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Subject: Re: [OM] Selphie sticks and x100T images was Re: Nathan's PAD 3/5/2015: two Toledo vignettes
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 06:53:51 +0100
That’s an idea, Ian.  When my current iMac gives up the ghost, assuming that it 
will, I’ll consider a Mac Pro that’s on sale now for more than £2,000.  There 
are bound to be many upgrade options available then.

Chris

> On 8 May 15, at 18:52, SwissPace <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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.

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