At work, the most difficult part of the upgrade is getting one's computer to (1) run, and (2) play nicely with all the s#!t the hospital loads it with--"management" software, security software, their own updating software, network stuff, and about a dozen apps via Citrix.
Rick On Mar 15, 2016, at 10:59 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > My Mac upgrades have always gone quite smoothly, and the latest was the most > effortless. I’m running OS X 10.11.3 on the iMac Retina 5K. One would expect > the latest hardware and latest OS to work well together and they do. With a > 4GHz Intel Core i7 processor, 32 Gigs of RAM and the Radeon R9 M395 graphics > card it rips right through any PhotoShop job that I’ve ever attempted. I have > quite a few peripherals: two printers, a scanner, a Wacom tablet and a second > monitor (another iMac 27 running in target mode), but there was nothing to > set up, just plug and play. The OS updated all the drivers on installation. I > expect I would have had more difficulty had I tried to run an older OS. > > Paul >> On Mar 15, 2016, at 7:37 AM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Rick, I'm still on 10/6.8 myself for the reasons you just mentioned.:-) >> >> Dave >> >> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 10:16 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: >>> And that, Mark, is why I'm running OS X 10.6.8 on my photo computer. >>> >>> Last year I upgraded my work computer to OS X 10.10 (Yosemite). It >>> took me a day and a half to install and configure the software and get >>> things working--which is more unscheduled time than I have most weeks. >>> >>> Rick >>> http://photo.net/photos/RickW >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 9:45 PM, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On 3/14/2016 7:35 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: >>>>> >>>>> So I finally decided to upgrade my ageing computer. I'm almost >>>>> embarrassed to say how old it is. In fact, I *am* embarrassed to say, >>>>> so I won't! >>>>> >>>>> So, a motherboard transplant has taken place. Fast, multi-core >>>>> processor, lots of fast RAM, USB3, etc. And, as the subject line says, >>>>> it's agony. Not the physical replacement of the motherboard, of >>>>> course. That took an hour or so and was a snap. But you really need to >>>>> re-install the O.S. when you replace a motherboard, so I went with a >>>>> clean install. Which also isn't really a big deal. The big deal is >>>>> re-installing and configuring all your applications. That's the agony. >>>>> After a day and a half of stress I've got all the drivers up to date >>>>> for the new hardware and all the basics installed (color management, >>>>> profiling software, etc.). Now I get to add all my main apps, >>>>> including parts of various Adobe suites (some from CS6, some from CS5 >>>>> and some from CS4). I haven't even dared count how many other apps I >>>>> have to set up. >>>>> >>>>> Time to take up drinking, I think. >>>>> >>>>> (But the new computer does seem very fast and slick, so maybe this'll >>>>> all be worth it.) >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> A fast computer is worth almost any pain it causes. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. >> >> >> >> -- >> Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. >> www.caughtinmotion.com >> http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ >> York Region, Ontario, Canada >> >> -- >> 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. http://photo.net/photos/RickW -- 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.
