Oh Winsor - I'm surprised to hear your remarks about the power of that
desktop configuration. I'd be very interested if you could point me to
anything laptop-ish of comparable/better performance at a price that would
allow me to add a decent 2nd monitor. I do like the idea of having a second
screen for the palettes.
cheers
Jez
On Nov 15, 2007 7:34 PM, Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Generally a desktop is cheaper, more powerful and will last longer.
> Some modestly priced desktops offer quad processing and the ability to
> upgrade when things change. For instance I added a better video card
> and a USB card to my old PowerMac somewhere along the way. That said,
> one computer is cheaper and easier to keep track of than two. The spec
> of the desktop you are looking at is not much better than a decent
> laptop. So there would be little advantage to it.
>
> With the laptop you could get by with a good, but modestly sized and
> priced plug in display. Put your Photoshop tools on the laptop screen
> and just the image on the separate display. Add a wireless keyboard
> and mouse and you have a really easy to manage workstation for image
> post processing.
>
>
>
> Winsor
> Long Beach, California, USA
>
>
>
>
> On / November 15, 2007 CE, at 9:00 AM, Jez Cunningham wrote:
>
> > So I've been perusing what's out there and ended up looking at Dell
> > (again):
> > Inspiron 530, 2.33Ghz E6550 core 2 duo / viiv, 2GB (with slots to go
> > to 4),
> > 320GB or more (plus space for 2nd HDD), and a 22" wide LCD driven by
> > 256kB
> > nvidia card. £675 / €1000 is the rough ticket (incl 17.5% UK vat).
> >
> > My reasoning for going desktop rather than laptop is based on ease of
> > upgrade (e.g. price of RAM), space for a couple of HDD and DVD
> > drives, it'll
> > never get moved (I've got an adequate laptop for travel if
> > necesary), and a
> > big screen, graphic tablet, full keyboard, etc. But many of you use
> > laptops
> > or Mac powerbooks - can they really compete in this area?
>
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