New laptop question?

[bassgreg]

I am looking to purchase a laptop so I can do some editing while I sitting at the pool while my daughter is at swim team practice, might as well use the time to work on the annual year end slide show. Currently I have Dell XPS desktop and it has been wonderful to edit with, I have had no issues with its performance with PE3. But I am just not that familiar with laptops. Is anyone running PE3 on a laptop? Any performance issues? Does anyone have any suggestions on Laptop specs I should look for? Should I just try and match my desktop spec's? I have looked at Chucks article on video in a snap, it is a good start but it is getting a little dated.

Thanks,

Greg

[Don Whitten]

I am using a Asus laptop for all my editing. Core2 duo T7200 with 1.5 gig ram and a 100 gig 7200rpm hard drive. Windows XP Pro. No problems at all. I couple it with a Western Digital 500 gig extrenal hard drive.
It is nice to be able to take it with me and do my editing.

[Chuck Engels]

I have a new Dell Latitude D820 that works great

[Steve Grisetti]

Just remember, with laptops, however, you tend to get about half as much technology for the same price as a desktop.

In other words, you can get a good, state of the art desktop for about $700-800. But a similarly rigged laptop might cost you upwards of $1300-1500.

It's, unfortunately, the cost of portability.

[Cinde]

I'm following this thread with great interest.

I only need to be portable enough to scan photos in my clients' businesses and homes.

Steve has just answered my question.

[Chuck Engels]

Cinde,
We bought my daughter a laptop that will run Photoshop Elements and a scanner with no problems, $325.00 brand new including tax. It won't do video and doesn't have a DVD Writer or Firewire but if all you want to do is scan photos you can get a laptop pretty cheap, the scanner might cost you more

[William Tranter]

I use my Sony Vaio SZ-1XP (Core Duo and 100Gig HDD, double layer DVD recorder/player, fingerprint reader, video camera at top of screen, and which came with Premiere Elements 2 and Photoshop Elements 4 already installed) when my wife and I are away in our caravan. The screen is very crowded trying to do video editing, though with care it CAN be done, but for downloading digital images from a camera it is great - by doing this every night I keep Maisie's camera clear of images, I can edit them (brightness, contrast, rotation, etc) with no problems, and I usually type up a daily journal of what we've been doing, dropping in some of Maisie's photographs as required. By doing this as we travel around, this saves me a huge amount of time and work when we return home. All I have to do is print it out for (a) ourselves, and (b) a couple of copies for the family over in Australia, and the job is done!
Brilliant!
Hope this helps, even though you were asking about PE3,
Bill