Lookin for best lappy 4 the job

[ShellGuy]

I am tryin to figuer out what would be the best laptop to get to be able to do Photo Editing and things of that nature very ram and processor intensive. I am tryin to get best ban for buck out of this one.. I already know of the big E. Tryin to c what other people have in there heads about this one.




Will G..

 

[beyoku]

-Well if the big E has the athlon 64 then that is a good choice at 1200 bucks. - i got one.
-Also you got the big D - Dell has an inspiron 9100 or something, its big as hell, has 9700 gfx and 2800p4 for about the same price, maybe 100 more.
-3rd option is to go with a cheap mac.

 

[ShellGuy]

Well i was just lookin at the Powerbooks and they aint cheap I guess i will have 2 stick with something that runs windows..



Will G.

 

[cy7878]

if you do photo editing, you will also want a CRT monitor for color caliberation. Most laptop LCDs can't display the colors properly for real photo editing.

Try printing the photos out and you will see what I mean.

 

[Dubb]

whatever you get, see if you can get the least ram possible and upgrade yourself. mushkin has 1GB sticks of pc2700 laptop mem for ~250 after 10% coupon..

 

[Justin216]

Macs are obviously choice for photo editing due to the way that G4 processors handle imaging quickly and effectively, especially in very high resolution layers....Regardless, a CRT monitor is basically required, and not one of those cheapies....if you're going to do any decent photography, you cannot be cheap....

 

[ShellGuy]

Hey yall,
Thanks for the ideas. I have read that LCD mons can reproduce the needed colors but im not sure about the Lappy mons. As for Macs they are high in price for what ya get. So i will prob look around at the AMD 64 lappys. Would love the Emachine with a better vid card. I understand about the min memory as most makers charge an arm n a leg for this. Also I may just get one with no Hdd. This way i can just buy the 7200 i want neways.




Will G.

 

[cy7878]

it's not just the colors, but brightness and contrast some times is insufficient to display the image properly in LCDs. Have a spare CRT on the side. Basically anything with Pentium M is powerful enough to run photoshop.

 

[ShellGuy]

The prob wouldn't really be runnin photoshop per say which i would be usin the Adobe CS for that but the prob would be workin with the .RAW files and high res Jpgs. I had a prob runnin Map point on an older toshiba so i am lookin for somethin with power to spare. I have no probs gettin more ram and stuff. Just lookin for ideas from others.



Will G.

 

[cy7878]

I think a Pentium M 1.6 or above should be fine. When in doubt, order a Thinkpad from IBM or a Dell with proper specs and try it out. You can always return it back to them if it is too slow. What are you running as a desktop?

 

[ShellGuy]

I havn't really started workin with large photos but i am runnin a 17" Phillips mon which is an older mon. But the sys is a amd xp 2400+ with 512 2700 ddr ram. and an older radion graphics card...



Will G