To add an insult to an injury, Sigma's lens also looks better than Canon/Nikon counterparts. :-) Go Sigma, if nothing else C/N will up the ante or lower the price. They've been getting lazy and...
Folks, Apple had GPU acceleration everywhere in Aperture for almost 8 years now. GPU acceleration on the Mac is not "hard". Imaging code ships right with the OS, including the goodies like color...
They excluded the clear winner - Apple Aperture. Given decent hardware, Aperture is literally 3x faster than anything else at browsing and rendering large pictures. Why? Because it's GPU...
Note that like any wide gamut monitor this will be BAD for general web browsing and stuff. Images without a color profile (or any images at all in browsers which don't support color profiling) will...
If it's anywhere near as good (not to mention better) as Canon's f/4 (which I owned, years ago in non-IS incarnation), the lens will be a hit. I'd rather have a 70-200 that I won't hesitate to put...
Folks, if you have never seen Retina display, just STFU, go to the store and take a look at one. There's really no going back to anything with lower pixel density or color gamut. Plus it comes...
Influenced by Apple no doubt. Every couple of years there will now be a "new" M, and the old, discounted M sold for those without the means to buy the new one.