Good laptop for Photoshopping - need help

I used PC for the last 12 years. Bought a Macbook a few month back and I keep asking myself why was I so masochistic for so long. EVERYTHING is so much easier on the Mac.

Buy the best Macbook you can afford and connect it to a large monitor.

Good luck.
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omoise said:

Buy the best Macbook you can afford and connect it to a large monitor.

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Why buy a notebook if you connect it to a monitor anyway? The point of having a notebook / laptop is that you can use it wherever your want, not being tied to a desk...

Eric
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I'll be cool too soon. Just ordered the new MBP, the 17' fully loaded.. for 5 grand.. I better be cool.
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I won't be shooting digital for 3 months. Shooting film for now, and learning to develop my own!

Are you guys blind or so?

He said: no Mac. No mac = no mac = no mac = take your Apple pushing elsewhere!

OP; the DDR3 is the succesor of DDR2. It gives more bandwith and consumes less energy.

Why people insist on buying from Sony, Dell, HP, etc.

Go to the source find out who REALLY makes laptops and buy from there.. research.

for example..

Sagernotebook.com (clevo systems) and save money.

or xoticpc.com(clevo and others)

Build what you want.. even quad cores.. depends on what you want to pay.

I bought my wife a sager 2096(clevo) for 1349.00 shipped. It would have been well into the 2ks from Dell.

Had the following:

Intel core 2 duo 9500 6mb L2 cache 2.53
3 gb ram
nvidia 9500 512 mb video
320 gb 7200 rpm HD
wireless N
bluetooth
webcam
1680x10050 15.4 screen
windows xp sp2

filthypuppydog said:

Hmm.... English its such a contrary language and not that precise from reading some of the above posts.

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His English seems pretty clear to me. Unless I posted when I was very tired, I'm sure it reads clear as well.

As for a reply to him, I can imagine having a surcharge for a Mac would be a big turnoff. As odd as it sounds, the Mac "Mighty Mouse" does have two buttons, it can tell which finger you are clicking with and does the proper click most of the time. I personally also dislike the "Mighty Mouse" but you can get alternative pointing devices such as a Wacom tablet or other brands of mouse. (A tablet would be more suited for doing graphics work anyhow.)

DDR2 and DDR3 are completely different types of system memory. Systems tend to take only one type but some may allow using either. (But not both at the same time.)

Some reading comparing the two:
http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2989&p=2

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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. - Ansel Adams

High 5 to you.

I'm not a big laptop user but the MBP is very nice. I'm thinking more along the lines of the Macbook Air when I get the money and need for one.

PinHeadPhotography said:

I'll be cool too soon. Just ordered the new MBP, the 17' fully
loaded.. for 5 grand.. I better be cool.
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I won't be shooting digital for 3 months. Shooting film for now, and
learning to develop my own!

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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. - Ansel Adams

Filthypuppydog says ....

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"Uhhh.... thanks all.... let's stipulate that I don't want a mac - anyone got a view on the specs I need for my Windows laptop?"

???????

Ian

I love my Macbook Pro. I would recommend the basic model and then max out the RAM (4gig) through crucial.com. The screen is calibrates better than any other laptop I have used and the OS is great. I use to be a die-hard pc user. Now I cringe anytime I have to use one.

Good luck!

egrivel said:

omoise said:

Buy the best Macbook you can afford and connect it to a large monitor.

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Why buy a notebook if you connect it to a monitor anyway? The point
of having a notebook / laptop is that you can use it wherever your
want, not being tied to a desk...

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Eric-

The point is that then you get the best of both worlds. One of my early setups at home was an AST (PC) laptop that I ran out onto a 15 inch monitor (in like 1992). I now run a MacBook Pro with a 17 inch screen out to an Apple 30 inch cinema display.

The advantage of this is that if I wish I can "take it all with me" and have the MBP with a good screen along with me on trips or whatever, but at home it "feels" like a desktop. I have a keyboard, mouse, printers and a couple of external HDDs hooked up when it is on my desk, so it really is a desktop replacement.

The one issue with this is you need a laptop that has the guts to do what you want with your photos, and that's where the Macs begin to win out. As I posted earlier, the way Unix handles tasks is very efficient, so a MBP can make this setup feasible. I am sure a capable notebook PC such as has been discussed in the thread would work similarly and give you the same advantages (but would also bet that if that is your only machine, the cost difference between the two platforms might be less than some posters have suggested). This is not really a platform issue, just one of how you work, and can you actually get a laptop of either platform which will act as a desktop replacement. My cousin, an Apple certified engineer, goes one step further and actually has a setup where the laptop (his is a 15 inch MBP) sits on a homemade platform and has all the cords for the peripherals tied down. He just brings the laptop home and plugs everything in from a standard place (think like a typing keyboard drawer). I can tell you the advantages of having the one laptop, which gives me portability, but which also has the ability to output to a large monitor is one that should not be dismissed lightly - it works!
Bill

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Heh, It doesn't have any on board peripherals. So, don't you have to make sure all of your stuff is either USB, or Bluetooth.
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...I'm a crazy kid...

True, for my case (since it will be for me) I have a Mac Pro which it can directly interface with to utilize the CD/DVD drive and I use flash drives for a great deal of storage and file transfers anyhow. For other people it wouldn't be the best however you could still get the external CD/DVD drive for it if need be. I just like the full size laptop with the super thin and light weight profile.

PinHeadPhotography said:

Heh, It doesn't have any on board peripherals. So, don't you have to
make sure all of your stuff is either USB, or Bluetooth.
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...I'm a crazy kid...

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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. - Ansel Adams

PinHeadPhotography said:

Heh, It doesn't have any on board peripherals. So, don't you have to
make sure all of your stuff is either USB, or Bluetooth.
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...I'm a crazy kid...

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Actually, the point is its a laptop - the keyboard is built in, but why use that when I can have more comfort with an external one with all the bells and whistles? Same for a mouse instead of the track/touch pad (my laptop has a DVD/CD drive built in) and for the printers - attached by USB. The nice thing about MBP is they also have Firewire, so I have two external HDD (one backs up the entire system using Leopard's Time Machine, one backs up just Lightroom to the external drive), one Firewire, one USB. This means that in terms of workflow I have photos on the hard drive of the laptop, on a separate HD and in backup of the complete system (triple redundancy). I have re-installed from each external HDD to make sure it works, and am quite pleased.

If you think about it, other than perhaps a bigger internal hard drive, most desktops have the same type of configuration, as the keyboard, mouse and so on are most likely externally attached as well. With the desktop replacement the advantage is, I can take the laptop and go, and have a working system with me by leaving the peripherals behind.
Bill
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Níl gach uile fhánaí caillte

"no mac"