Netbooks and Photoshop

[Bob Miller]

I am considering getting a Acer notebook with 160 Gb harddrive to take to Africa. Does anyone know if photoshop cs4 or lightroom will run on these. Can i edit my photos with a netbook? The screen resolution is 1024X600

[beykirch]

Hi Bob,

I have a quite similar netbook from Lenovo (9" with 160GB harddrive). For me, it is way to slow for Lightroom 2.3 with the RAWs of my EOS 5DII (it's ok with the 1DIII RAWs).

For the 5DII files I have installed the latest CaptureOne software which works fine.

Regards

Bernd

[Christopher C.M. Cooke]

My suggestion is to use Breeze Browser Pro to evaluate your photos (delete/select) and transfer them to a removable hard drive and transport them home to work on.

I have yet to come across a notebook that can handle CS3/CS4 or even Lightroom properly and in Africa other problems will beset you.

Shoot, Select and Store then work on your work in the comfort of your own home.

Bets of luck and have a ball.

[Jamie Strickland]

Bob have a look at this this thread, my experience with LR is at the bottom http://www.birdphotographers.net/for...d=1#post318432

[Bob Miller]

Thanks everyone! I got the Acer today and will probably just use it as a backup to my Epson 6000. Breeze Browser pro sound like a winner.

[Grace Scalzo]

I just bought an Acer 10.inch display net book for travel purposes. I plan to use it as Christopher suggested with Breeze browzer pro and downloader pro. Problem, when I choose an image in BB to convert, and the entire panel (that shows all the choices available when converting) is not viewable, the bottom part is not viewable, and I cannot seem to figure out how to resize or sroll down. The arrows that usually expand or contract the screen make it jump down. Any help?

[Rene A]

Hi Grace,

this is what you have to do to up the resolution of your screen so you can stroll down to preview your images:

click Control Panel.
Double-click Display
Click the Settings tab
Click Advanced
Click the Monitor tab
Click the check to remove it from Hide modes that this monitor cannot display
Click Apply
Click OK

then change the resolution to 1200x800 (move the slider over)

[Chris Brennan]

I recently purchased an HP dv2 (12.1") screen... sort of a "tweener". Small laptop, large netbook. I maxxed it out to 4 GB of RAM and it's got a 320 GB HD; installed BBPro and CS2, and it runs great, although my plan is very similar to Christopher's: do a sort via BBPro, perhaps do my RAW conversions while I sleep and then back them all up for work at home.

[Rene A]

Chris,

I had a 10" netbook and return it for
SAMSUNG NC20-21GBK VIA Nano U2250(1.3+GHz) 12.1" WXGA 1GB Memory 160GB HDD Netbook


I but 2 gig ram in it.

I tried LR (the profram is too big) & settled for Elements 7 for raw viewing sorting maybe a little tweaking & transfer to and external 500 GB hd.

I tried a lot of other proggies but Elements 7 does the job for this kind of "lite version pc" for me.

[Christopher C.M. Cooke]

Renate, never forget that wonderful "Free" program which only takes up 10mb and opens up all files including my 5D MKII RAW (you must use the Panda side of it) INFRANVIEW.

http://www.irfanview.com/

All the best
Chris