Re: Can I edit photos on a low-end laptop?
- From: Bob Williams <mytbobnospam@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:02:00 -0700
Peabody wrote:
It's a long story, but I don't read small print so well. So I use a CRT monitor with my desktop computer and run it at 800x600. (When I try to do that with an LCD monitor, it looks like shit. Something about a digital display needing to run at it's native resolution. Adjusting DPI helps, but then things don't always fit.
Anyway, the color, temperature, contrast, etc. on the CRT I keep a good ways away from normal, on purpose, because it's easier to read that way, so I definitely don't want to edit with it.
But I have a little two-year-old Toshiba laptop that I use occasionally, and of course it has a pretty normal LCD screen. But, it uses a Celeron 1500 processor and has 512M of RAM. I can easily add more RAM, but only to 1GB. But if I do that, could I reasonably use something like Photoscape to edit with? Or would it just be unbearably slow?
I'm really new to digital photography, and I doubt I'll be doing a large volume of editing. So I thought if I could get away with using the laptop to edit, then pictures I send out would look right to others with normal monitors.
Another option is to add an inexpensive Video card to your computer and pick up a 17" CRT monitor at a local thrift shop for $25. They usually have tons of pretty decent ones available for cheap.
That way everything stays on you present computer, you can use your "adjusted" CRT for general purpose and switch to the "thrift" monitor when using PS.......Best of all worlds.
Bob Williams
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