I'm learning to use a Mac so bear with me. Thanks for the sticky on how to post a picture and thanks Wldrns for the MAc specific instructions.
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Another MAC user who would be happy to help out!BREATH OF FRESH AIR PHOTOGRAPHY Website
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ADK46er #5438; CAT3500 #1745; CL50 #98; NPT FinisherComment
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Yea.
"Now I see the secret of making the best person, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth." -Walt WhitmanComment
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me too.He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.Comment
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Is there any other
"I can feel your anger. It gives you focus. It makes you stronger. " Supreme ChancellorComment
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I recently made the transition myself. On Saturday morning, I took my old Dell for it's 'last ride' down to the UPS shipping station...off to a new home a la eBay. I won't miss it.
In some shape or form, I'm using up to 3 cameras with my new Mac. Using Adobe Lightroom for about 99% of my needs. I'm very happy with how smoothly everything's running.
Truth be told, I haven't quit cold turkey; I used Boot Camp to install WinXP on a small partition. I'm amazed at how well it has worked. The only quirk I've found is that my number pad on the right of the keyboard doesn't work.
I only use it for a few minor tasks - Autostitch pano work, using a couple PC-only mapping softwares I have, and running MS Access for work. Pretty sweet system. I'm open to any suggestions on free Mac panorama tools that work as well as Autostitch.Comment
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I use Photostitch pano software on the MAC side of my IMac. It works great!BREATH OF FRESH AIR PHOTOGRAPHY Website
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ADK46er #5438; CAT3500 #1745; CL50 #98; NPT FinisherComment
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I use Canon's Photostitch, that is apparently only available bundled with a Canon camera.
Check the dpreview forum here, or this site, or versiontracker."Now I see the secret of making the best person, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth." -Walt WhitmanComment
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Soon when I have the time, I'm going to attempt to upgrade my computer from Windows F!@*&# Vista to Windows XP.
When I brought my new computer home, my monitor, digital camera, scanner, imaging software and many others did not work under Windows F!@*&# Vista.
I should have returned my computer right then and there and got a mac.
I will be sticking with XP until the very end but believe me, after 20+ years using Microsoft products, if the next Windows OS is anywhere near half as bad as Windows F!@*&# Vista is, I will be joining you guys as a proud Macintosh user.Comment
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I keep telling my friends I'm not an atheist after all--I worship my iMac.Comment
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I feel primitive. My main machine is a 9-year-old Gateway running Windows 98. I've got 2 hard drives, a cd/rom and a cd/rw, memory is maxed out. It's a real workhorse and does everything I need it to do.
I recently inherited an 8-year-old Dell machine running Windows 98/SE. I wiped and reloaded the damn thing (5 times!) and I still can't get it to recognize that there is a modem in it.
I also have a rebuilt Compaq running Windows XP, but which I only use when doing documentation for a project I'm helping with. I maintain a Dell machine with Windows ME for one family member (and I really mean maintain it, since it needs fixing every 3 months or so).
Another family member just bought a new Gateway with Vista, which I really don't want to know anything about, but I'm sure I'll get stuck playing with it as problems crop up. In fact, I have to go and set it up for cable access this friday. I've already started crying out to the Good Lord for help and mercy...Comment
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I've really never had a problem with Windows but I built and serviced computers in college. I know the system fairly well and can figure out the issues most of the time.If I cannot my sister who loves to fix computers and software issues can usually help.
However, I won't upgrade to Vista although my wife does have it on her/our laptop, and I almost took it off the laptop till my sis hooked us up with Vista ultimate. The HP installed Vista was buggy at best.
The reason is other than multimedia (using your computer as an entertainment center) it really offers nothing but loses a lot.
The issue was Microsoft at the last minute did major changes (i assume to fix security issues that always plague windows), and the backwards compatible drivers were essentially destroyed. Since microsoft doesn't make the drivers a ot of these companies just said, "the hell with it, we made them once in good faith, if you want to use our products you need to upgrade". Even my brother was complaining that his "Windows Vista Ready Video Game" didn't work on Vista.
The flip side is all isn't roses with Macs. I see way too often people trying to figure out a way to get PC only equivalents of stuff, or running virtual windows operating systems. This all seems like a lot of work. Linux isn't much/any better. I'd love to leave microsoft, but until drivers and software are readily available it's easier to spend a few hours a year fixing my OS and tweaking it. Than trying to work around the lack of support.
In terms of graphics being solely the land of the mac. A friend of mine creates video games, he is the graphic artist end of it, and he said he never used a Mac professionally. Yeah, we were suprised too but he said it's pretty common now for PCs to be used for just about everything.
But no matter what you use, don't you love the PC vs Mac commercials? Those are the absolute best.sigpic
"As to every healthy boy with a taste for outdoor life, the northern forest -the Adirondacks- were to me a veritable land of enchantment." -Theodore Roosevelt
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A year ago, I purchased my lap top PC. It seems I should have gone with a mac....
But, It came with XP, but you could order Vista at no charge... Based on all that I keep seeing and hearing, I am glad the Vista disks are collecting dust on a shelf....
That said, my HP works well, and all my pics look great. I guess thats what matters.....I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)Comment
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