I should add that I also love my iPad and iPhone so I haven't broken free of the cult yet.
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > Not to start a Holy War or anything, but I gotta tell you, as a Mac > guy since 1996 (no, wait, that was my 2nd Mac - an LC DOS > Compatible)... err, since '88 I've been a Mac guy. Wife still has a > Powerbook and I have several old Macs moldering in the basement. But I > built my own computer and it is a AMD 64-bit Windows 7 machine and I > have no complaints. Windows 7 is the most "Mac-like" Microsloth OS yet > and I really like it. I can dual boot it with Ubuntu (but virtually > never do). I've also got a 64 bit Win7 machine at work. > > I'll be in the market for a decent laptop soon to take out and run the > autoguider with a telescope, and I will probably be looking at > something refurb from NewEgg where I can spend $300 bucks or so and > get something that will do the job. The extra money saved over buying > a newish Mac will be spent on astro equipment or more Pentax glass or > sumpin'. > > With decent prophylactics for your WIndows machine (Microsoft Security > Essentials and MalwareBytes realtime) you are in pretty good shape > these days, but that wasn't always the case. > > > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 9:09 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: >> on 2014-01-09 18:14 Larry Colen wrote >> >>> 3) High res 1680x1050, this seems to be the one to get, but the >>> inexpensive ones seem to be gone from the apple store as of today, >>> all of the ones left charge the apple tax on memory and drive. >> >> >> i have one, early 2011 model; the last of these were the mid-2012; there are >> a few other outlets for refurbs, like Expercom & MicroCenter, but even if >> they have this model, they may have California tax too >> >> to me, the biggest appeal of this display is the matte glass; i did also >> like the idea of lots of pixels - i spent the 90s pining for higher pixel >> pitches — but it can be hard to read and i tend to move windows to the >> attached 24" display >> >> i never planned to edit images on the built-in display; it is not great for >> that - see this comparison: >> >> <http://www.anandtech.com/show/5113/apple-15inch-macbook-pro-late-2011-review/3> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > > > -- > Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs > look like photographs. > ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- 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.
