This announcement, without any details whatsoever, has been running for a few days. Are you too ill to provide a list with condition and prices?

Another good reason adding to why I dropped Nikon after preferring their hardware since the Nikon F

My factory refurb Olympus PEN-F and iMac came with the original warranty terms. They continue to operate flawlessly

It’s critically important to learn WHO dId the refurbishment. If it wasn’t Nikon (in this case), avoid it

I have several refurb devices (cameras, computer, etc) and have carefully verified who did the work. Factory-refurb devices have all proved to be reliable. They also haVe original warranties

I'm curious as to why you would offer flash cards, or anything else for that matter, at a price which is a piddling less than what anyone can purchase new with a full guarantee and return policy from B&H? Are you trawling for dumbasses?

The confusion lies in the purpose more than the implemtation. NFT is a scheme EXCLUSIVELY about proof of ownership and nothing else. A digital clone of the the object–be it physical or exclusively digital in nature–can be exhibited and reproduced the same as any other the same as any other. Digital works exists as bits of data with no physical presence unless printed/projected. Whether the rights of ownership are sold as blockchain is entirely separate from any work itself. Think of it as assignable copyright

Remember the ' collateralized debt obligations' (CDOs) that were so complex even the brokers pushing them couldn't explain them? They were the vehicles that nearly obliterated the Western economies. Now we have bitcoin and blockchain. Although blockchain can have some practical utility, the bitcoin aspect, and the obscenely energy-intensive 'mining' for bitcoin operations, ring just as inevitably fraudulent

NFT's are just another scheme about OWNERSHIP. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the creation of artworks, the majority of which are already just collateralized bullshit to begin with

Thanks for that. Really enjoyed it and will look up more

Lynda.com offers well-produced tutorials for Photoship, starting from rank beginner and continuing on to highly-advanced technique. They are priced within anyone's budget, and be repeated as many times as needed.

I do. I have the latest iMac i5, 3.8 Ghz, 27" with Radeon Pro 580 graphics card, Internal 2TB Fusion drive.

I'm running 40GB of RAM, No stalling.

Your configuration is more than enough, that's not the problem. An iMac Pro for Photoshop use is like buying a Porche roadster for tooling around suburbia. System slowdowns of that nature naturally occur with over-the-hill systems, but yours being one year old, it's not even close to that stage (4-6 years old). A hardware malfunction would usually cause a lot worse than just slow Photoshop. The problem is likely in one or more of the following:
1) The Mac OS
2) Photoshop preferences
3) A faulty Photoshop install.

The most obvious first step is removing the Photoshop 'Preferences Folder' from your User Library, and placing it on your desktop. Photoshop must be closed for this procedure. Startup Photoshop and see if it's operating at expected speed. If it's improved, redo your preferences, nd toss out the old folder. If no improvement…

Run Disk First Aid from your Utility partition (Starting up your machine holding 'CMD' R). Run Disk First Aid. Then, quitting Utilities, restart the system doing a PRAM reset (starting up the system holding down 'CMD' 'OPTION' PR through 3 startups and then letting the keys go to startup normally. After these operations, if the problem remains, then a reinstall of Photoshop would be a worthwhile step.

Still slow? Reinstall the MacOS. You won't lose your settings.

If none of this eliminates the slowdown, other than doing a format and clean install, you'll have to consider the possibility of a hardware malfunction, but that really isn't likely on a relatively new computer. On my 3 year old MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM and a 500GB SSD, I regularly toss around 500GB -2TB files like they were paper dolls.

'Manual' is how most older photographers learned the physics and craft of exposing for effect. When 'Programmed mode arrived on Nikons, my training in manual allowed me to effectively adopt it into my shooting strategy. It worked! If I don't have specific depth of field and/or motion elements which are central to the shot, Program Mode is excellent. Aperture or Speed priority Mode provide better fine tuning, and are usually just as rapid (all of these modes are quickly modified with the compensation function. For the non-obsessive.

For the obsessive or nostalgia-prone user, 'Manual' is god, the same as vinyl is god for obsessive music appreciation (until it rapidly deteriorates and scratches, it does have a wider spectrum for some music). That film is inherently superior to digital is another fantasy trope, although I would say: film IS superior to digital for users who are incompetent in Photoshop and/or Lightroom and/or CaptureOne. I slowly poisoned myself and demolished my plumbing after decades of processing film and prints. I DO NOT miss it. To my eye, modern archival prints, when matched on one of the myriad of magnificent dye/ink papers far surpass any photographic papers that were available, are obviously superior. No doubt for some, Daguerreotype is superior to film, and on and on.

I say! A tablet you say? Well, for all of you peons forced to indulge in such technicalities my deepest regrets. I, on the other hand, being of REAL means, am always accompanied by my man servant Rigby. Should I need to make a menu change, I simply hand my 7500 to him and command him to make whatever change I desire ("Rigby, my good man, would you be so kind as to change the bracketing parameters?") for instance. Problem solved.

Of course, for you chaps too cheap to hire your own man servant, I suppose referring to a paper manual layed out in a fashion you're comfortable with will do. Or even one of those clumsy tablets for those who don't mind adding to the pile of costly technology everyone is expected to accept. of course, if I need more technology, Rigby carries it all. No problem!

Well-stated and, from my POV, a very comprehensive appraisal.

What's being ignored here is the primary difference between using a Windows machine or a Mac: the OS. I started with mainframe computers, then to PCs, and then, to my astonishment and delight, to the Mac. Suddenly, computing was simplified and intuitive. Windows is everything Gates managed to steal from Apple, hobbled together from MS-DOS. Macs cost more.

There's nothing you can do on a Mac that you can't do on a Windows machine, albeit with several more clutzy steps. How much is your time, and less frustration worth to you?