If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#51
|
|||
|
|||
Question for you Apple crazies
On Jun 18, 2018, Bill W wrote
(in ): On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 21:39:23 -0700, Savageduck wrote: With the cellular option you can buy LTE cellular on a monthly basis, as you need it from a variety of providers, for both North America, and overseas. I wasn't aware of that, but I can also tether to my phone. Yup! That is always an option. With my old iPad2 I always used my iPhone Hotspot option. Just be wary of the AT&T offering as that can lock you up. For North America the T-Mobile option seems to be the best way to go. They have an introductory offer which is not too bad, but after that their rate climbs, but is still useful when it is needed. We have had a couple of power outages out here, and having LTE access at those times has been useful. -- Regards, Savageduck |
#52
|
|||
|
|||
Question for you Apple crazies
On 6/19/2018 12:32 AM, Savageduck wrote:
On Jun 18, 2018, Bill W wrote (in ): On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 21:27:41 -0400, PeterN wrote: On 6/15/2018 12:14 AM, Bill W wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 00:05:25 -0400, PeterN wrote: On 6/13/2018 10:08 PM, Bill W wrote: My home is paid for, and I'm moving to a place where housing is about half what it is here, so if I buy something about the same size, I might have enough left over to buy an Apple product... So some questions: Most important, is there any point in shopping around for the best price on a Macbook Pro, or is the pricing pretty much fixed? I see that there a lot of listings with years mentioned. How far back can I go to be able to dual boot into Windows? How far back to get a great retina display? And how far back to get great performance, something that is more than adequate for LR & PS, video and audio editing? How far back where I can still easily add a second high quality display? That is a fine machine. Whether you are getting one depends upon what you plan to use it for. One of my reasons for not getting one, is that I do not like a glossy screen. I find that I do not get the tonality in the darker areas with a glossy screen, that I get with a matte screen. If you plan to use it just for family type, or event pictures, it will be fine. Based on my experience with the iPhone, and iPad, Apple service has been satisfactory. The techies seem to know what they are doing. I can't say about dual boot on the portable, but I'm sure that you will get an honest and knowledgeable answer from Apple. As for price, some of the big box stores sell either reconditioned, or out of the box machines. I don't know about Apple. However, based upon my on experience I would only purchase an Apple product directly from Apple. But that's the conservative purchaser in me. Like I told Duck, I haven't so much as touched any Apple computer since the Lisa(?) many years ago. And when I shop, I don't even glance at the Apple section, so it's pretty important for me to stop in somewhere and actually look at one of these things... As I stated above, while i personally do not like the Apple notebooks, for the reasons stated, assuming similar specs, i don't think there is any substantial usability or performance difference between them, when using Photoshop. Well I finally went to a store and looked at the Apple products. I was surprised that the reflective screen did not bother me at all, so that's not an issue. Another thing that surprised me was that there appeared to be about a zero learning curve for getting around in MacOS for a strict Windows user, so that's another issue out of the way. I also looked at the iPad Pros, and now I'm seriously considering starting out with one of those. My original purpose was to get something for travel that would do everything I can do at home. The Macbook fits that bill perfectly, and it can also replace my utility computer at home, and do a lot more than that. But after a lot of research, it appears that the iPad can do just about everything I would want for travel, along with being more portable. My current tablet is used mostly as a reader, and the iPad will be a perfect replacement since it can do so much more. It also appears that you can easily do a lot of photo editing on that thing. On top of everything else, the current processor in the iPad Pro is one of the fastest you can get, tablet or desktop. Best Buy has a 10.5"/256 version for about $670. That's got my interest. Check on whether that iPad Pro is WiFi only, or WiFi+Cellular. If you are going to use it for travel it is best to have all options available. As ubiquitous as WiFi hotspots are these days, inevitably you will find yourself someplace without WiFi. Also, consider getting the 512GB edition, it is good to have the extra room. Also, get the Lightning Camera Kit which will give you an SD card reader, and a USB connection for your camera. As useful as WiFi syncing from many cameras to iPad can be, with the iPad, using the SD card reader from the