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My last notebook purchase was the Lenovo X-250 which has the i5 processor, 8GB RAM, 256 SSD, Windows 7 Pro, two USB 3 ports, 1GB Ethernet port, SD card reader, 802.11 wireless. It also has the Lenovo/IBM keyboard which is the best one you can buy - much better than the Apple laptop keyboards.
A drawback to the Apple laptops is the very pricey RAM and the weight with the standard notebooks with their metal cases. I also want the ports to be standard and not require some special adapter which is a PITA when traveling.
Battery life with the Lenovo X250 is frankly amazing. I regularly get 12 hours of use on a battery charge.
I would never put image files on the drive of a netbook. Far better to leave them on the flash cards until you get home. If I wanted to have a duplicate copy of all my files I would use a mirrored USB 3 set of hard drives like the two 2TB drives in the LaCie Rugged or go to an external SSD drives which cost under $150 for 512GB of storage as with the Lenovo that is 3 x 2.4 x 0.9 inches in size and sells for $134. The Lenovo at 512GB will hold roughly 11,200 D810 RAW files or more than enough for a very long trip.
With a netbook with an internal SD reader for the SD cards or using a USB 3 port and CF card reader to upload data to an external USB 3 SSD drive I have a viable setup that will work with any laptop, netbook, or desktop computer.
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