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never heard of that but I bet my husband has!

With a vintage trs-80  

But I'm totally broke now, you'll be eating ramen noodles three times a day if I adopt you.

Well, you're also very good at getting a million-dollar smile out of my sullen, newly-minted teen.... worth every penny! Thanks again

Thanks Brian! I appreciate you taking the time to respond even if you just cost me another $400....  

Hi Brian

sorry to bother you with this again.... the kid won. She’s getting her MacBook Pro 16”. Will definitely upgrade to 32gb memory. But what else must I upgrade (emphasis on must)?

I’m assuming the 6-core processor is good enough but am debating the hard drive—do you think I can get away with 500 gb? I’d get her an external drive for storage and she won’t be churning out tons of content.

Also, is it worth $100 to upgrade the AMD Radeon Pro 5300M to 5500M? They both have 4gb of vram. 

here’s a link for your convenience, I really appreciate your thoughts—thanks!! https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/16-inch-space-gray-2.6ghz-6-core-processor-512gb#

I agree with you completely!  thanks again....

That’s so damn frustrating......

1 hour ago, Brian said:

Gone are the days of you replacing your own batteries, adding a Stick of RAM or even having an access panel to replace / upgrade the HD. It's just not Apple that is doing this, but practically all laptop manufacturers, though Apple is the worst offender. 

Is this true of the customizable ones (versus off the shelf) too? Different price points?

Today I showed her the cost of memory on crucial.com vs Apple and made her help me open her 2 year old Dell Inspiron laptop and double her memory from 8 to 16 gb with a stick I had lying around, making sure she understood that this couldn’t be done on a MacBook. But also I noticed that her laptop seemed a lot more plasticky than my xps. I did worry that I might break something. 

anyway, now she’s playing Minecraft and her shaders, whatever that is, are working! So hopefully I made an impression!

thanks again, Brian. I really appreciate your input. 

So funny that you should say this. She told me yesterday she “knows someone” on discord or Tiktok using a MacBook for this and she’ll ask. ?

luckily she also knows someone using a Lenovo. 

lets see if these people respond to her queries!

one more q: your recommended specs say 1tb EHD—is that external hard drive? New (to me) terminology for internal drive? 

thanks again!

Thank you Brian! This is really helpful. I’m not spending 4000 and your details will help me explain why to her. Hoping to convince her a dell XPS is “cool” and what smart people buy LOL. 

Love the story about your Mom ❤️

Hi Brian!

My 13 y.o. wants to play with Adobe After Effects, and I'm all for encouraging that..... but she wants a Macbook for her birthday, too.

Can I assume that everything in recent threads about Photoshop and Macbooks more or less applies to After Effects? Are there some areas where I could skimp since she's not a professional, daily, heavy user? (Smaller hard drive is the only one I can think of).

I do want her to be able to run the software seamlessly without lags.

I appreciate your thoughts, though I suspect I'll have to disappoint her with a Windows laptop......

Thanks!

yay!

sorry i misunderstood. all these kids are moving

I see that now....

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p.s. I also switched to Adobe standard profile on all of these

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will do in a bit--thank you as always.

yes but let me do the raw process tomorrow. in which case should I just go back to posting them over there?

i was just reading that and looking to take these down sorry. ignore my other two for now. (I had clicked on the example post and missed your instructions).

I didn't crop this one. nothing's in sharp enough focus. but I love it. hope you don't hate it.

My concern here is mainly the girl's blurry hand, in your opinion does it spoil the whole shot?

You said I could batch these but I didn't realize I'd be uploading crops and data shots.... here's the first of three. I changed the crop size so you can see both of those women with open eyes.

Thank you so much for all your help! I’m going to be really busy for the next week or so and probably won’t post any pics right away, but I’m glad to have gotten this calibration out of the way. ?