Camera Kit is quicker. Also buy the Apple Pencil. It is a great input, and editing device. Then if I remember correctly you already subscribe to Adobe CC Photography plan to give you Lightroom CCC + Photoshop CC. Lightroom CC (mobile) which as a stand-alone on the iPad is free, but the full sync power is included with the Adobe CC package, that way everything you load on the iPad is synced back to your desktop/laptop. With $9.99/month Adobe CC Photography plan you get 20GB of CC storage. I opted to upgrade my storage, so for $14.99/month I get Adobe CC + 1TB of Creative Cloud storage. That more than covers my needs for any trip. So make sure that on your iPad Pro you install the free Adobe Photoshop Express, Photoshop Mix, Photoshop Mix, and Lightroom CC. Also, if you want a truly powerful photo editor on the iPad, buy Affinity Photo. All of those apps are available via the Apple iOS AppStore. The iPad Pro is a great tool, and makes a fair replacement for a laptop when on-the-road. I have not missed my laptop when away from home. Then you have to get a new home Mac. The best answer is it depends. When I travel my workflow is to download the contents of the camera card to a portable HDD, and then back up the HDD. i then do rough edits on my notebook. I can't say if this is important to you, but I would check in an Apple store. Your alternative would be to walk around with a lot of cards from your camera. -- PeterN |
#53
|
|||
|
|||
Question for you Apple crazies
On 6/19/2018 2:08 AM, Savageduck wrote:
On Jun 18, 2018, Bill W wrote (in ): On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 21:39:23 -0700, Savageduck wrote: With the cellular option you can buy LTE cellular on a monthly basis, as you need it from a variety of providers, for both North America, and overseas. I wasn't aware of that, but I can also tether to my phone. Yup! That is always an option. With my old iPad2 I always used my iPhone Hotspot option. Just be wary of the AT&T offering as that can lock you up. For North America the T-Mobile option seems to be the best way to go. They have an introductory offer which is not too bad, but after that their rate climbs, but is still useful when it is needed. We have had a couple of power outages out here, and having LTE access at those times has been useful. I have a T-Mobile plan. The senior rate is fifty bucks a month, (including taxes and fees,) for unlimited service. I will most likely be getting rid of it, as their coverage sucks. Walmart sell a plan that will cost me a few bucks mor per month, and they claim to use Verizon towers. I am looking into that. Otherwise I will probably go back to Verizon. -- PeterN |
#54
|
|||
|
|||
Question for you Apple crazies
On 6/19/2018 2:01 AM, Savageduck wrote:
snip Tennessee? I have some good friends in the Nashville area including an old school pal I have known for 60 years. Then further South I have family in the Chattanooga area. The last time I was in Nashville I made the mistake of saying I liked dry rub, over wet run. IIRC Nashville is one of the few cities where the preference is about equal. Let's just say a passionate discussion broke out, and I packed up my ribs and left. -- PeterN |
#55
|
|||
|
|||
Question for you Apple crazies
On Jun 19, 2018, PeterN wrote
(in article ): On 6/19/2018 12:32 AM, Savageduck wrote: On Jun 18, 2018, Bill W wrote (in ): On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 21:27:41 -0400, PeterN wrote: On 6/15/2018 12:14 AM, Bill W wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 00:05:25 -0400, PeterN wrote: On 6/13/2018 10:08 PM, Bill W wrote: My home is paid for, and I'm moving to a place where housing is about half what it is here, so if I buy something about the same size, I might have enough left over to buy an Apple product... So some questions: Most important, is there any point in shopping around for the best price on a Macbook Pro, or is the pricing pretty much fixed? I see that there a lot of listings with years mentioned. How far back can I go to be able to dual boot into Windows? How far back to get a great retina display? And how far back to get great performance, something that is more than adequate for LR & PS, video and audio editing? How far back where I can still easily add a second high quality display? That is a fine machine. Whether you are getting one depends upon what you plan to use it for. One of my reasons for not getting one, is that I do not like a glossy screen. I find that I do not get the tonality in the darker areas with a glossy screen, that I get with a matte screen. If you plan to use it just for family type, or event pictures, it will be fine. Based on my experience with the iPhone, and iPad, Apple service has been satisfactory. The techies seem to know what they are doing. I can't say about dual boot on the portable, but I'm sure that you will get an honest and knowledgeable answer from Apple. As for price, some of the big box stores sell either reconditioned, or out of the box machines. I don't know about Apple. However, based