Completely agree, I shoot to print!

I am doing the same right now and I want the following features, usb-c monitor capable of power as well as data. I want the monitor to have extra ports so that it can do double duty as a hub.

Do you print? If you do then the adobe rgb is important, I want 98 or 99%. The way I understand it the dci=p3 is more video than printing, if you want your prints to match your monitor to the print the adobe rgb is the colour space you want.

And then do you want 4K or is 2k fine. I am down to three monitors at the moment, the Benq sw271c, the Benq sw321c or the Dell UP2720Q. I am leaning to the Benq sw321c.

Comes with a great hood, is usb-c that supplies 60 watts of charging power, has additional ports, supports Benq’s new paper colour sync software. 32 inch monitor gives me a little more real estate to play with.

All of the monitors on my short list are 4K, professional quality monitors that while expensive are nowhere near the price of eizo monitors.

I already have a benq sw2700pt that is a great monitor just doesn’t have usb-c connection. I like the Benq hardware calibration as well with their palette master software. This monitor is 4 years old and still near perfect colour and operation

So that is where I am at right now, haven’t made a purchase yet

Personally, I think this is a wise choice on your part, the new iMacs will probably be released in six months and will be worth the wait. I waited and waited for a new MacBook Pro and got the 14 inch with the M1 Pro processor. I am very pleased. It replaced my 2010 (sorry Capt Dave, it lasted much longer than your seven year estimate and is still running) MacBook Pro. I am now setting it up with a couple of 27 inch monitors (Benq) and a dock on my desk for when I am home. Only one LR catalog to worry about from here on. Doing an upgrade on my wireless in my house with new access points to enjoy wired speeds but without wire everywhere in the house.

This is replacing my 2015 iMac 27in as well. It is moving to my daughters house and will give her a few years of joy.

I am enjoying my new MacBook Pro and am glad I waited to get what I wanted.

I hope you get what you want.

Very interesting, I visited the Glengoyne distillery outside of Glasgow in 2019 and they did some in the sherry casks and some in American oak, the difference in colour and smoothness was very evident. Canadian distillers used to sell the barrels after they were finished with them (rum and rye whiskey) whole. People bought them up and put 16 to 20 litres of distilled water in them and turned them a quarter turn each day for nine weeks and then strained the results through a coffee filter. It was called swish and was actually quite impressive. The government then demanded they cut the barrels in half as they were losing too many tax dollars on booze sales.

Good morning Dave

I have read your post and fully understand that everything is on your internal 8 tb drive. But I still have a question, you copied all of the photos into the directory tree that you define and like, that sounds great.

When you are importing them into Lightroom are you adding them from your files or do you have copy selected in which case Lightroom is copying the files from one place on your drive to another.

If you are just adding the files to LR with a keyword this should be extremely fast, if you are copying them to LR then you would be creating your own bottleneck on your drive as it would be busy reading and writing on the same drive.

If you are adding the files and it is taking that long, time to contact Apple and have that machine checked out.

I have the M1 Pro chip with 16gb of memory and a one TB drive and have not experienced any of the issues you are having.

Good luck in figuring it out, I understand your frustrations as your expectations of that computer are reasonable. It should be a very fast computer.

Sorry, can't help, busy with mine here.

[quote=Gene51]45 usually, 85 a little less frequently but up to 300mm on occasion. Prime/zoom doesn't matter. I almost never use anything shorter than 45mm - too much distortion (corners, edges) for panos.

absolutely beautiful work Gene, certainly an inspiration for me!

LOL, me the opposite I love it when the screen shows the rain icon and it is sunny at my house.


have a good one!

Just read your post Dave and WOW, fantastic news that you beaten your cancer. And a full blown maxed out MacBook Pro. Congrats and continue to enjoy life. Once those photos are on your internal drive you'll be able to scroll through them like a movie.

Watched jungle cruise with the wife and grandkids, we all liked it and laughed a lot.

I couldn’t agree more, if I see Cage is in it I just move on.

Only ten it is just a youngster, we have a 2007 24 in iMac that did have the hard drive replaced about 6 years ago. It’s job now is running 24/7 with all the music and movies on it that are then streamed to Apple TV boxes and or Bose SoundTouch speakers. While it is doing that my wife may use it to run an old legacy genealogy software or look something up on the internet if her other two Macs are busy. Built like a tank and still going strong.

Seriously, if the software level it is at runs all the applications you need or want you should be good for sometime yet. This is our experience below;

2007 iMac 24inch. Still running
2010 MacBook Pro. Still running
2011 MacBook Pro. Runs but dying had cup of coffee spilled into its keyboard
2015 iMac 27 in 2tb fusion drive had to be replaced, replaced with external 1tb ssd
2015 iMac 27 in. Still running, wife’s desktop
2017 MacBook Pro 13 in. Still perfect, wife’s laptop, personally I think it is abused but it is like new
2021 MacBook Pro 14 inch M1pro. My newest, love it, screaming fast and fantastic battery endurance
2018 Asus windows 10. Runs fine, only used for quick books, no Canadian tax version for Mac and so I just keep it separate.
2014 HP Windows desktop. Dead as a door nail
2010 HP Windows desktop fried in a lightning storm, doa
2009 Toshiba laptop, so clunky and weird keyboard, gave it away in one year and bought the first MacBook Pro in the list above.

Prior to 2007 a litany of various windows or DOS desktops from the first one I built in 1984, all long dead but we had lots of fun with them.

And just for fun, writing this post on a 2019 iPad Pro 12.9 inch

LOL Gene, to be fair, there are always many reports from both windows and Mac OS' problems when people are upgrading. Myself, I have had no problems with any of my computers upgrades either.

I have had both PC's and Mac's that would no longer upgrade due to their hardware limitations. Sounds like you had a great motherboard to start off and were wise enough in your original build not to solder in the CPU and the I7 had the same pin configuration. My old PC didn't pass the windows 10 specs and would not upgrade so I replaced it(in my case the cheapest and most prudent option at the time) my 2010 MacBook Pro does not take upgrades to the new Mac OS but it still works and still runs LR and PS just not all their new features. I am now retiring it and have replaced it with a new MacBook Pro that I expect will do me another ten years. Not sure if I will sell or just strip the ssd out of it and send it to the junk pile.

Some people have more problems with upgrades than others, I just hope I continue to have the same experience that I have had in past years and that the only time an upgrade doesn't work is because my old hardware is just not compatible.

And no my Macs are not perfect in every way, just better than PC's.

I have a late 2015 iMac with 32gb memory that had a 2tb fusion drive that I replaced as the drive was my problem. I had a shop put in a 1tb ssd but sadly that one was still intermittent so I suspect the controller. I got another 1 tb ssd and copied everything onto it and made it a boot drive, it is connected by the USB port on the back of the iMac. Certainly not the fastest as a thunderbolt connection would be quicker but couldn't find the dock with the right thunderbolt connector.

I have upgraded my system to Monterey, my Lightroom is running with no slowdowns. I just bought the 14 inch MacBook Pro with the M1 Pro processor and 16gb of memory and 1tb ssd and yes side by side tests it is much faster than the my iMac but the iMac really isn't that much slower handling anything in Lightroom.

All that to say, you might want to upgrade to Monterey, some packages seem to run quicker with it.

My Lightroom is set to 5gb in the performance, I have not turned on use smart previews and I didn't optimize my catalog.

Hopefully those things help with yours but I still suspect your fusion drive is the culprit.

hi, I attach cable from phone to computer then open Lightroom and just select the phone in the import area and Lightroom does the rest. and I add the keyword "iPhone" and anything else if special