Dear Tom, Your response came in the nick of time as we are about to buy a new laptop for our business to develop portable slideshows, make and distribute our own promotional dvd's and electronic newsletters, and just do a better job with print graphics. However, we will probably need to share files (and certainly printers) with our Dell desktops. Any thoughts on compatibility? The ads say they have solved the compatibility issue. 'Zat true? Joan and Steve Stoia, Innkeepers Centennial House B&B and Conference Center 94 Main St., Northfield, MA 01360 On the web: <http://www.thecentennialhouse.com/> www.thecentennialhouse.com Email: <mailto:info at thecentennialhouse.com> info at thecentennialhouse.com Tel: 413.498.5921, 877.977.5950 Fax: 413.498.2525 _____ From: hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net [mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of Tom/Reelife Productions Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 11:29 AM To: Hidden Tech Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] looking for recommendations for graphics PC Reva, If your husband is doing creative work, there's nothing that beats an Apple (I'm very familiar with both platforms). For a laptop, I would highly recommend the MacBook Pro (http://www.apple.com/macbookpro). I'm convinced it's the best (laptop) computer the world has to offer. If you already have a nice monitor and want something other than a laptop I would suggest the mac mini (http://www.apple.com/macmini). It's a fantastically amazing little white square-thingy than has a really fast dual processor, can burn dvds/cds and comes with the amazing iLife (itunes, iphoto, idvd, iweb, imovie) software package...(I bought my parents one for christmas) and I'm not even an apple representative...but I'm thinking about it :} let me know if you have more questions. I'd love to help you make the "switch". Regards, Tom Adams Director/Owner Reelife Documentary Productions using today's technology to educate, entertain & enlighten "cool digital video stuff...not boring or dumb" 413.575.9707, Williamsburg, MA, USA MAIN SITE: <http://www.reelifeproductions.com/> www.reelifeproductions.com PORTAL: <http://web.mac.com/reelifeproductions> <http://web.mac.com/reelifeproductions> http://web.mac.com/reelifeproductions SAMPLES: <http://web.mac.com/reelifeproductions/iWeb/sample_videos> http://web.mac.com/reelifeproductions/iWeb/videosamples http://www.youtube.com/reelife On Dec 4, 2006, at 8:48 PM, Reva Reck wrote: ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee. ** You too can help the group ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. ** If you did, we all thank you. Hi all, My husband is a photographer & needs a new PC. He has a good monitor, which he'll be keeping. I'm used to spec-ing out business PC's, but don't know much about the requirements of programs like photoshop, or digital camera interface software. Anybody have any recommendations? Does a laptop make any sense? We can't get anything better than satellite where we live, so I was thinking that for big uploads he could go somewhere with reasonable internet access speeds if he had a laptop. This may well be a gift, so if you know him, don't mention this posting! TIA, Reva -- ________________________________ Reva Reck (978) 544-3911 reva at revareck.com _______________________________________________ Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members page on the Hidden Tech Web site. http://www.hidden-tech.net/members -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20061206/3c74460a/attachment.html