laptops

Firstly, apologies if this is the wrong area to post about this.

Im looking for a laptop to edit photo etc, use of the net and storage of photos. Can anybody give me any ideas what i should be looking for.

Thanks

Depending on your price range?
I say MacBook or MacBook Pro. And now with CS3 if you use Photoshop it's a lovely combo.

next!

whatever system you buy get a core 2 duo processo, 2 gigs of ram, and perferably a 7200rpm hard drive.

Yeah, the bottleneck in any laptop is centered upon the read/write speed of the disk drive(s).

I like Macs, so no flames, but they put slow hard drives (5400 RPM in most, but not all, cases) into their machines presumably to conserve battery. Sadly, even a 7200 RPM drive, in a laptop form factor, is slow compared to the larger versions.

So other than the coolness factor, do you need the portability? Processing digital images consumes machines. As mentioned, a minimum of 2GB RAM is needed or you go into swapping and this = your machine dies.

So you should first decide what Operating System you prefer, or already own applicaitons for, etc. Then shop for the most processing (quad core is the latest thing), and the most RAM, and the most storage you can afford.

I like the form factor of laptops, I own and use a couple purely for travel work, but they are far from the best device for processing images - and they are not the best price/performance by a long shot. And yes I own a Mac, but I use XP and Linux far more. And over time I may use Linux exclusively due to the rapid evolution of Open Source applications and the fact the Operating System (Ubuntu) is <free>.

regards,

patrick