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Here's wishing all the Fotozones members a healthy and prosperous 2024. I look forward to seeing more of you in this next trip around the sun. ๐Ÿ™‚ย 

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I've been birthing a new computer here since just before Christmas, and hopefully this is the last time I'll ever have to do so, which explains my absence here of late. Windows 10 was no longer being supported by some of my peripherals, and my old machine was unable to be updated to Windows 11 - so catch 22 = a new i-9 all-SSD computer. Loading all the software really is a drag, though.

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Hey Alan, I was about to send out a search party for you! Glad to see you back again. ๐Ÿ™‚ย 

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Yes, these infernal computers that rule our lives... the source of most of my stress. I am very grateful for the existence of them, but they also make me very angry a lot of the time. My computers are now all older than 5 years, the one Ann Shelbourne brought over from B&H for me in 2010 is also still in use thanks to the Open Core Legacy Patcher that is somehow allowing me to run a more modern version of macOS than it is "technically" capable of running. Just goes to show, it's the software companies who are driving this constant upgraditis.ย 

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I am planning on getting a new Mac Mini this year because the 2018 Intel one is not able to deal with 4K video, something I have been thrust into involuntarily.ย 

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I really didn't want to go down the new computer path - my old one was keeping pace (or so I thought), but I can't do without a Wacom tablet and with Wacom no longer supporting my old Intuos IV tablet with drivers for Windows 10 I had already bought a new Intuos Pro tablet. As I bought at the top end of the market back in December 2011 (the first generation i-7 processor & 64GB DDR2 ram) I did get a good run, but the latest 2024 Photoshop had also required 4GB minimum graphics which led to a new card last year and everything thus snowballed to this inevitable new machine as I was clearly being forced down a perpetual upgrading of various bits and pieces with the old machine.

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Perhaps the thing that has become most evident with starting afresh is how slickly the new setup works - 12 years of installing/uninstalling/adding & subtracting bits and pieces as well as numerous software updates and the cumulative effect all that had on the machine's performance (aside from the hardware updates needed during that time) really did have a creeping performance hit that wasn't so obvious at the time. Unfortunately this has been let down with the dog of an interface that Windows 11 has foisted onto us for no other reason that it's "new". Being used to tree navigation of my drives, the icon-based disjointed interface Microsoft has decided we have to enjoy with Windows 11 is simply bloody awful. The default "pretty" navigation that it continually reverts to leaves me constantly confused, which is really bloody annoying. The rafts of workaround YouTubes that abound (none of which really work) would indicate that I am far from being Robinson Crusoe on this.๐Ÿ™

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Wacom did that to me with one of their tablets years ago. One day after an OS upgrade the thing just didn't work anymore, as you say because they don't want to update the drivers. I find this practice reprehensible, to be honest. I did have a couple of Wacom tablets after that, mainly to help me with the deep etching process in product photography, but I sold them both after discovering that outsourcing this to other people was much better for my sanity.

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The latest Adobe apps have made this job even easier with incredibly good subject detection, thus rendering the need for deep etching pretty much moot. I can in most instances do this in Lightroom to turn a background pure white, or if it struggles I can edit in Photoshop and use the select and mask tools in there to get close to the end result. That all of this requires no tablet and could ultimately render the need for another of Wacom's temporary products void pleases me no end. ๐Ÿ™‚ย 

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