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| r1chmi3n |
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So as I'm becoming more serious about turning photography into a career, I want to acquire a comperable laptop or desktop (mac or pc) so that I may develop and tweak photos in a semi-professional level. I'm still new to everything, aside from still-life, event, and even low-light shooting, and I would love to hear what my fellow-photogs use for all their photo needs. I currently do not have a working computer, but I was previously using a Gateway T-series laptop that was very basic in terms of processing, speed, memory, and graphics (integrated FTMFL). I want to move up to something much better, like a MacBook Pro 17 inch with 2.8GHz and 4GB memory, but I'm beginning to feel that is overkill at this stage in development. Please let me in on some of your own experiences and advice on a comparable computer to process studio-quality images for a budget-bending student.
P.S. I'm willing to do photoshoots for anyone needing exposure! Help me get my name out. =D |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 8:08 pm |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 10:17 pm |
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| go to Frys electronics. lol. my friend says he saw some HP for like 800. pretty fast and it looks nice. |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 1:36 am |
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| I've been a PC guy since as long I can remember, but either the PC or Mac would be a good choice I believe but Mac more pricey relatively to PC's. Just check slickdeals.net for daily deals on Laptops... they always have atleast 1 or 2 laptops on sale a week. |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 11:31 am |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 8:04 am |
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I just got in contact with my good friend again. He works for some Laptop company. Just last week he showed me a Laptop that he'd sell me for $200. He asked me to spread the word and help give him some business. I'm sure not all Laptops would be that cheap, but could almost say they'd be alot cheaper than Fry's or BestBuy.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 8:09 am |
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| Mac or Lenovo....everything else is garbage with a nice glossy finish (like HP). |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 1:27 am |
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| my vaio never failed me. very durable and sturdy, also very nice computers ^_^ love mine very much. |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 3:39 pm |
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| Az_MeGaMaN wrote: | | my vaio never failed me. very durable and sturdy, also very nice computers ^_^ love mine very much. |
Is that the one we played L4D on? |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 4:31 pm |
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| r1chmi3n wrote: | | Az_MeGaMaN wrote: | | my vaio never failed me. very durable and sturdy, also very nice computers ^_^ love mine very much. |
Is that the one we played L4D on? |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 6:49 am |
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Im a photog as well. I would strongly suggest a macbook pro. you can go used for around 800.
THis is by far THE best for photo editing.
Just buy cs4 and Light room and your set! |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:59 am |
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| palmersnow wrote: | Im a photog as well. I would strongly suggest a macbook pro. you can go used for around 800.
THis is by far THE best for photo editing.
Just buy cs4 and Light room and your set! |
if your gonna be using those two programs, any decent computer would be fine lol. but then again i play with both and i love PC and Mac lol >__> |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 11:20 am |
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| AnDuHH wrote: | | go to Frys electronics. lol. my friend says he saw some HP for like 800. pretty fast and it looks nice. |
screw frys. they dont know chit. |
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