If you really want to do serious color photo editing, you really ought to think in terms of a separate monitor, either an expensive color-accurate LCD, or a cheaper, available very cheap on the second hand market (and sometimes free) CRT. If you only turn it on when you're editing, the fact that it's less efficient than an LCD is less painful.
This would also sidestep the whole millions of colors issue, which is specific to the type of LCD Apple used on certain of their machines.
It also allows you to have a glossy screen for viewing DVDs and a color-accurate screen for photo-editing, though I suspect you'll prefer a matte screen for general use, anyway. As I understand it, glossy screens are optimized solely for viewing video and display (not editing) of photos, though fairly acceptable for many other uses.
If you are looking for something to do with your semi-busted TiBook, I have been finding uses for them and would be interested in discussing it with you.
I suspect that I will be most critical about B&W photos rather than extreme color accuracy on color photos. Knowing me, if I decided to get a CRT for photo editing, it would just get put off, and I would just use what I had (and be frustrated) or put off the editing indefinitely.
My current thought was to send the Tibook to Apple for recycling, if you have a better use, I would much prefer that. However, I expect that it will not be working at that point. As it is, I need to hard reset, every time I use it, if I run it too hot, it freezes up, and sometimes I need to wiggle the IR connector (through the hole in the case).
Yeah, with B&W as a priority, I would think that you could be quite happy with a hi-res LCD.
As for the TiBook, yeah, I have several donor machines, and they're relatively easy to work on, so if the machine works at all, there's a chance that I could do something with it, or use it to do something with one of my other machines.
I'm not just collecting them randomly; the TiBook turns out to be an excellent machine for some of the sound reinforcement work I've been doing -- a friend recently ran a large, complicated, contra dance gig with two TiBooks, one running Digital Performer and a VNC server (Apple Remote Desktop) and the other just running a VNC client. It worked great, and eliminated the need for a 100' snake, while improving control. I don't want to just use my regular laptop because there is some physical risk to the machine in question.
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This would also sidestep the whole millions of colors issue, which is specific to the type of LCD Apple used on certain of their machines.
It also allows you to have a glossy screen for viewing DVDs and a color-accurate screen for photo-editing, though I suspect you'll prefer a matte screen for general use, anyway. As I understand it, glossy screens are optimized solely for viewing video and display (not editing) of photos, though fairly acceptable for many other uses.
If you are looking for something to do with your semi-busted TiBook, I have been finding uses for them and would be interested in discussing it with you.
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My current thought was to send the Tibook to Apple for recycling, if you have a better use, I would much prefer that. However, I expect that it will not be working at that point. As it is, I need to hard reset, every time I use it, if I run it too hot, it freezes up, and sometimes I need to wiggle the IR connector (through the hole in the case).
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As for the TiBook, yeah, I have several donor machines, and they're relatively easy to work on, so if the machine works at all, there's a chance that I could do something with it, or use it to do something with one of my other machines.
I'm not just collecting them randomly; the TiBook turns out to be an excellent machine for some of the sound reinforcement work I've been doing -- a friend recently ran a large, complicated, contra dance gig with two TiBooks, one running Digital Performer and a VNC server (Apple Remote Desktop) and the other just running a VNC client. It worked great, and eliminated the need for a 100' snake, while improving control. I don't want to just use my regular laptop because there is some physical risk to the machine in question.
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