digital photo storage

[fred13]

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Hi: Looking for a notebook or laptop to load digital pictures while traveling. Need a large hard drive and a CD burner. Other sophistication not needed.

Your suggestions are welcomed.

Fred13

 

[rexinre]

What size pictures are you looking to download? I have a Dell with a 55 gig HD and haven't filled it in the least bit!

 

[Echo_]

id would go with an apple or a dell.
if your gonna do any photo editing and stuff apples are pretty good
Dell, well i just like em for pc.
Also if you wanna do a lotta editing and stuff i recomend adobe photoshop very good

 

[computerdude2004]

I would recommend Photoshop as well. Don't use an Apple if you plan on connecting your computer to a lot of PC's. Windows doesn't recognize anything that is Macintosh, or Apple OS.

 

[Praetor]

Well if no sophistication is needed ... just get the cheapest notebook you can find that's at least a Pentium3 ... and upgrade the harddrive ... everything else is USBish anyways

 

[rexinre]

Well if no sophistication is needed ... just get the cheapest notebook you can find that's at least a Pentium3 ... and upgrade the harddrive ... everything else is USBish anyways

I agree here!

 

[Praetor]

Or forget that, my bad, a more effective strategy would be to make use of firewire/usb2! Buy yourself a nice 7200rpm (a big change from the 5400rpm and 4800rpm on notebook drives) and put it into a drive enclosure The advantages of this system is:
- The data is not "tied" to the laptop
- A greatly improved drive performance even with the drop of USB2/Firewire (do not that you dont need to buy an 8MB drive, 2MB cache will suffice because you'll be capped by the USB2/Firewire interface)
- Even if your laptop doesnt have the USB2/Firewire ports you can always add them via PCMCIA cards ... all in all you're savin money