using a laptop for photoshop?

[Esquire]

totally bad?

not to rough....?

4200rpm could be killer

 

[deftron]

what about it?

 

[Esquire]

man your quick, hit enter early?

 

[notfred]

Wouldn't matter what kind of laptop it was or anything

 

[RyanM]

I find it difficult to work in any resultions smaller than 1600x1200, so on a laptop, I'm usually cramped.

HOWEVER - If it was a tablet PC, I could accept the decreased resolution since I'd have the flexibility of stylus-driven work.

 

[Esquire]

someone i know whats to do photo imaging work, wants a lappy or desktop

i say desktop?

 

[RyanM]

Yeah. 19" CRT, with a 17" or 19" companion monitor for a multimonitor setup, desktop, with at LEAST 1 gig of RAM, Athlon or P4 proc (Athlons in the past tend to bench better in photoshop, but a top of the line P4 system with the 800 MHz bus my do a bit better these days), as fast as a hard drive as he can afford for a boot drive (Small, 40 gigs or so), and a second hard drive with copious size.

That's my formula for a graphics machine.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Esquire
someone i know whats to do photo imaging work, wants a lappy or desktop

i say desktop?

I do too.

The only laptop I'd consider for doing any serious photoshop work at all is a 17" powerbook.