External monitors are your friend. While I can work on the 16" 16:9 monitor that's built in, I do most of my editing work when I'm at home with a 21" CRT running at 1836x1392.
One of the nice things about HP is they still make docking stations. I've got one so I just need to plug in a single cable and stick the laptop in the cradle and all of my peripherals are connected (Monitor, keyboard & mouse, ethernet, external drives, 2 scanners, printer, speakers, etc). -Adam On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Stan Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
