On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Gerrit Visser <[email protected]> wrote: > What, the Mac world is not perfect? What a shock..... :-)
Perfection is relative. :-) > Next time that you need to do a large download, come on over for a > cappuccino :-) Lots of bandwidth here. Well I'm hoping to! Did you get my email of Sunday? > You are correct though, an SSD upgrade buys you a lot of performance. LR4 on > my HP ProBook was a joy to use for editing the 10,000+ DNG photos on our > recent cruise. My new dilemna is whether to go back through and see if the > tilt correction in LR5 produces a better result for my photos or not. Maybe > I will only tweak those that go into the slide shows. > > Gerrit > > > -----Original Message----- > From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Walker > Sent: April 18, 2013 2:32 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available > > > Well Dave, I bit the bullet and installed Mac OS X Mountain Lion > (10.8.3) yesterday. $19.99 in the App Store. Took all afternoon to download, > but so far -- touch wood -- the upgrade has gone okay. > > I found a solution for sync'ing my Nokia cellphone (SyncMate - free) and > figured out how to undo most of the UI damage / new features. I'm attempting > to teach myself to scroll backwards but I may give up and undo that change > too. > > Surprisingly it seems to be no worse a resource pig on my 2007 iMac than > 10.6.8 was, possibly even a little lighter and faster, so my slowdown fears > were unfounded. Of course my SSD graft-in of a couple of months ago was in > preparation for this and has helped a great deal. > > I still have to find replacements for a couple of PowerPC apps that I used > to calculate mat dimensions when framing, but for now I can run them on my > even more ancient PowerBook. > > In summary: for twenty bucks go ahead and install Mountain Lion. Cheap > upgrade. > > -- > -bmw > > -- > 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. > > > -- > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
