Thread: I should've done this earlier!

is it possible to hook up an external harddisk to an iPad?

Chuck...one solution would be to just have enough memory cards when you go on holiday and leave the processing until you get home.

also, it's not fair to compare a decked out Mac to middling PCs. Perhaps someone who isn't a cheerleader for one platform over the over and really has experience with both can out in their 2 cents. I have an el cheapo laptop that I've been using problem free for 3 years and runs photoshop fine. My one and only Apple laptop died after the 2 year warranty and cost twice as much to begin with. I don't need the greatest machine, but a good value.

Luke, thanks. I try to carry enough cards with me and I haven't run into that limitation yet. My kids and now grandkids like the instant gratification of seeing images the same day they're taken and posting some of them on Flickr and/or Facebook. Some double handling, at least with the iPad, is inevitable. And, of course the issue of having backups rears its head.

Agree with you in value being important part of the equation. I'm not likely to invest in a MacBook any time soon.

For my holiday needs I use a netbook with a 10" 1356x768 screen. It's not perfect but it runs FastStone Image Viewer which will let me preview all my RAW files and I can copy the images from the cards to the harddrive for backup. And of course it lets me browse the interweb and watch movies and what have you not.

Originally Posted by Chris2500dk

For my holiday needs I use a netbook with a 10" 1356x768 screen. It's not perfect but it runs FastStone Image Viewer which will let me preview all my RAW files and I can copy the images from the cards to the harddrive for backup. And of course it lets me browse the interweb and watch movies and what have you not.

That's my exact solution .....plus I use the Netbook to keep in touch with loved ones back at home....beats watching cable in US hotels

10/10 points for Faststone as a Lite image viewer. Always amazed how it beats LR to the punch with viewing RAW files (had to wait for ages with my X100 but Faststone already had the file read the day I had the cam). A great little program indeed...

Originally Posted by Luke

also, it's not fair to compare a decked out Mac to middling PCs. Perhaps someone who isn't a cheerleader for one platform over the over and really has experience with both can out in their 2 cents. I have an el cheapo laptop that I've been using problem free for 3 years and runs photoshop fine. My one and only Apple laptop died after the 2 year warranty and cost twice as much to begin with. I don't need the greatest machine, but a good value.

Luke, what I was trying to say was that I couldn't make a judgment for exactly the reason you give: I had a series of beer PC's with a champagne Mac as a chaser. If I implied I believed Mac was fundamentally superior to PC, that was unintended; I have no basis for making that comparison.

Chuck, I wasn't pointing fingers. It just seems the Mac guys are quick to prop up the holy Mac brand, but I think if you compare like-priced machines there probably isn't much difference. But that is an uninformed guess and should be treated as such. To me they are just tools.....and unexciting ones at that. Cameras get me excited...computers are just a place I store and work on my photos.

Originally Posted by Luke

Chuck, I wasn't pointing fingers. It just seems the Mac guys are quick to prop up the holy Mac brand, but I think if you compare like-priced machines there probably isn't much difference. But that is an uninformed guess and should be treated as such. To me they are just tools.....and unexciting ones at that. Cameras get me excited...computers are just a place I store and work on my photos.

Agree with you there! I'm not a Mac guy; I'm a guy who happens to have a Mac. Last year, I was a guy with a PC. The only "Holy" I associate with the Mac brand is the epithet I whispered under my breath when I saw the all-in cost: "Holy S___!"

I try to be brand agnostic.....whoever gives me the best product for the money (that I'm willing to spend....and that varies depending on my interest on the particular widget I'm buying) gets my business.

Even with my 27" iMac from 2011 (with 6 gigs of RAM), running LR4 on it has been blah at best. I haven't upgraded to 4.1 yet.

The new MacBookPro with retina display and superthin (and lighter) body looks really nice!!