upon my on experience I would only purchase an Apple product directly from Apple. But that's the conservative purchaser in me. Like I told Duck, I haven't so much as touched any Apple computer since the Lisa(?) many years ago. And when I shop, I don't even glance at the Apple section, so it's pretty important for me to stop in somewhere and actually look at one of these things... As I stated above, while i personally do not like the Apple notebooks, for the reasons stated, assuming similar specs, i don't think there is any substantial usability or performance difference between them, when using Photoshop. Well I finally went to a store and looked at the Apple products. I was surprised that the reflective screen did not bother me at all, so that's not an issue. Another thing that surprised me was that there appeared to be about a zero learning curve for getting around in MacOS for a strict Windows user, so that's another issue out of the way. I also looked at the iPad Pros, and now I'm seriously considering starting out with one of those. My original purpose was to get something for travel that would do everything I can do at home. The Macbook fits that bill perfectly, and it can also replace my utility computer at home, and do a lot more than that. But after a lot of research, it appears that the iPad can do just about everything I would want for travel, along with being more portable. My current tablet is used mostly as a reader, and the iPad will be a perfect replacement since it can do so much more. It also appears that you can easily do a lot of photo editing on that thing. On top of everything else, the current processor in the iPad Pro is one of the fastest you can get, tablet or desktop. Best Buy has a 10.5"/256 version for about $670. That's got my interest. Check on whether that iPad Pro is WiFi only, or WiFi+Cellular. If you are going to use it for travel it is best to have all options available. As ubiquitous as WiFi hotspots are these days, inevitably you will find yourself someplace without WiFi. Also, consider getting the 512GB edition, it is good to have the extra room. Also, get the Lightning Camera Kit which will give you an SD card reader, and a USB connection for your camera. As useful as WiFi syncing from many cameras to iPad can be, with the iPad, using the SD card reader from the Camera Kit is quicker. Also buy the Apple Pencil. It is a great input, and editing device. Then if I remember correctly you already subscribe to Adobe CC Photography plan to give you Lightroom CCC + Photoshop CC. Lightroom CC (mobile) which as a stand-alone on the iPad is free, but the full sync power is included with the Adobe CC package, that way everything you load on the iPad is synced back to your desktop/laptop. With $9.99/month Adobe CC Photography plan you get 20GB of CC storage. I opted to upgrade my storage, so for $14.99/month I get Adobe CC + 1TB of Creative Cloud storage. That more than covers my needs for any trip. So make sure that on your iPad Pro you install the free Adobe Photoshop Express, Photoshop Mix, Photoshop Mix, and Lightroom CC. Also, if you want a truly powerful photo editor on the iPad, buy Affinity Photo. All of those apps are available via the Apple iOS AppStore. The iPad Pro is a great tool, and makes a fair replacement for a laptop when on-the-road. I have not missed my laptop when away from home. Then you have to get a new home Mac. The best answer is it depends. When I travel my workflow is to download the contents of the camera card to a portable HDD, and then back up the HDD. i then do rough edits on my notebook. I can't say if this is important to you, but I would check in an Apple store. Your alternative would be to walk around with a lot of cards from your camera. When on-the-road in the past I had a triple redundant backup; 1: To my Colorspace UDMA. 2: To my laptop. 3: To a portable HDD. https://www.hypershop.com/products/hyperdrive-colorspace-udma3 Now I still have a backup to the Colorspace UDMA, but instead of the laptop and portable HDD I download RAW files to the iPad Pro and Lightroom CC. LR CC uses Adobe Smart Previews for editing, and rating on the iPad Pro, and syncs to Adobe CC storage, which for an extra $5/month is now 1TB, that makes the RAW files immediately available to my desktop where I have my home backup setup. -- Regards, Savageduck |
#56
|
|||
|
|||
Question for you Apple crazies
On Jun 19, 2018, PeterN wrote
