davidschumaker Posted June 12, 2009 Share #1 Posted June 12, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Does anyone have experience with netbook computers for travel as a storage and preview device for images? I use a MacBook at home and love the idea of a very small light device for travel use. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Tenor1 Posted June 12, 2009 Share #2 Posted June 12, 2009 We got the Acer-1 with a 160 gb hard drive just for this purpose and have a MacBook at home. The Acer is very nice to use and I recommend getting a small cordless mouse to use with it. We enjoy viewing the pictures on the slide-show feature. Unfortunately, the Acer does not have any type of disc drive for watching DVD's but has wireless internet connection if available to you in some hotels. The unit is so small and light I use it as a real laptop computer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overgaard Posted June 12, 2009 Share #3 Posted June 12, 2009 I use a MacBook plus this LaCie - Little Disk, Design by Sam Hecht - FireWire & Hi-Speed USB 2.0 The disk has cable built-in and get it's power supply from the MacBook. In worst case, get a MacBook Air that weights and fills nothing. Not quite fast enough for loads of Lightroom work on the road, but OK for PS. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenor1 Posted June 12, 2009 Share #4 Posted June 12, 2009 The LaCie certainly is beautiful and very portable. Does it directly read from the SD card or via a cable? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overgaard Posted June 12, 2009 Share #5 Posted June 12, 2009 Has to go via the computer. But I anyways always have a MacBook with me for e-mails, addresses, ftp, etc so I usually download to computer, then make a backup onto the LaCie disk. I tried once shooting in London for some days, edited and delivered, then came home and the harddrive in the MacBook died. Lots of trouble getting the final shots in copy from London, and never got them all. Since then, always a backup done immediately there's a break. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ampguy Posted June 15, 2009 Share #6 Posted June 15, 2009 I have a couple of Asus 900HA's with 160GB drives. Don't really preview or edit on them, as the screens and keyboards are ultra cheezy, but I've retired my dedicated SD card storage devices and use these for multiple backups. Does anyone have experience with netbook computers for travel as a storage and preview device for images? I use a MacBook at home and love the idea of a very small light device for travel use. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kully Posted June 15, 2009 Share #7 Posted June 15, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) The netbooks with their 1.6Ghz Atom processors are too slow to preview DNGs with any sense of quickness. I use my netbook as you describe but shooting DNG+JPG and using Breezebrowser for culling as it sees a DNG and JPG with the same name and displays the JPG as the preview for both (and the netbook can handle that fine). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
veraikon Posted June 15, 2009 Share #8 Posted June 15, 2009 I use a MSI Wind U100 derivat (160 GB, 1.6 Ghz Atom Processor, 10.1´) . you can read SDcars you can store your photos you can write your exifs (look at the jpeg - write on dng ) but don´t make any image processing - it is to slow Battery life is longer than 4.5 h - I tested it on a train ride from Karlsruhe to Salzburg, when DeutscheBahn wasn´t able to provide a plug on the seat (in a EuroCity!!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbretteville Posted June 15, 2009 Share #9 Posted June 15, 2009 Used an Asus Eee 1000H (10" screen) while in Hessenpark this week end. Worked well as a combination of image bank and image sorter. Not much computing power, but Lightroom runs, even if it is slow. The weight, size and battery time is excellent and I don't mind sacrificing speed. Had a needed a laptop for work that required speed I'd go elsewhere. - Carl Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markgay Posted June 15, 2009 Share #10 Posted June 15, 2009 Netbooks is a marketing term for low cost laptops. For that reason, you are likely to find severe shortcomings in processor power and memory. Even if you are looking for a stripped down laptop, that's one area where you cannot compromise when you are talking about raw files. Disk space is the slightest consideration since you can always add an external drive. Add up everything you have to give up with a low cost laptop, then add in what you still need, and you are likely to find yourself happier with a small Macbook or a laptop from someone like Lenovo who will provide a nice fresh copy of Windows XP. Regards, Mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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