Has anyone used these smaller laptops for editing photos on long trips or travel abroad? If not editing for storing with larger external drives? Planning a extended trip to Asia, just trying to avoid my 15 inch laptop (weight). Tks
My brother has a Dell Mini with 9" (I think) display. I don't think the screens are good enough to really edit finished work for color. Also, check actual pixels on screen for compatibility with planned applications. But, just to review photos, label and organize it might work well ... just check screen size and order a higher resolution option (if it is available).
There are two types of these devices. Netbooks, which use low power precessors, likje the Atom and true sub-notebooks that use dual core processors. The latter will be fine. I use a Fujitsu P1620 (8.9" screen 1.2 Core 2 Duo and 1280 x 800 screen) and it's not lightning, but it works well enough for lihght editing. It's fantastic for viewing, culling and sorting though. I do all my keywords etc while away and then do the real work when I'm back home.
Netbooks stuggle with any editing. I've had a couple and they frustrated me for any editing at all. You also need to get the higher resolution screen as many of the imaging programs need a minimum of 1024x768 to even run.
When I travel I carry two 500GB external drives. I backup cards on to both drives and then reuse.
Adding my previous post from another thread on this just for completeness:
I have an Acer 8.9 inch, 1 gig, 160 meg. Bought 2+ weeks ago as a refurb for $220.
It has completely replaced my 15.4 inch laptop at home. Bought a RAM upgrade - not installed yet, this maxes out at 1.5 gig, most are 2.
Have not tried to run images on it yet. If you shoot RAW+JPEG and use something like BreezeBrowser, which is very quick, you should have no problem.
Small, I don't think you could really edit much. But review, store, and archive to an external hard drive (USB) - no problem!
I am 100% going to take this thing on any trip instead of the larger ones I have been lugging for 5+ years (cheaper than the storage devices back then.)
