Good morning,
I need some advice please.
My wife and I are going to California for three weeks.
I'm a very keen photographer.
Just thinking about what I'll do with the gazillion images I will no doubt shoot there, I am convinced I need to buy a laptop to do some initial selection and processing while still on the road.
Currently, I'm using a work laptop - I am not allowed to install any non-work software on it.
I'm torn between a Surface Pro 4/i5/4Gb/128 and a Surface Pro 3/i5/8/256 which I can get relatively cheaply on eBay.
I've got one of those 2TB hard drives which can backup directly from an SD card, so storage will not be an issue.
Whichever laptop I buy will get sold on after the trip - I don't need a work laptop AND a personal laptop.
I use Fuji. I only shoot RAW - Fuji's RAW files are quite large.
At home, I use Lightroom/Nik mostly, but my machine at home is an i7/16Gb affair, and I'm not sure how well Lightroom will behave on Surface's limited resources. So I'm willing to give RawTherapee or similar a try if needs be.
I do NOT want a Mac.
Any advice?
Which would you prefer, - a newer processor with less RAM and a better screen (i.e., Surface Pro 4) or an older processor with double the RAM and still a very good screen (i.e., Surface Pro 3)?
Thank you.
I need some advice please.
My wife and I are going to California for three weeks.
I'm a very keen photographer.
Just thinking about what I'll do with the gazillion images I will no doubt shoot there, I am convinced I need to buy a laptop to do some initial selection and processing while still on the road.
Currently, I'm using a work laptop - I am not allowed to install any non-work software on it.
I'm torn between a Surface Pro 4/i5/4Gb/128 and a Surface Pro 3/i5/8/256 which I can get relatively cheaply on eBay.
I've got one of those 2TB hard drives which can backup directly from an SD card, so storage will not be an issue.
Whichever laptop I buy will get sold on after the trip - I don't need a work laptop AND a personal laptop.
I use Fuji. I only shoot RAW - Fuji's RAW files are quite large.
At home, I use Lightroom/Nik mostly, but my machine at home is an i7/16Gb affair, and I'm not sure how well Lightroom will behave on Surface's limited resources. So I'm willing to give RawTherapee or similar a try if needs be.
I do NOT want a Mac.
Any advice?
Which would you prefer, - a newer processor with less RAM and a better screen (i.e., Surface Pro 4) or an older processor with double the RAM and still a very good screen (i.e., Surface Pro 3)?
Thank you.