General comment on the laptop vs. desktop choice: been there, done that. For many years I used a 15" Macbook Pro as my only computer. Two-three years ago I got a desktop (iMac 20"). I needed a newer computer with more RAM and higher speed to handle Lightroom and I wanted the larger higher resolution screen. IMHO, if your laptop has a big enough screen to be of much value in evaluating/editing photos, then it has gotten too large to be of much value as a portable system. Last year I bought a new Mac laptop, 13", that I travel with. It is a minor nuisance to copy files back and forth, etc. but for me a small laptop plus reasonable desktop is a far more functional setup than operating with a single computer.
stan On Jun 14, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Gonz wrote: > My old desktop PC died, where I had photoshop, scanning software, etc. > It was hardly able to keep up with photoshop, and it had a hard time > with the new fangled USB 2.0 card reader that I used to read my 8Gb > SDHC cards, the previous generation reader was ok, but could not read > the SDHC cards. > > So my question is: are the newer laptops (mid-range) able to handle > photoshop ok? I'm leaning towards laptop, as the portability makes it > way more convenient than a desktop. But I fear that they do not have > the horsepower of desktops and I will have a difficult time using > photoshop. > > Any experiences or opinions? > > Thanks, > > Gonz > > -- > -- Reduce your Government Footprint > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
