Laptop for 5D mark 2 RAW files

im going to college this fall and will be taking my 5D mark 2 with me. im only going to have a laptop as my only computer and i want it to be able to handle the 5D2 RAW files nicely. any suggestions on a laptop that will be able to do this. other features i want are decent battery life (4-6 hours). thanks guys!

dip wrote in post #10616529
im going to college this fall and will be taking my 5D mark 2 with me. im only going to have a laptop as my only computer and i want it to be able to handle the 5D2 RAW files nicely. any suggestions on a laptop that will be able to do this. other features i want are decent battery life (4-6 hours). thanks guys!

Unless you use an extended batter NO laptop will allow you to do heavy work for 4-6 hours.

You need something greater than a 2GHz Core2Duo - that will suffice for the 5D MK II, I'm on a 2,5GHz Core2Duo.

Ideally you'd go for an i5 or i7 though => newer architecture.

If you can afford it, the Vaio Z is a great little choice - it has a pretty good screen too.

Ideally ask here for notebook question:
http://forum.notebookr​eview.com/
Using the FAQ: http://forum.notebookr​eview.com …-read-before-posting.html

alright thanks. i didnt really mean 4-6 hours of image processing. i meant 4-6 hours in general. any more suggestions?

dip wrote in post #10617950
alright thanks. i didnt really mean 4-6 hours of image processing. i meant 4-6 hours in general. any more suggestions?

Z with an extended battery should do that - not sure about the normal one.
On the older SZ (which I have) I originally got 4,5hours out of 80%...

But on the small expensive side the Z is the only one that springs to mind - it has a pretty good screen too.

how much is your budget? alienware? haha M15x...

15in MacBook Pro! It will powerhouse through you're images, amazing high res screen and 8 hours of battery life. Well honestly you can get like 5-7.5 really using it.

dip wrote in post #10616529
im going to college this fall and will be taking my 5D mark 2 with me. im only going to have a laptop as my only computer and i want it to be able to handle the 5D2 RAW files nicely. any suggestions on a laptop that will be able to do this. other features i want are decent battery life (4-6 hours). thanks guys!

Any of the MacBook Pros will serve your needs.

DetlevCM wrote in post #10617322
Unless you use an extended batter NO laptop will allow you to do heavy work for 4-6 hours.

Sure you can. A MacBook Pro will go that long with a little to spare.

Tony-S wrote in post #10618956
Any of the MacBook Pros will serve your needs.

Sure you can. A MacBook Pro will go that long with a little to spare.

You won't get the advertised battery life out of any laptop - doesn't matter what name it has or whether it has an apple on it that's starting to rot.

Light usage - yes, Vaio Z - or the G series originally got even up to 10 hours - my SZ got 4-4,5 hours from an 80% charge when I still had my HDD (SSD needs less energy).

But NO laptop will get much more when used heavily as in Photo editing.

And my light use was generally web browsing - reading the news, some Excel, VBA script in Excel and word.

DetlevCM wrote in post #10623372
You won't get the advertised battery life out of any laptop - doesn't matter what name it has or whether it has an apple on it that's starting to rot.

Sure you can from a MacBook Pro. It's been verified by many people, including AnandTech. Apple advertises 8 hours and that's what you get, even a little more.

Photo editing isn't that taxing on batteries. You want to use a battery in a hurry, run any Flash animation. Flash junk is electric drain.

Tony-S wrote in post #10631712
Photo editing isn't that taxing on batteries. You want to use a battery in a hurry, run any Flash animation. Flash junk is electric drain.

Ah the magic energy sucking properties of flash

Battery consumption is dependent on power requirements of the hardware which is dependent on the processing requirements of the software.

Running a complex flash game on my PC cranks the CPU usage up to around 15%.
Editing photos easily takes it to 100%.

Guess which one is going to require the most power?

I get about 5-7 hrs of life out of my i7 MBP on average. Editing photos maybe 3.5 hrs unless I turn the brightness down. The problem is the video switching - it really sucks down the battery. Little flash games are not my problem. It's the movies that push the CPU up into the 40-60's most of the time.

There are not many PCs that get past 3 hrs and those that do are typically expensive or have extra large batteries that stick out in some way.

i just bough a 15in i5 MBP and it handles my 5DMKII photos perfectly and fast!!

it was expensive though

Moppie wrote in post #10633880
Ah the magic energy sucking properties of flash

Battery consumption is dependent on power requirements of the hardware which is dependent on the processing requirements of the software.

Running a complex flash game on my PC cranks the CPU usage up to around 15%.
Editing photos easily takes it to 100%.

Guess which one is going to require the most power?

So true

I really wonder how someone can claim running a CPU at 100% (at least to "decode" the RAW) isn't taxing the computer.
If ruinning the CPU at 100% isn't what is?

my budget will be around 2000. i'd really like a mac because we have 4 of them at home right now, but some of the programs that i will be running for school will be windows only. i dont want have to bootcamp or run a VM all the time. i dont think its worth it.

thanks for all of the suggestions guys! i might go for a vaio F (the 16 inch one) with i7 quad, 8 gigs of ram and an ssd or an hp envy with the same config. still considering the MBPro, but i doubt that im going to get one. thanks!

dip wrote in post #10635926
my budget will be around 2000. i'd really like a mac because we have 4 of them at home right now, but some of the programs that i will be running for school will be windows only. i dont want have to bootcamp or run a VM all the time. i dont think its worth it.

thanks for all of the suggestions guys! i might go for a vaio F (the 16 inch one) with i7 quad, 8 gigs of ram and an ssd or an hp envy with the same config. still considering the MBPro, but i doubt that im going to get one. thanks!

The Vaios have become very nicely priced recently - at 2000$ also have a look at the Z - just a dual core i7, but at 13,1" and 1,43kg might be worth it