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whm1974 wrote:
I was unaware that Skylake based laptops were even out yet.

It looks like they start shipping October 1.

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I am looking for a mobile workstation quality laptop. i tend to be that guy that has everything open on my computer at once. most of the docs we get from outside clients are scanned pdf's so docs quickly grow to 100+. On the side i do corporate photography of events processing raw images off my niko...

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my understanding on the subject is laser jets are cheaper and more efficient for printing. the only reason to buy an inkjet these days is to print photography or art. while laser jets can keep up on detail they fall apart on fine color reproduction. i have an epson photo printer and use cone inks fr...

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one of my concerns about going to something smaller like a 24 or 27 is that i have to read a lot of scanned docs for work. that was why i was even considering a tv as a monitor. does any have experience putting together a monitor combo for reading a lot of scanned docs? some are so bad OCR is not re...

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So it might be new monitor time. For the last ten years I have been using two 19” 1280*1024 LCD monitors. About five years ago I added a 27” 1080 monitor giving me three monitors. Now one of the 19’s is dying and I want to re-evaluate my options. I use the 27 for gaming and Nikon Capture NX2/Photosh...

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i called your number and repeatedly put my credit card number, DOB and social security number in as prompted but i found your horoscopes to barely meet the standards of the NYT. i am going to have to rate your services at 3.5 stars and you should consider yourself lucky at that.

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i an not a mac person so i was looking at the lenovo w540. it comes with either a 1080 or a 2880*1660 res screen and a build in color sensor but you are looking at $1,400. i process raw files from a d600 (24mp) on an old laptop with 16gb of memory and an ssd but that is more $$$. add a few layers or...

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Handheld, 24mm f/2.8 1/8 ISO10000 That is impressive for handheld. of course you would need f1.4 on a fifty to get the same control. Having a d600, it is amazing what we can do in high iso that we couldnt do just a few short years ago. my d80 was useless over iso400 and i remember how bad the grain...

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Speed man, speed. The sheer lack of which in the original 4/3 format means my daughter has a "school camera" and I need to find something else with speed. A 50/1.4 is not that fast... that is, you can pick up a manual focus 50/1.4 for $100 or less. i have to disagree. you need a 1.4 (35, ...

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i love my camera bag insert http://www.amazon.com/BBP-DSLR-Camera-Insert-Make/dp/B0047P0QLC/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1395772608&sr=1-2&keywords=camera+bag+insert . it's $20 and i drop in my messenger bag as needed. i switch between a nice Chrome bag http://www.chromeindus...

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I like Knob Creek as a cheap (sub $20) staple bourbon. It has good bang for the buck. for a few dollars more i like wild turkey single barrel (or rare bread- i forget which is which). i hate makers mark but that is personal taste. scotch it harder. You need to stay with single malts of at least ten ...

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i know i am seeing 120 mbs write speeds. Thats what see from my single WD greens. You could add more drives to your RAID 1 array to improve performance but from what I read that is up to the controller and not all controllers offer that performance increase. The more immediate concern is the 30 sec...

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How much are your "work" images and how much are your other stuff that you could not care less (movies and music)? I would say buy a separate drive, move those off to the new drive, and stay with your current setup. You probably want to do serious work on the SSDs anyway. This new drive c...

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i guess the other question is how raid-able is a WD black drive? i have read reports that the black drives will fail in anything more complicated than a mirror (i.e. stripe) or should i go to the constellation drives and not look back? and it sounds like a 3 disk raid 5 with 3 constellation drives i...

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Have you figured out approximately how many MB/sec you're getting on the existing RAID-1? At the end of the day, unless you're running software RAID-5 or -6 (which can be limited by CPU speed), you're probably being bottlenecked by the transfer rate of the hard drives themselves, so a $150 RAID car...

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i currently have a 240 gb SSD for my boot drive and programs. i am running win7 64 pro. i use two 2tb WD caviar black hard drives in a raid 1 for storage. i store music, movies and my photos from my nikon d600 on the raid and then backup the music and photo's to carbonite. my raid is starting to fil...

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i have the 5s and my wife has the 5. i find the 5s is faster, even internet. i know it is the same LTE signal. it just feels like my phone searches and renders must faster. of course her phone is over a year old so a fresh 5 might be faster than her phone.

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Seriously, every site you go to (even if you don't fully trust DxOMark, like me) shows the Tamron 24-70/2.8 VC as superior to the Nikon 24-70/2.8 II, and very close to the world-beating Canon 24-70/2.8 II. And that's just optically- it also has a very good implementation of stabilization. the tamro...

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sorry. it looks like the code doesnt work anymore. it worked when i tested it a few nights ago for someone else. it might be worth calling because the camera comes up on the short list from the link. DXO does a lot of lens reviews. the problem is they are lab centered and do not take into account re...

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Thanks everyone for the replies. No US warranty is my deciding factor against. I have to look somewhere else. Newegg is my favorite retailer to purchase PC components so I looked for the "just over $2000" deal mentioned by hiro_pro but could not find it at their website. Is it $2400 with ...

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That is for an "Import Model" (see the yellow "what's in the box" button). No US warranty. It makes no mention of there being a EN-EL15 Lithium Battery in the box. All they say is "Lithium-ion Battery". you can get an en-el15 battery or two for $60 each. the if it is i...

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there was some discussion about this store on dpreview. some say it is a bait & switch shop (i.e. this model doesn't come with a battery or they kept the kit lens). some say they dont bother telling you if stuff isnt in stock. others say they got their stuff. for that price i might pay my money ...

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thanks all for the responses. i downloaded office 365 for $80 (thank you academic license). that was my first attempt at using a mac so it took me longer than i thought. right now she uses gmail so i dont have to worry abut exchange. it only took her about an hour to download her inbox... it seems l...

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flip-mode wrote:
Rockwell loves this lens for whatever that is worth.

i never have trusted Ren Kockwell. he says some strange $h!+. and his name makes him sound like a porn star.

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http://www.photozone.de/canon-eos/307-sigma-af-10-20mm-f4-56-hsm-ex-dc-lab-test-report--review for what it's worth i always start with photozone.de. they seem to better real world lens reviews than dxo. http://www.fredmiranda.com/reviews/ also has a good database of reviews including user feedback. ...

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If nothing but 100% compatibility will do, the only solution is to run the latest version of Office for Windows under VMware Fusion or Parallels Desktop. perhaps a stupid question but do i need a copy of windows installed on the laptop to run VMware Fusion or Parallels Desktop? that sounds like a l...

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my wife has gone to the dark side. she just got of those new macbook air laptop for school and clinicals. i know she needs office for word, excel and powerpoint. it looks like i have two choice. i can get office 365 for 4 years or mac office 2011 which is mine. i have heard that office for mac 2014 ...

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i have to review a lot of large scanned documents at work. it is typical for me to review a 250 scanned pdf of a legal filing. i got sick of reviewing it on my laptop so i plugged in a 32 LCD TV using a vga cable so i could read two pages at a time. i set the resolution to 1080 on my lenovo t420. i ...

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Work's gotten a bunch of these and they're pretty good: http://www.amazon.com/Fujitsu-ScanSnap-600DPI-Mobile-Scanner-PA03610-B005/dp/B004ISGG7Q Thanks bthylafh. i would never have thought about those fuji scanners. i really like the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i. it seems like it might be a tad faster an...

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does anyone have a recommendation on a fast cheap scanner? by cheap i just mean less than $200. i know i can get a fast document when budget is not an issue. i dont need anything too fancy. i just need a way to get documents onto my computer. i would prefer something that lets me save multi-page PDF...

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