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Email I got from a friend while napping:
I know you need a car. I know you need the lower half of your body
replaced. I know that you have to eat.
But, seriously... buy a Mac mini. You won't regret it. Food and
the ability to walk are overrated.
The learning curve is tolerable, the support system is grand, and the
platform is crazy-full of photographer's goodies.
Screw Photoshop and Lightroom. Use Graphics Converter and iPhoto, or
Gimp and Picasa, or PixelMator (http://www.pixelmator.com/) and Shoebox (http://www.kavasoft.com/Shoebox/)...
Buy the base model mini and upgrade it later with parts from http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/mac-mini/
It's worth the $600. It's not a speed demon, and it's no gamer's box
- but it will do everything you want it to do.
You don't even have to switch to the Mac full time with a Mac mini. It
can be your photo and music center (I'm sure you'll be syncing your
iPhone pictures to it, so it may as well house your paltry music
collection as well), available at the turn of a knob on a cheap
Keyboard/Video/Mouse switch.
There is no need to step out of your comfort zone for "everything
else" while you find a home for all your pictures.
...you know you wanna....
Who needs hips anyway?
- G
With friends like these, who needs peer pressure?
I know you need a car. I know you need the lower half of your body
replaced. I know that you have to eat.
But, seriously... buy a Mac mini. You won't regret it. Food and
the ability to walk are overrated.
The learning curve is tolerable, the support system is grand, and the
platform is crazy-full of photographer's goodies.
Screw Photoshop and Lightroom. Use Graphics Converter and iPhoto, or
Gimp and Picasa, or PixelMator (http://www.pixelmator.com/) and Shoebox (http://www.kavasoft.com/Shoebox/)...
Buy the base model mini and upgrade it later with parts from http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/mac-mini/
It's worth the $600. It's not a speed demon, and it's no gamer's box
- but it will do everything you want it to do.
You don't even have to switch to the Mac full time with a Mac mini. It
can be your photo and music center (I'm sure you'll be syncing your
iPhone pictures to it, so it may as well house your paltry music
collection as well), available at the turn of a knob on a cheap
Keyboard/Video/Mouse switch.
There is no need to step out of your comfort zone for "everything
else" while you find a home for all your pictures.
...you know you wanna....
Who needs hips anyway?
- G
With friends like these, who needs peer pressure?