Switching Platforms

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

You can select an Icon from their choices, but - as far as I've been able to tell - you cannot select a photo.


Anyway, the Dell XPS One is ultra super SEXAY!!! I get the kind of future feel I finally felt when I got my first iPhone, and that "Where's My Jet-pack/Flying car?" feeling is again stroked to satisfaction.

I don't see what the problem is with Windows 8. I played with it for a long time, and it's completely rad and intuitive. You can always switch back to Desktop mode if you want, but the regular version works as well with a keyboard and mouse as with touch. (But touch use is tres futuristic.)

The high-res, 27-inch screen is gorgeous. It's got a stand that swivels down to 60-degrees flat - - so what with the JJ StarTrek-looking interface, the MinorityReport touch control, and the near flat tilt function ... I seriously feel like I'm piloting a freaking star ship. It's rad.


BUT - the screen is super-duper glossy and reflective. As I'd been warned, this is NOT good for photo-editing - which is a lot of what I do, and sometimes (as in the current time) about 80% of what I do.



So I walked on over to the Apple Store, and their 27" high-res iMac beauty is non-reflective and polarizes to the ambient light in its setting. Drool. There's practically no tilt to the screen - but in truth, I'd likely only operate the computer by touch, and still do all my actual work within software apps with the mouse of old.

So - I'm back to considering an iMac with an external optical drive. Oddly enough, the Dell beats the Apple in terms of SEXAY (except of course, the Apple icon at the screen bottom is way sexier as a detail than the Dell name).


I will ponder more ... but I think these are the two finalists. PRICEY.

And you can run a virtual PC inside a Mac but not the other way round.

[lashbear]

Originally Posted by What Moonliner Said

Note: I said "similar". While I have heard positive things about Drobo that's not what I have. I have a 5-Disk Raid tower configured in RAID-5 attached to my Windows Server via e-Sata.

Originally Posted by What I Heard

Note: I said "similar". While I have heard positive things about gak gak, I have a gak gak gak, gak Windows gak GAK GAK.

Yes, there is no hope.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by lashbear

Yes, there is no hope.

I have a thingy that let's me store up to 200 Blu-ray movies and watch them on demand whenever I want.

[lashbear]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

I have a thingy that let's me store up to 200 Blu-ray movies and watch them on demand whenever I want.

Now THAT I understand.