On Wed, 2021-03-03 at 10:32 +0100, 'Kay F. Jahnke' via hugin and other free panoramic software wrote:
> I must admit that the M1 is very attractive, though. It might be > worthwhile to just buy a small machine with this chip - I'd like a > macbook air, because I don't have an up-to-date laptop - my newest > thinkpad is eight years old or so. Guilty as charged. Typing this on a 2013 MacBook Air, when the 2013 Sony Vaio, very similar tech specs, is already on the electro-junk heap with broken parts not worth repairing. 2018 Microsoft Surface Book Pro (or whatever mindboggling name MSFT's marketing has thought for that device) is already defective (the contact at the hinge between tablet and keyboard keeps breaking up); 2019 Lenovo Thinkpad T495s has already been into warranty once and if left connected to its power brick for too long has seizures. As a result, I am now the only family member without an iDevice and the M1 has joined the school-mandated iPad. I did get a used iPhone to test the experience for myself, and so far it feels like being in a golden cage. It is still a prison, even if golden. Apple does a lot of things very well. Sadly, at the critical junction, it retains control of the T1 / encryption keys instead of giving control to the user who should be allowed to choose between Apple's encryption keys; consumer's own encryption keys; or no encryption at all. > > With regard to bundling with Hugin: > > > It is in fact completely new technology. Potentially disruptive. I have not touched panorama photography for ages, so forgive me if I am missing something. If it is so disruptive, why not adding to pv the missing functions from Hugin rather than the other way around? And in both cases, what is the main obstacle to move functionality from pv to Hugin or from Hugin to pv? If memory serves me well, the current preview mode in Hugin was born as a project to improve the existing preview. Turned out that a complete replacement was not possible/desirable and so the two lived side-by- side in the same package. The difference here is that pv started life in a separate GUI toolkit, or am I mistaken? -- Yuval Levy, JD, MBA, CFA Ontario-licensed lawyer -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hugin-ptx/c5cc23ae2cb29bb4182801ac8f259ac59d060d4d.camel%40levy.ch.
