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gentleman00

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Aug 8, 2007
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Could you please list the top three to five uses for your imac 27" inch. Mine are:

1. surfing the web
2. word processing, excel, powerpoint
3. Itunes
4. Iphoto
5. Movies
 
- Internet (Safari, Mail, Adium, iChat, Skype, ...)
- Videos, Music, Photos (iTunes, iPhoto, QuickTime, VLC, Handbrake, ...)
- Gaming (C&C, CS, UT, WoW, ScummVM, DOSBox, ...)
- Web-Design (Dreamweaver, BBEdit, Transmit)
- Other stuff (Pages, Keynote, iCal, Pixelmator, ... )
 
1) Virtualization (multiple LAMP environments plus Windows 7)
2) Simultaneously viewing large amounts of porn
3) Pretending to myself that I have a Mac Pro with a 30" Cinema display
4) Gaming
 
1. Photoshop & Lightroom
2. Internet
3. Dreamweaver
4. iTunes & iPhone
5. After Effects & FCE (hobbie/favours)
 
1. Work: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Aperture, Word, Acrobat Pro
2. Internet: Safari, Mail, Transmit, Adium, Transmission, Mumble
3. Family: iPhoto, iMovie
4. Games: WoW, Dragon Age (Win XP)
5. Everyday's Tools: iTunes, Yojimbo, Thing, Evernote, iCal, FontExplorer Pro
 
1. Internet, Email, Spread sheets
2. Editing photos. Photoshop, Aperture
3. Encoding Video. Handbrake
4. Front Row. Its in my room so I use it to stream media
5. Media Server. So I can steam media to my PS3 and 360
 
Don't have mine yet (plan to buy next Friday :rolleyes:), but here is what I WILL use it for:

1.) Heavy-duty photo editing
2.) e-mail
3.) word processing
4.) maintain several website
5.) Internet (research and miscellaneous browsing)
 
1. Word processing
2. Using as stereo to listen to music
3. Surfing Internet
4. Using as TV to watch movies
5. Video & photo editing and viewing
 
1. Work: M$ office, Quickbooks, assorted Adobe CS3 apps, lightroom.
2. Internet
3. Music streamed to receiver in living room. (Highly recommended)
3. "backing up" movies/Mac the ripper/handbrake
 
1. Benchmarking (for online articles)
2. Cartooning (Painter, Photoshop)
3. Desk sculpture and eye candy to impress my friends
 
Photo/Video Editing
1) Photoshop/Lightroom
2) Premiere
3) Final Cut Studio

Audio Editing/Ripping
1) Bias Peak Pro
2) Max
3) xACT

- Looking to get into online TV
 
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