NJHeart2Heart
Active Member
- Joined
- Jun 25, 2009
- Messages
- 463
- Location
- Northern NJ, USA
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
- Lightroom Version
- Classic
Hello all,
I'm relatively new here. I'm a photo hobbyist, on my second round of trying the "RAW road" and hope to stay on this path. I just installed LR 2.4 on my older laptop after a trial period and am now looking to invest in an upgrade. I currently have an older pc laptop and it runs LR albeit slow. I haven't done much developing at all, but have been working at organizing, keywording and rating my existing pics. I do not intend to do much fancy developing, with no intention at all to do photoshop type stuff. I just want to be able to export my raws into web ready and print ready (8x1's or less) jpgs, but would like to play with syncing and such to make the process faster. Right now my budget is in the $1,''' range, and the following two laptops are going for $135' and 1449 respectively. I'd like opinions, based on the above and the specs below, on what you think might be best. I am currently quite happy with WINXP, but hate Vista from the little playing around I've done with it and would want to upgrade to WIN7 as soon as it's released (which is when?). I am open to going the Mac route, although that means another investment in software that can copy windows, since I have a few other favorite programs that are windows only platforms.
I would greatly appreciate your opinions- both PC/WIN and on specs regardless of machine.
NJHeart2Heart Dawn
I'm relatively new here. I'm a photo hobbyist, on my second round of trying the "RAW road" and hope to stay on this path. I just installed LR 2.4 on my older laptop after a trial period and am now looking to invest in an upgrade. I currently have an older pc laptop and it runs LR albeit slow. I haven't done much developing at all, but have been working at organizing, keywording and rating my existing pics. I do not intend to do much fancy developing, with no intention at all to do photoshop type stuff. I just want to be able to export my raws into web ready and print ready (8x1's or less) jpgs, but would like to play with syncing and such to make the process faster. Right now my budget is in the $1,''' range, and the following two laptops are going for $135' and 1449 respectively. I'd like opinions, based on the above and the specs below, on what you think might be best. I am currently quite happy with WINXP, but hate Vista from the little playing around I've done with it and would want to upgrade to WIN7 as soon as it's released (which is when?). I am open to going the Mac route, although that means another investment in software that can copy windows, since I have a few other favorite programs that are windows only platforms.
| PC: | MAC: |
| 15.4" WXGA 128'x8'' widescreen LCD TFT | 15.4" LED backlit glossy widescreen 144'x9'' |
| Intel Montevina Core 3 Duo Mobile T95' Dual-Processor (2x2.66ghx/6mb Cache 1'66FSB) | Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.53 GHz (2x 2GB SO-DIMMS 6MB shared 1'66MHz DDR3SDRAM [supports up to 4GB]) |
| 4GB (2 GB x2) DDR2-8'' PC64'' | NVIDIA GeForce 96''M GT and NVIDIA GeForce 94''M w/ 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory |
| 512MB NVIDIA GEForce GO 96''M GT PCI-Express 3D Video | 512MB GDDR3 |
| 3D Premium Surround sound onboard | Built-in stereo speakers, built-in ominidirectional microphone, combined optical digital input/analog line in, combined optical digital output/analog line out |
| Built-in 1'/1''/1''' Network LAN | Built-in 1'/1''/1''' BASE T (Gigabit) Ethernet |
| 5'' GB 72''rpm serial ATA-15' hard drive | 32' GB 54''rpm serial ATA |
| 2X Blu-Ray-R/8x Dual Format DVD+-R/=-RW +16x CD-R/RW Combo drive | 8x Superdrive (DVD+-R DL/DVD+-RW/CD-RW) |
| built in 3 in 1 media card reader/writer (*I use SD cards) | ---------- |
| 56K fax modem | ----------- |
| Intel Pro/wireless 53'' 8'2.11 a/gn/ WiFi Link | Built-in Airport Extreme Wi-Fi (based on IDDD 8'2.11n draft spec), built-in bluetooth 2.1 +EDR (enhanced data rate) module |
| Win Vista Home Premium with $29 rebate coupon for Win7 | Built in Apple apps? |
| 3x USB 2.' ports [ firewire??? ] | 2 USB 2.' ports (up to 48'mps), 1 firewire 8'' (up to 8''mps) |
| carrying case, 2.' MP web video camera | built-in iSight camera, mini display port output port with support for DVI, VGA and dual link DVI (requires adapters, separately) |
| 1 year limited warranty | 1 year limited warranty |
NJHeart2Heart Dawn
