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 08/19/2008 03:22:58 PM · #26
I love reading your mac tips and hints Shannon. Thanks, they are always so useful.

Originally posted by scalvert:
Congrats! I have the same iMac and iPod (albeit with double the memory on each). One thing to note is that the iMac monitor is actually TOO bright. You'll need to turn the brightness all the way down AND install something like Shades to dim it further for accurate color calibration.
08/19/2008 09:16:57 PM · #27
Originally posted by scalvert:
Congrats! I have the same iMac and iPod (albeit with double the memory on each). One thing to note is that the iMac monitor is actually TOO bright. You'll need to turn the brightness all the way down AND install something like Shades to dim it further for accurate color calibration.

The monitor is amazing. I thought there was something wrong with the old PC's monitor when I booted it to copy files! I have to calibrate it properly, but already I'm seeing photos (including my own photos) in a new light. The colour vibrancy, depth, tone, and contrast is superb.

I've been playing with OSX for 8 hours straight now and all I'm asking myself is 'where have you been all my life?' - It's snappy, perfectly intuitive, and there's no messing about with configurations. All the iLife apps are great fun (trying out iMovie at the moment, and it's excellent) - I just copied 8,500 photos and a few hours of video across from the old PC and they imported no problem.

I'm not much of an mp3/iPod person; but I can't put the iPod Touch down! I was sitting back playing with the interface, loaded up a few songs and photos.... it's just another example of perfect design. Everything integrates and synchronises with everything else. All I get asked for is my username and passwords, it detects wi-fi and connects, it does the synch with iTunes, the lot.

I'm getting worried though; I'm not used to going this long without at least a BSOD. When does it start going wrong? ;-)

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 08/19/2008 09:37:38 PM · #28
Originally posted by scalvert:
Congrats! I have the same iMac and iPod (albeit with double the memory on each). One thing to note is that the iMac monitor is actually TOO bright. You'll need to turn the brightness all the way down AND install something like Shades to dim it further for accurate color calibration.


I agree with Shannon about the brightness, although I run mine at 50% brightness. Shannon, why Shades? What advantage do you gain over the standard keyboard control?

To the OP: Aperture will bog down eventually (max out that RAM), particularly when you start using the adjustments panel. Otherwise, I love it. I have an iMac 2.4ghz with 4GB of RAM. I use Spaces (highly recommended), and have Firefox, Aperture2, and CS3 assigned to their own space and always open. I have yet to have any major slow downs. I do notice some performance drop when I'm backing up the Vault or running Time Machine, so I do both manually now.

Look into the Aperture plug-ins.

Inside Aperture is fantastic, and I think it has lots of great tips and podcasts. Clearly biased, but that does not bother me.
 08/20/2008 10:21:31 AM · #29
Glad you're enjoying you iMac!
I love my little Macbook. It's fantastic and kicks butt on PC.
You know what they say, "Once you go Mac, you never go back."
 08/20/2008 10:55:26 AM · #30
Originally posted by bspurgeon:
Shannon, why Shades? What advantage do you gain over the standard keyboard control?

The keyboard control is limited, and the monitor was still too bright for calibration even at the lowest setting. Shades can take a monitor all the way to black.
 08/20/2008 11:17:55 AM · #31
As an aside about the Mighty mouse it comes with, though it appears to only be a one-button mouse, it actually has separate right and left switches, so you can right- and left- click on it like a normal two-button mouse: you just need to change the preferences under the system menu. I don't know why Apple doesn't set this up as default.
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