FAST COMPUTERS TO SHOOT INTO?

[iannnn]

yoyo people...\\

im used to using a powerbook on location with a phase back..now im shooting raw on a 1dsmk2 into cap1.. the powerbook is 1.3 processor, about a gig of ram, but i find its excruciatingly slow moving thru images and building previews.. i really hate pcs but as apple are taking forever to release the nex gen of laptops im startin to consider them..can anyone tell me if there is a pc laptop that can seriously kick the powerbooks ass??!

also...can i run cap1 on linux?...(i do not like windows!)

also, i fancy gettin a wireless transmitter for the camera and shooting into a tablet pc, which my client can easily hold + view as i shoot..are there any with a decent spec that can handle this? .......or mayb its poss to use the video out port to view images on one of these trendy 7inch-video-pod-media-things..........

has anyone got any ideas/advice...?.....or i am i right in thinkin computers just arent quite fast enough yet..!

peace an ecostuff..i

[Jon]

Canon makes a dedicated WiFi transmitter for the 1Dx MK IIs and the 20D. The higher-end tablets are probably faster than your Power Book, but not a lot of them have FireWire, so you'll need to rely on the wireless. At its best, the WFT-E1 only supports 802.11g, so right away it maxes out at 54 Mb/sec, while FireWire's 480 Mb/sec. If FireWire's the choke point rather than the CPU/memory (how does the time delay from Capture-One compare with the display/processing time for a RAW image already on your hard drive?), going wireless will certainly slow things down. Video-out may be your best bet as far as speed goes, but you'd need to stop shooting while they gawked.

If you do want to go with a PC, Toshiba's Qosimo is designed for multi-media. It's not a tablet, but it's fast (a 1.8 GHz Pentium M is on the order of a 3.+ MHz P4). It does have FireWire and WiFi.

I rather suspect you'd have to roll your own Linux solution via the Canon SDK and some reverse engineering.