

Canon software for EOS camera's as well as Printer software)Ĭore i5 2.4Ghz. Running: OS-X Snow Leopard, Adobe Creative Suite CS5 Extended, Adobe Lightroom 3, VmWare Fusion w/ Windows 7 Ultimate, Apple iWork, Firefox, FileZilla, TweetDeck, Google Earth, PhotoLinker, Skype, TechTool Deluxe, Canon Digital Photo Professional ( and other misc. Vantec NexStar3 External Hard Drive Enclosure.Ģ x Western Digital Studio Edition 500GB External Hard DriveĪpple Wireless Keyboard, Magic Trackpad and Magic Mouse NewerTech MAXPower 6G PCIe eSATA RAID Card NEC 30" LCD3090WQXi-BK LCD Monitor & SpectraView Calibration Software Besides, if I really need to run Windows I have Windows 7 Ultimate running in side a VMWare virtual machine.Ģx50GB OWC Mercury Extreme Pro RE Solid State Drives ( SSD)Ĥx 2TB Western Digital Caviar Black Hard Drives

there is a bit of a learning curve and somethings are kind of annoying, but overall it's been wonderful and the most enjoyable computing experience of my life. I've been half switched for a bit more than three months and so far it's been fantastic. Additionally I wanted something that was simpler and doesn't result in me having to rebuild the system once a year or so because of something silly happening.

I want something that is simple, powerful and is best geared for photography. some of their newest offerings are darn impressive. 15 years, and Microsoft has come a long way. On Switching to Mac: I've been a Microsoft user since MS-DOS 3.3 and have worked professionally as a server engineer and systems designer for Microsoft Servers for approx. Aside from the Mac Pro which is lighting fast, the real treat is seeing images on the amazingly accurate and sharp 30" NEC display, this monitor is quite a bit above and beyond the Apple Cinema Display ( as well as the Dell and HP offerings). It's wonderful to edit with this hardware and setup. This is just a fantastic setup for doing just about any photographic related computer task one could think of. They are networked together by an HP ProCurve 8 port gigabit ethernet switch, with a Linksys WRT54GS running Tomato and functioning as a dedicated firewall and router and an Airport Extreme serving up wireless internet access. will be interesting to see if the power bill drops).Ĭlick Here to see a close up version of what's on my desk.īasically I have two computers, a desktop, laptop and a third machine functioning as a storage server. now I'm an Apple convert and my home setup is much simpler ( it's amazing the cabling that was pulled out, and how quiet things are. Well it's been five years and I just retired most of what I was using. Almost exactly five years ago I took another photo of what my desk looked like and what kinds of technology I was using at home.

This is my side of our home office ( best viewed - large).
