river251

Why is your suggested solution any more secure than a 12 terabyte Western digital external?

Bugs

At least on mine, built in Intel (2020 Latest Business Laptop Dell Inspiron 17 7000 2-in-1 Laptop 17.3" QHD Touch-Screen 11th Gen Intel Core i7-1165G7 32G Ram 1TB SSD GeForce MX350) Iris XE doesn't function.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Turn your monitor brightness way down. Mine is well under 50%. When calibrated, it’s between 85 and 120 cd/m^2. (When properly calibrated and profiled, your prints should be a close match to your monitor.)

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Yeah, but it’s a MacBook Pro, not a PowerBook, and it has video editing workstation power if you spent four grand on it.

Dean37 Loc: Fresno, CA

Of course I started with a RAMAC IBM which had 64k RAM and the first Winchester 30/30 hard drives.

Progressed years later to an Osborne 1 and the CP/M OS, the First Osborne Group (FOG) got the FOG Osborne 1 adapted to a 5 Megabyte hard drive. It worked with DOS 1, but not DOS 2 and worked fine with CP/M. The genius of Dr Gary Kildall's CP/M was the basis for the development of DOS.

What we didn't know at the time was that UNIX was the OS we should have concentrated on. It was written in "C" which was designed to run in UNIX. Chicken or Egg?

Along comes Linus Torvalds who designed the kernel for Linux (Linus UNIX), and now the world can use Linux which uses almost all UNIX commands as written.

So Apples latest OS is Linux, Windows is mostly Linux, most servers in the world are Linux, Google is Linux.

We now are living in a Linux world.

I ask that everybody forgive me, but I had to get that out of my system.

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

You can check your connection speed at speedtest.net

johnk4007 Loc: Sydney Australia

Thanks, JerryC for the good information. I am about to set up a new PC. I have a large desk/table to set things on and that has to be assembled too. Now that we're coming out of lockdown I'm going to get help with the PC and desk set-ups. Geeks to You for the PC, and Air Tasker for the desk.

I bought an AMD-based PC, a Ryzen 9 with 16 cores and 32 threads. 64GB of RAM, 3090 graphics card with 24GB of video RAM on the card, 2 x SSD's, and an open-loop liquid cooling system. All this feeding into a 491/2 inch curved Samsung Odyssey monitor. Along with my developing photography interest, I have a flight simulator and car racing simulator setup. An instrument panel for general aviation flight (Cessna types), and switching panels, add to the setup.

The PC specification is right up there so speed and functionality will not be constrained. Adobe workflow, or others, should be smooth.

I retired this year and I can assure you that GAS is working well. I had intended that my wife and I would share the joy of all this together. Me doing with her watching as Carol has never been on a computer in her life. Unfortunately, my wife of 52 years passed away 5 weeks ago and my motivation has waned a lot. Of course, sadness will pass and new things will steadily begin again. I've been caring for my wife for the past six years in her battle with cancer, and COVID in the end. So I'm very new to photography. I do have a reasonable audio setup with a Scarlett 2i4 for audio capture, a desktop mixer unit, Rode and Audio Technica microphones, output to a pair of PBL 8" studio monitors, and a set of Mobius Audeze headphones.

I'm a Nikon D500 owner and I have started a free online photography course. It's part of a veterans support package, along with Mindfulness and Meditation all started this week. Next week it's out and about with the camera taking photos and learning to use the camera.

GAS has given me the technology, and my loss is the motivation to use the technical gear to fill some of the voids. No doubt UHH is the place for more learning. No there won't be a mirrorless camera to change my life or a Canon for that matter.

Thank you for allowing me to share.

Happy snapping!

maggiemae Loc: North Carolina

I'm sorry for the loss of your wife.

johnk4007 Loc: Sydney Australia

Thank you MaggieMae.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Sorry for your loss... 52 years! Wow. That's remarkable.

I do have to share that in my darkest hours, the two things that have always kept me sane, motivated, focused, and determined are all things photography, and listening to excellent music. Best of luck. And yes, get out there.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Sorry to hear about your wife. Not to denigrate your grief, but life goes on. My wife died 3 weeks short of our 50th. Two years later I got a new wife. (I was not looking for a new wife but life filled in the blanks even though I made all sorts of mistakes in the process). I have not forgotten the previous one, but I have new avenues to travel now. Hope you can recover similarly. Hang in there.

jdubu Loc: San Jose, CA

With everything going on in this world, it all pales against the loss of loved ones in our lives. My condolences to your wife's passing.