Posts by Gene Clean

The Invention of Solitude, Auster Life of Pi, Martel A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Eggers. I'm kind of busy with these three right now.. Auster being my favorite, and Martel a close second. Eggers is not bad either.

Quote: Originally Posted by gregmightdothat It does tell it all. 280 MB? Oh god, that's really making a dent in your RAM That's too much for an app that's just sitting idly. Did you notice any editing on the pic? That's right, you...

Quote: Originally Posted by Chucker It's taste, not "bullshit". Fair enough. But, as with almost everything else; taste is relative.

Quote: Originally Posted by kim kap sol Let's put it this way, Gene, if Quake 4 isn't super fast on your machine...neither will Aperture. There's a limit to what a GPU-bound app can do. It's like trying to run a car off vodka...it might...

Quote: Originally Posted by Timmmy The problem with Firefox is that it's not a real Mac app. It doesn't integrate with the OS features that contribute to the Macs ease of use. I use Services extensively when I am browsing, and I also...

Quote: Originally Posted by gregmightdothat Is navigating rapidly through every single picture of those 15,000 pictures something you consider typical use? Yes, because in order to edit that image, I first need to find it....

(Assuming that what you say is accurate...), since when are launch speeds indicative of overall speed? OO takes longer to launch, but once it launches, it is fast. Try running XP and Word 2003 inside Parallels with 384MB of RAM with...

Quote: Originally Posted by Hobbes On a quad-core Mac Pro? Aperture isn't Ghz-bound, it's RAM-bound and hungry. 1GB of RAM with Aperture is not enough. It's the bare minimum according to Apple. gregmightdothat: Quote: Aperture...

Quote: Originally Posted by Frank777 Since Chavez is a big part of this thread, it's only fair to bring in Pat Robertson as well. When good 'ole Pat was running for President he proposed that the West form a new body called, IIRC, The...

dp - sorry.