<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Listers,<div><br></div><div>I would like to purchase a new Mac. I am debating which type will get me the best bang for the buck. I would like to know which Mac would be good to use for GRASS as I will be processing images, large databases, and crunching numbers. I currently have a Macbook with a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB of Memory. I find that bathymetry layers for large areas, such as the Gulf of Mexico take a long time to process if I do any analysis. I am looking at buying the iMac 27-inch with the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 and 4GB of memory</font></span></font></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; ">. This machine is quite expensive. Is there another option? Is it too powerful where I can buy another machine that will do the trick?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; ">Thanks,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; ">Andrew</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; "><br></span></div><div><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Andrew Lewin</div><div><a href="mailto:andrew.lewin@sympatico.ca">andrew.lewin@sympatico.ca</a></div><div><br></div><div>President </div><div>Coastal/Marine Spatial Ecologist</div><div><a href="http://www.spatialconserve.com">Spatial-Conserve Incorporated</a></div><div><br></div><div>Associate </div><div><a href="http://www.c-foam.management.uottawa.ca/index.html">C-FOAM</a> (Canadian Fisheries, Oceans and Aquaculture Management Group)</div><div>Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa</div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#808080" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; "><i><br></i></span></font></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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