On Feb 4, 2013, at 8:51 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: > Larry, full specs of your fine horse aside, I think modern knight should ride > modern CPU while Core Duo 2.4 GHz is good, but even my lowly i5 seems way > ahead of my previous dual core CPU. > > Granted you will get some visible speed up by going SSD, I think that a more > thorough overhaul is in order...
It looks like the most bang for the buck is to find a used mac pro. That would have the added benefit of the disks being internal rather than external. > > Here comes the evil part: may be buying that 8 mm was a bit premature :-). Except that: 1) One of my first paychecks was already budgeted towards the computer upgrade. 2) I basically had a windfall of something like $250 at Amazon, so the fisheye was only about $70 out of pocket, and it's unlikely that I'd have been able to use the windfall money for a new system anyways. > -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.

