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Subject: Re: [OM] Selphie sticks and x100T images was Re: Nathan's PAD 3/5/2015: two Toledo vignettes
From: SwissPace <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 19:52:25 +0200
Hi Chris, I think only in the "mac" world (and maybe only Switzerland) would anyone buy 4 or 5 year old computer, but the older mac pros are incredibly built and so expandable. I paid the price of a new mac mini to get something with much better performance and although I will spend that much again on new CPUs, graphic card and a PCIe SSD card it should keep me going for quite a while and be not far behind a new top line machine in performance but costing me a lot less to build

As to card flashing, this basically involves installing different "firmware" on a card designed to be installed in a PC but one that will work in a MAC however to get full functionality it needs hacked firmware - I am not sure why the verb flash is used but I guess because its over in a flash.

IanW


On 08/05/15 19:29, ChrisB wrote:
What sort of process is �flashing a graphic card�, Ian?  But yes, I�m envious 
of your new machine :-)

Chris

On 8 May 15, at 09:36, SwissPace <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You are correct - I have been mistaken in my understaning of the meaning of 
spendthrift until now and should have used miserly.  I fell into the trap of 
making an assumption, I expect that's not the only new thing I learn today, 
later I will be flashing a new graphic card for my newer mac pro :-)

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