laptops

Does anyone have any suggestions on laptops ideally suited to PS etc.?

macbook/macbookpro.

They're all so fast nowadays that things like screen quality and connections are the clinching arguments, at least for me.

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I've seen a few that have a CF/SD slot, so that might be handy depending on what camera you have - you won't need an additional reader.

I buy Dell for my comapny, we haven't had any major problems in 4 years, occasional extermal power supply went wrong, the occasional DVD drive breaking down (but then they get used in difficult environments - mine sites in africa - and they aren't the "toughend" types either. No batteries bursting into flame either.

If you anticiapte carrying the laptop around a lot look at the weight! Buy the biggest hard disk you can afford, and the most ram. A DVD or CD burner will be handy to backup your photos.

I love my crackbook, er, macbook.
It gotz 2 gigles of ram.
I got giggles tooo.
been workinf and drinking wine.
Big coporate gig...fun party.
shot aboot 500 good shots and played live previews during shoot on big screen tv
customerz very happy...me too
layed out thankyou cardz an printed snapz on two epsons, while running sldie show abd laying out dvd

I think the biggest problem is screen quality - none are anywhere near as useable as a high quality CRT. Not that I've seen anyway, and also the brightness can vary depending on the viewing angle, which makes image adjustment very hit and miss.

Don sounds like a 'happy' man. Might go and get some 'happy' juice myself.

I have a Dell Inpsiron 9200, 2GHZ Centrino 1GB ram and a whooping 17" screen that is as good as any CRT that I have used (last one being a 19" IBM P90).
My stepson still uses the P90 and I have at times compared them with the same image and to be honest I can't see a lot between them, even less so since I got the Heuy.

well my head hurts a little today....went witching (or dowsing if you preferr), I don't use a stick or wire, heck I'm not even looking for water....I just make a v with my fingers and move my arm till it twiches and follow it to the coffee....
seriously though, I have an Emac, an Imac and a mackbook, which means a side by side of a high quality crt, lcd and glossy lcd. here's the skinny...
the emac is where all my photo print jobs get done...my I mac is where most video editing and photo compositing gets done. I could live with out the emac, but it is easier to get profiled, and angle of view doesn't chang contrast...the Imac is better than most people would think, and the new cinema displays are better than crts.
The Macbook is a different story...in the studio it can blow away any crt and lcd I've owned to date, for sharpness and contrast and color. Outside the studio, it totally losses it and is of a pain. the glossy finish is highly reflective, and hard to see. the contrast chanes with viewing angle. A huey helps as does a couple of permanent marker dots (on the chasis and lid) used to line up the lid for repeatable viewing angles.
you can run both osx and windoze at the same time on the macbook.

You need more coffee, and I need more beer, but I like your attitude, and I like the pics you have posted in the past, oh, and-by-the-way I'm 100% Mac and 100% Pentax, if I could just get about 10% more Jack Daniels, ..............

p.s. still working on that thing you did about bonjour and connecting the 'D', it seems to work, ( in part ), for the DS too. I must experiment more, but thanks for the starter !! Keep posting.

Don and Brian
what is the spec of the Mac/ Dell laptop and what software are you using?
Ken

PS
How compatible are they with Laphroiag or Springbank?

I found the macbook pro a little over kill for my needs. opted for the macbook 13" with 1.83 ghz intel core duo processor. 2 gig ddr2 667 ram (got two 256 ddr2 sodimms for sale if anybody wants). cd rw/dvdrom, 60 gig sata hd, bluetooth and airport extreme. the price for a compareable dell is higher, plus it doesnt need antivirus or spyware protection unless i install windows. performance is great, in fact while running windows it out performed all comparably equipped windows laptops!
photoshop runs through a translation software called rosetta on the intel processor, and goes about the same speed as it does on the power pc macs. expect a 1.5 - 3x increase in speed if adobe releases an intel version for mac. other software that is intel optimized go about double the speed of my power pc imac. (iphoto, and imovie and idvd all run noticably faster on the 'book than my Imac (which is no slouch with 2 gigs of ram and g5 ). Sales cleck will try to upsell you to the macbook pro....it has a seperate graphics card and does 3d graphics better than the macbook...(stock..that gap narrows with a ram upgrade...and photoshop peaks at about one gig ram for itself) if you don't do 3d games you won't ever notice the difference. If you can't get the software you need for mac, then you install windows. better to get the smaller sized notebook and an external monitor if you want the best f both worlds in terms of portability, and big screens.
ps thanx galloot...

The Macbook Pro is supposedly the fastet laptop for Photoshop, when it's running XP Pro, oddly enough. Dell also makes some decent machines.

A laptop screen is not the best for photo editing, but it's very useful in the field before you get the images back to your main rig.

Ironically, some direct experience of this has been thrust upon me as my PC has just become very sick. Whilst that is being repaired, I am using our Toshiba laptop with its diamond screen, and also the iiyama CRT at the same time. The difference is astounding, and despite the laptop screen being much sharper, the CRT beats its in every way for Photoshop use. The CRT has better colours, has no problem with viewing angle and has the correct degree of brightness and contrast.

No contest in our IT Dept.