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Anybody using AUS EEE PC
Marvin Gentry, Photographer
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Birmingham | AL | USA | Posted: 10:43 PM on 02.24.08 |
| ->> Is anyone using the Asus EEE PC . If so what programs are you able to run on it and how good does it work to send from the field. |
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Rod Leland, Student/Intern
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Lethbridge | AB | Canada | Posted: 1:06 AM on 02.25.08 |
->> Hey Marvin,
The EEE, while pretty capable, is probably not the best and most reliable choice for transmitting from the field. especially If you are going to be editing photos before transmitting. The processor is really not fast enough to edit big files, and with only 8 GB of internal storage possible, you would have to likely drag around a hard drive with you as well, taking away from the portability. Color proofing would be tough as well with such a small low quality, low resolution screen.
For super-portability look into the Apple Macbook Air and the Lenovo Thinkpad X300. Both are certainly capable enough to capture, edit, and transmit the photos you need with ease without sacrificing all that much. |
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Gil Batzri, Photographer, Assistant
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Oakland | CA | USA | Posted: 2:06 AM on 02.25.08 |
| ->> Have a look at the HP 2510p as well. We just got some of those at my real job and they look nice. Small, reasonable screen, and the new low voltage chip. plus the HP has a built in optical drive. |
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Marvin Gentry, Photographer
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Birmingham | AL | USA | Posted: 12:18 PM on 02.25.08 |
| ->> The computer ya'll are mentioning are great. I have a desktop and a laptop. but looking for somithing smaller like this computer for super fast transmitting. with the weight under 2 lbs you can carry it anywhere. SO are there any users of this laptop??? |
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Paul Stackhouse, Photographer
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Cary | NC | USA | Posted: 10:00 PM on 02.26.08 |
->> The Samsung NP-Q1 Ultra UMPC looks interesting. It weighs 1.5 lbs and has a 60gb hard drive. Buy.com has it on sale for $699 after rebate, but it is temporarily sold out (http://tinyurl.com/2jm5z5).
Some specs:
- 7"Wide WSVGA 1024 x 600 Resolution, Touch Screen LCD
- Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium Operating System
- Integrated split-QWERTY keypad
- Intel 800MHz Ultra Mobile Processor
- High Resolution Video/Still Camera & Video Chat WebCam
- 802.11b/g WiFi, Bluetooth v2.0 |
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David Lipnowski, Photographer
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Winnipeg | MB | Canada | Posted: 10:48 PM on 02.26.08 |
->> Hey Marvin,
I don't own one (yet), but am looking into it for the same reasons as you have stated. I'm trying one out later in the week with GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/), to see how it handles D300 files.
Alternatives to the lack of HD space are to edit off the memory card, and save files to the tiny HD. You can also add a large SD card to the built in slot to expand it. I've read that newegg.com had 16GB SD's on sale for $40 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211245), they are now $57, but still not bad having a 20GB HD laptop that takes very little space in a camera bag (heck my macbook Pro powerbrick probably weights about the same as the unit itself). newegg also had a 2GB RAM stick for $40 that supposedly fit.
David |
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