Digital BW, The Print

W,

I take issue with you on several points.

I am a Mac User - had one of the first generation G4 Titanium 
Powerbooks - used daily - read: everywhere - had it for 3 years before 
selling it to a friend and buying a new Powerbook. The money was very 
well spent - never broke down, never crashed.

So - I could work whereever I was - it was color calibrated - 
everything I did on it I could trust to be color correct just as well 
as on my desktop G4 - made me much more efficient off the studio. In 
addition it also held - as the new one holds - my business software - 
my websites, email, ability to print anywhere - my portfolio - in short 
- a copy of everything I had or could do on my desktop

As for 1) - I treat my Powerbook as I treat my cameras - they are all 
highly desirable - so your point about thieves is as far as I am 
concerned - moot.

2) - I simply do not understand what your point is here at all - moot

3) - see point 1 - moot.

Your statement about memory modules is not correct - I recently bought 
a 512 mb dimm  for the powerbook for less than $80.

A cheap - read: old - PC laptop is a worthless investment - you will 
never be able to color calibrate that LCD and if you buy a PC it will 
very quickly be obsolete and may not even from the time you buy it be 
able to be incorporated in your business flow.

The statement about prices regarding LCD's versus a "standard" monitor 
is correct - I work with 19" LaCie's  - unbeatable for the price.

Your statement:

> With a desktop you can control the lighting direction, type and
> colour, something you can't do in the field.

- I simply do not understand at all..

Christer

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On Oct 6, 2004, at 8:36 PM, 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> It really depends on your workflow.  If you tend to do a lot of image 
> reviewing, and
> manipulation in the field, then a powerful notebook is a good idea.  
> There are some
> issues though:
>
> 1) Thieves, have radar for high-end laptops the chance of your laptop 
> disappearing
> are quite high.
> 2) Lighting, you can't control lighting in the field, so colour 
> balancing for field lighting
> conditions, can mean when you get home, the colour balance is off.
> 3) Fragility, laptops are fragile beasts, dropping a $5,000 laptop and 
> killing it, is as
> bad as dropping a $5,000 camera and killing it.  Tripping over 
> something and
> dropping both at the same time, would make some people go to the 
> nearest cliff,
> and throw themselves over.
>
> However if you want a quick review of the days shooting, to decide 
> what worked and
> what didn't.  A cheap laptop can be a good investment, even if the 
> only image
> program you have is the one that came with your camera.  A used laptop 
> can be
> had for under $300 you want one with CD burning capability, where the 
> burner
> actually works.  Download your cards and review in the field, then 
> leave the images
> alone.
>
> Laptops and  upgrades are expensive, the cost of a 128MB module for a 
> laptop will
> typically buy you 1GB for a desktop.  You can get a big monitor, like 
> a 19 inch,
> much cheaper then trying to get a 18inch LCD panel.  I have tried 
> laptops, the goofy
> keyboards and mice are much harder to work with then on the desktop 
> where you
> can spread out.  With a desktop you can control the lighting 
> direction, type and
> colour, something you can't do in the field.
>
> W

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