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: www.reelifeproductions.com PORTAL: http://web.mac.com/reelifeproductions SAMPLES: 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/20061205/edbc44e4/attachment-0005.html