(in article ): On 6/19/2018 2:08 AM, Savageduck wrote: On Jun 18, 2018, Bill W wrote (in ): On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 21:39:23 -0700, Savageduck wrote: With the cellular option you can buy LTE cellular on a monthly basis, as you need it from a variety of providers, for both North America, and overseas. I wasn't aware of that, but I can also tether to my phone. Yup! That is always an option. With my old iPad2 I always used my iPhone Hotspot option. Just be wary of the AT&T offering as that can lock you up. For North America the T-Mobile option seems to be the best way to go. They have an introductory offer which is not too bad, but after that their rate climbs, but is still useful when it is needed. We have had a couple of power outages out here, and having LTE access at those times has been useful. I have a T-Mobile plan. The senior rate is fifty bucks a month, (including taxes and fees,) for unlimited service. I will most likely be getting rid of it, as their coverage sucks. Walmart sell a plan that will cost me a few bucks mor per month, and they claim to use Verizon towers. I am looking into that. Otherwise I will probably go back to Verizon. For my iPhone I use Verizon, and have done since the days they were GTE, but for the iPad Pro I buy a block of T-Mobile LTE broadband as I need it, or I use my iPhone Hotspot. Otherwise both of the iOS devices connect via my home WiFi, or hotspots at hotels, or airports. -- Regards, Savageduck |
#57
|
|||
|
|||
Question for you Apple crazies
On Jun 19, 2018, PeterN wrote
(in article ): On 6/19/2018 2:01 AM, Savageduck wrote: snip Tennessee? I have some good friends in the Nashville area including an old school pal I have known for 60 years. Then further South I have family in the Chattanooga area. The last time I was in Nashville I made the mistake of saying I liked dry rub, over wet run. IIRC Nashville is one of the few cities where the preference is about equal. Let's just say a passionate discussion broke out, and I packed up my ribs and left. Barbeque is like religion, and it is decidedly regional. Out here on the Central Coast we have Santa Maria style BBQ. In San Luis Obispo, and Paso Robles we have a few places which specialize in Santa Maria style BBQ, and it is a regular at the SLO Farmers Market on Thursday evenings where the cooking is done out on the street. https://www.sunset.com/travel/california/santa-maria-bbq -- Regards, Savageduck |
#58
|
|||
|
|||
Question for you Apple crazies
In article , Bill W
wrote: Also buy the Apple Pencil. It is a great input, and editing device. Also on my list, but maybe not right away. There are many options for keyboards, so that will probably be automatic. any bluetooth keyboard will work. |
#59
|
|||
|
|||
Question for you Apple crazies
In article , PeterN
wrote: With the cellular option you can buy LTE cellular on a monthly basis, as you need it from a variety of providers, for both North America, and overseas. I wasn't aware of that, but I can also tether to my phone. Yup! That is always an option. With my old iPad2 I always used my iPhone Hotspot option. Just be wary of the AT&T offering as that can lock you up. For North America the T-Mobile option seems to be the best way to go. They have an introductory offer which is not too bad, but after that their rate climbs, but is still useful when it is needed. We have had a couple of power outages out here, and having LTE access at those times has been useful. I have a T-Mobile plan. The senior rate is fifty bucks a month, (including taxes and fees,) for unlimited service. I will most likely be getting rid of it, as their coverage sucks. Walmart sell a plan that will cost me a few bucks mor per month, and they claim to use Verizon towers. I am looking into that. Otherwise I will probably go back to Verizon. that's for a phone, not a tablet, and therefore irrelevant. tablet plans are data-only and therefore priced much less than a phone plan. they're normally month to month but some may have daily or even hourly rates. there used to be a free option from t-mobile but it's no longer available, however, those who have it can keep it. however, for phone, you're overpaying. walmart sells a t-mobile plan for $30/mo plan that's unlimited text/data and 100 voice minutes, which is also available via t-mobile if you look (it's well hidden). if you need more voice minutes, you can use voip or facetime, which use data instead of voice. t-mobile's coverage has also greatly improved over the years. only in rural areas is it weaker. there are also numerous other options. |
#60
|
|||
|
|||
Question for you Apple crazies
In article , Bill W
wrote: With the cellular option you can buy LTE cellular on a monthly basis, as you need it from a variety of providers, for both North America, and overseas. I wasn't aware of that, but I can also tether to my phone. keep in mind that the cellular version also includes a gps, which may be useful. also keep in mind that ios devices can obtain location without a gps via wifi geolocation, but that obviously will not work well while traveling, although it will update whenever it sees wifi (no need to actually join it). |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Chinese horrors. Apple suing Amazon retailer for selling fake Apple products | Savageduck[_3_] | Digital Photography | 2 | October 21st 16 09:19 AM |
Maker of ad-blocker Apple ap mysteriously withdraws it...a week before Apple launches their own | Sandman | Digital Photography | 1 | September 21st 15 06:51 AM |
Aperture future in question as Apple axes bulk of team | l e o | Digital Photography | 41 | May 10th 06 06:03 AM |