Computing equipment is essential to virtually everything I do nowadays, outside of taking a walk in the park, sleeping, eating and taking a shower.
So ... it's an essential in my life, independent of cameras. I never buy computer equipment expecting it to be viable forever. I always budget for computer equipment based on a 3-4 year replacement cycle. My recent update to a new cpu unit was driven by my need for software development tools that are now only available on the newer hardware and latest operating system. The fact that it's made my image processing work about 10x as fluid and oodles more productive is a wonderful side benefit. By comparison to your old PC and iBook, anything you buy today will be far far better suited for your photography work. Be sure to stuff at least 4G RAM and a big hard drive in no matter what you buy. You won't regret it. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
