Sorry about the long absence

I bought a new desktop running 64 bit Windows 7 Pro with a quad-core processor and 16GB RAM.

 Our old laptop was close to giving up the ghost so we bought a 64 bit machine running the same operating system with 8GB RAM.

I will probably be adding another small laptop to take along on trips and for word processing.


Now, the reason for the much faster desktop is that I use Photoshop and have recently upgraded that to PS5. Some of the new features like content-aware editing require a lot of RAM and processing power. With the new computer Photoshop flies!


Migrating from XP to Windows 7 was a breeze using a USB cable. Belkin has a cheap cable/software package that works great for migrating from one machine to another.


I'm still having problems with some of the Photoshop plug-ins and add-ons. Some don't like to work on 64 bit systems. However, my main filters, actions and plug-ins work just fine so I have time to iron out the rest of the problems.


I could never run Apple's I-tunes software on my old machine. The two just never got along, which proves Apple writes crap software. I need that to update my Ipod. Well, the crap software will only let you run on one computer, so I still have to use Lila's laptop for this purpose. There is no way, no way at all that I will consider getting an Ipad because of the need to have a real computer handy for updating and so on. For about the same amount of money or less I can get a XP machine and be done with it. Apple really sucks and is only loved by those that don't do much work on their computers.


More later. . .

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