My system is almost identical to Godfrey's. And I have not slowed it
down with any processing I have done video or stills.
The top of the line iMac gives better performance now than the tower
version. And the tower is about to be updated or removed from the line
depending on which rumor your listen to. It is banned now in Europe
because of some electrical problem.
Apple like it or not makes machines that serve 90% of the needs of 90%
of the people 90% of the time.
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Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:38:19 -0800
From: Godfrey DiGiorgi<[email protected]>
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Android tablets for showing photos?
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On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Larry Colen<[email protected]> wrote:
>Which is why, now that I've gotten a paycheck, I'm starting to look for a good
deal on a used 8-core mac pro for my photo processing machine.
>
>I've seen a few of them on craigslist for $1,000 -$1,400. I expect I'll need
to add drives, memory, a second display card, a USB 3 card, and might need a
second ethernet card.
I dunno, Larry. I do my photography with a Mac mini quad-core 2.6GHz,
16G RAM, 1T internal drive, and lots of external storage (12 Terabytes
at present) connected over FireWire 800 bus. My medium format film
scans run into several hundred Mbytes apiece in DNG format, the little
mini is quite responsive. 18-24 Mpixel raw files ... no sweat at all.
Would cost $1300 or so at retail, new with a three year extended
warranty. Takes up 1/10 the space (or less) on my desk and is utterly
quiet in operation, uses far less power.
You can flip the 1T internal for a 250G or larger SSD?from OWC for
more performance.
What do you really need a Mac Pro 8-core for? My brother uses one of
those but he does real-time work (video/audio editing - it's his
business:http://www.headlinestudios.net/Headline_Studios.html) which
is orders of magnitude more demanding than still photography work.
-- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com
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