Not to be a downer but any *pad from Lenovo other than the thinkpad are not so great, quality wise, and will, on average, not last as long as a thinkpad. I know the price difference is hefty but it's totally worth it.
Also, I would buy a bigger SSD. 24 GB just doesn't cut it, especially since with time SSDs tend to lose storage, so you would need space to deal with the loss. I would go with a minimum of 128 GB. RAM: 4GB is good, but 8GB is super. Lastly, get an i-5; it's better than i-3 and beats the value for money compared to the i-7. Regards, Glad On 17.03.2014 17:33, Colin Adams wrote: > My 6-year-old laptop has finally given up the ghost, so I'm looking for > a new one. > > What I'm currently considering is a: > > > Lenovo Ideapad U310 13-inch Ultrabook (Graphite) - (Intel Core i3 > 3217U 1.8GHz Processor, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD + 24GB SSD, Windows 8) > > > Of course, I shall promptly remove windows and put Fedora 20 on it instead. > > My principle use of darktable is on my desktop machine, but when i go > away on holiday, i use my latop for storage (I dump my cards to it every > evening). Then I will use the lighttable feature to look over my days > photos. > > So it's nice to have a 500GB drive (my old machine had only 80MB, and I > once filled it up with two days left of the holiday. Luckily I was able > to rely on my card for the last 2 days, but sometimes I fill it up in > less than 2 hours). But what to do with the 24GB SSD? My first thought > is to use it for a swap file, but if there is some feature of darktable > that could exploit it, I'd consider that instead. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book > "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their > applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, > this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech > > > > _______________________________________________ > Darktable-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users > -- Sent from my iTooth. Get your own teeth to send Emails under www.itooth.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
