Computer advice requested

[amalventano1 at tds.net (Allyn)]

Since you said durability, I'd go the Panasonic Toughbook route.  The only task needing specific specs would be the digital darkroom
stuff, and for that I'd recommend 1gb of ram in whatever it is that you get.  Skip the 'cheap now, expensive later' idea and just
get a good toughbook right off the bat.  Modern laptops are powerful enough to double as desktop machines, at least for your
purposes.

Side note - invest in an external hard drive for backups - and USE IT for backups ONLY.  Never trust the system drive with the only
copy of your photos.

HTH
Al 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: C Boyko [mailto:roccit_53@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 10:44 PM
> To: scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: OT: Computer advice requested
> 
> Okay, I've got a really old laptop that eventually I'm going 
> to have to replace. I think what I'll do is buy a new but 
> inexpensive laptop for use running MS and to do school stuff 
> like recording marks, and later get something that is better 
> for manipulating digital still images (perhaps a desktop), I 
> still do not know the digital darkroom well, but am already 
> frustrated at the slowness of shuffling 10Mpixel files around 
> on this machine. The only other things I'd need a machine for 
> would be simple word processing and running iTunes, just to 
> load music files onto my iPod shuffle. I have no need of 
> anything fancy for gaming or video, and probably don't need 
> to burn DVDs. Likely a really basic machine will be more than 
> what I need. SO...what am I looking at as far as specs? And 
> what are your suggestions as far as durability goes? It'll 
> get banged around a bit getting in and out of the car I 
> imagine and I'm pretty sick of wrenching on my old Latitude 
> and would prefer something not prone to breaking.
> Durability is probably more important than features.
> 
> If you have any sites like "buying a computer for Dummies" or 
> anyplace that's good to buy from, LMK. Thanks. (you can 
> contact me offlist)
> 
> And Dan, could you post about that error message with the .bat file? 
> 
> Cathy
> 
> 
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