Totally inappropriate for her needs. She'll be shooting raw, wants her files handy so she can work on them, has a laptop but doesn't want to carry it around when out of the van, which she may be for a few days at a time. A storage device that allows lots of storage is a better solution.
Shel Aaron Wrote: For the non-laptop, has she thought about something like the Palm LifeDrive? Not a ton of storage space, true (4 GB), but it'll do a lot of other things that are useful on a road trip. It has a well-sized screen (over four inches), will do e-mail and internet connected either via a modern cell phone or wireless, and can do many things that you'd want a laptop to do, but it fits comfortably in a pocket. I don't think there's any software for it currently that displays RAW files, and I think that the only card slot in it is for SD. I don't own one -- I own the Palm TX, which is similar but without the 4GB internal storage (it only has about 100mb of user-accessible memory plus whatever you stick in the SD slot), and I've been surprised by how capable it is. So capable, in fact, that my iBook that needs a minor repair may never be repaired. I did get a wireless keyboard for it to speed up my writing. Once I found out that they had upgraded the press box at Rogers Centre to have wireless instead of banks of phone jacks for dial-up modems, I immediately tried pulling out the SD card from the camera and sticking it into the Palm and then sending the files via e-mail as an attachment -- it worked beautifully. It would probably drive me up the wall trying to send all 800, but for filing a couple of key shots in a hurry, it rocks and rolls. Now I'm trying to find a web uploader that works consistently with the internet browser built into the Palm. Oh, there's another idea -- get a free gmail account from Google, get a Palm with wireless and e-mail your images to yourself for storage whenever you hit a coffee shop or restaurant or wherever you find wireless access. It was greatly useful on our trip to Washington, where we'd stop for coffee at places where we knew there was free wireless and check all of our e-mail and news from home.
