represents hours of digital
screen. Orthodoxies are impossible to counter, my
clients demand the image now, and I provide this.
Here is what my tech-hip Central European friends are
using now, and to a person they are not at all
intrigued by the iPhone. As Apple customer,
end-to-end, it’s hard to accept, but they are truly
conversant with tomorrow, we here remain Model T…
http://www.nseries.com/index.html - l=products,n95
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