Digital BW, The Print

Well note that up until recently the portable solutions for the Leaf and
Phase One digital backs were a PDA and Sony Vaio computer respectively.
What I found was that desktop replacement notebooks are really heavy (except
the Apple PBs which are arguably less powerful).  Lugging a camera system is
enough of a chore.  You will very likely find a light 12in with reasonable
CPU more than enough for viewing/downloading photos on the road.

As for the workhorse computer, I still think you will find a considerable
difference with twin 64 bit processors....


> From: Sam McCandless <samcc@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:03:19 -0700
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: desktop-replacement notebooks (was Re: [Digital BW] QTR/OSX/7600
> -- upgrade report)
> 
> 
> It does help, Steve. But my prospective desktop-replacement notebook
> would have a generation's advantage over your actual notebook. So I
> have to wonder how much difference it makes if both the speed of the
> notebook's processor and the amount of RAM in it are roughly doubled
> and a faster hard drive is substituted? Maybe quite a bit; I believe
> notebook RAM can now approach Photoshop's limit even after the OS
> takes up a large chunk.
> 
> I hope someone on the list with such a killer notebook - Mac or
> Windows - can comment on it's Photoshop performance within a 16-bit
> workflow.
> 
> Steve's second point, that a lesser notebook would do for the digital
> camera's traveling companion, I'm still mulling over. That's
> intriguing partly because it might be enough less to actually carry
> around with the camera. Couldn't a really light 12-inch notebook do
> for this role?
> --
> Sam