Recent content by pidb

I have a setup along those lines, but it does require a certain standardisation which may become obvious: Mac G5 and MacBook Pro with shared iTunes libraries, Airport wireless network, Airport Express with speakers connected via the audio jack. Plug the Express in where you want the music...

iPhoto will do all this for you - and it is part of OS X. The only thing you have to do is accept that it will do the organisation for you and go along with this - you are able to create what iPhoto calls Albums to group related images together, as by default it groups images by Events, which...

With the sharing capabilities built into OS X you could use the iMac as your main storage machine, and use the MBP to access your images/music/files via the Finder. I do this with my machines (G5 and MBP), as sometimes I do need the larger screen of the G5, whereas the MBP is much quicker when...

Not quite what you were after, but the nearest I got to this was loading RAW images into iPhoto; USB2 was sloooooooooooooow ... Firewire 800 using a reader was noticably quicker, so running an external drive via USB2 will be pretty slow. You might be better off investing in an external...

MacBook Pro does the job for me !

It's not really worth the bother as the machine itself cannot be upgraded except as has been mentioned above, and the G3 processor cannot run the latest version of OS X. One thing which can be said for it is that you can use it to get to grips with OS X and the iLife stuff - specifically iPhoto...

Agree with grumpybadger - there isn't really any point in changing just because of peer pressure. The same could be said about your DSLR if you think about it. Working in the IT game, I tend to stick to the tried and tested adage of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it!", which also applies here.

I have a G5 which has iPhoto and Aperture, as well as CS3, and runs perfectly well. The only complaint I have is that loading RAW images from the D200 does seem to take a bit longer than it did from the D70 ... !