Digital BW, The Print

Not yet in my case, Mark. But I'm thinking about trying to specify 
such a system so I can expose it for review. Because it seems to me 
to make  lot of sense for anyone who uses a digital camera if the 
notebook can both replace a desktop computer at home (or in an 
office) _and_ serve as a traveling companion for the digital camera. 
And my excuses for not using a digital camera are running out.

I'm assuming that I would want to see the images on the notebook's 
relatively large screen before losing the chance to try the exposure 
again. But I have also been assuming that at home I'd want an even 
larger, and probably a better, monitor to see the images on. There I 
had thought that the notebook's smaller screen would be just for 
palettes and other non-image display. I.e., I'm assuming "dual" 
display, not just "mirroring".

On this assumption, less space is saved if the at-home monitor is 
still a CRT. And less money is saved if it is _not_ still a CRT. 
That's changing with each generation of hardware. But right now, I 
think the best solution for me would be a large CRT backed into a 
corner and slightly raised above the level on which the notebook 
would sit in front of the CRT when driving both displays. If they 
both sit on Anthro.com's smaller two-shelf corner cart, this takes 
less than 4' x 4' out of a corner of a room. And below the lower 
shelf the new notebook sits on, there's room for your old desktop 
computer to hang in a rack and serve as a store house for large hard 
drives and as a print server. The printer(s) could stay either on a 
wing attached to the corner cart or on a separate cart, which could 
move around at print time or be controlled remotely.

Mark is, however, considering an even more minimalist system. Which I 
wouldn't have thought feasible except for small images. But Apple's 
new 17-inch PowerBook has a display which might do. And I'm not sure 
it trades off any quality by requiring image editing "by the 
numbers". What I've been even more intrigued by, though, is the new 
12-inch PowerBook; I'm wondering whether it is big enough for 
palettes, which big CRT would go best with it, and what in-the-field 
experience with the 12-inch iBook has been like?

Sam


>Hi. Is anyone here using a notebook PC to edit digital images? I'm
>considering making the switch from PC tower/monitor to notebook (for
>space saving reasons) and I'd appreciate recommendations regarding
>screen type, video card, etc. which you've found to work best.
>Obviously there's a tradeoff in terms of quality versus space, so I'm
>curious about how you've dealt with this tradeoff (e.g. relying more
>on the RGB numbers than what the monitor displays). Thanks!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Mark