I use my desktop system (power mac g5 now) for most of my heavy image
processing work, but one of the reasons I also upgraded my laptop
(new PowerBook G4 1.67Ghz) was that I need to be able to do it
portably as well, occasionally. The laptop drives the same Cinema
Display 23" that I use with the desktop system and I've configured it
to work that way if I should need to.
Two notes:
- Have a calibrated profile for the laptop monitor as well as the
external monitor ready so that you can switch to the one you
want to use easily. You must calibrate the primary monitor that
you're
going to use for evaluating image tone and color after setting the
OS for
which one you are going to use as primary.
(I think the iBook video card only allows mirroring rather than
desktop extension, but regardless you have to run the calibration on
the monitor that is where you will be evaluating the tones and colors.)
- Stuff the laptop with as much memory as you can get in it.
CS2 runs pretty darn nicely on this system, and would do well (if
somewhat slower) on your iBook.
I don't run Windows systems so I can't answer as to whether you'll
get more bang for your buck there. Of course, with the latest
software from Apple, you could use a MacBook Pro configured to dual
boot ... run either Mac OS X or Windows XP. But in the long run, if
you are going to continue running dual OSes, you will probably want
both a Mac OS and a Windows OS license.
Godfrey
On Apr 24, 2006, at 1:01 PM, Dave Brooks wrote:
Cannot decide if i should get a PC version or Mac version(ibook) of
CS2.
Soo, a question. Anyone using a laptop and external monitor to
process photos.
If so are the results as you would expect.
BTW i'm leaning to the mac version.
Also, i have not done anything with colour yet. Is it best to run
the mac colour thingy on the
laptop screen or the external or both.
