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Hi,
I am currently looking for a new laptop and the Samsung netbooks seem to be ticking the right boxes so far. This forum is nudging me alone towards one as a form of support 🙂
One thing I’ve not seen much though is people using it for anything more then word processing/internet.
I will need to manage pictures on this laptop, which means a bit of editing and playing around, (I’m most familiar with photoshop) whilst not as resource hungry as video editing, I personally don’t see it being a big problem on the NC10.
Anyway to the question! Is the NC10 appropriate for image editing in terms of power and screen size? Or am I best off getting a bigger laptop?
Thanks very much.
In terms of power the NC10 is appropriate but in my opinion the screen is way to small in both physical and resolution to handle a toolbox heavy application such as Photoshop.
Just imagine you have to edit Photos on a 10.2″ Screen @ 1024x600px while 30% of the screen is plastered with Toolboxes and the Photoshop Menus… Ouch.
Just my 2 cents.
That’s a good point about the menu’s they do drop down into the centre of the earth. Maybe the NC20 is the best choice for me.
I won’t be doing images everyday though, so it isn’t THE most important aspect, decisions decisions…
I don’t see any netbook as a lappie replacement TBH; it’s an adjunct. If photo editing is a big deal then I’d go for something with a bigger screen.
I have to agree with the above, the size of the screen is normally the limiting factor for me. Which is nice is some respects as I haven’t found processing power to be a problem!
Small screens are obviously a necessity of ultra portable PCs so there isn’t much to say really! You just need to have a think about priorities 🙂
Perhaps you won’t mind that the screen is small and will be happy to work like that – only you can really answer that one :)! Can you go and have a look instore or on a friends – that might be the best way to check it out. For quick edits on the move it might be fine, I think you might not enjoy a “long session” of editing though.
I tried Lightroom on the NC10 but found the screen a little small for anything but general viewing of images. I now use the freeware Photoscape (http://www.photoscape.org) for basic cropping, scaling etc.
I don’t think I’ll be doing anything major, mainly the cropping sort of thing. I had a thought of carrying a full photoshop style program on a USB stick and then I can do heavy image editing on a borrowed PC or internet cafe.
I think I’m trying to make excuses to just buy an NC10 now 🙂 Will see if I can pop into a shop and play with one soon to help make my decision
I use my NC10 with photoshop 6 works just perfect all edit windows and edit tools fit the screen also the picture edits are fast as I have the 2GB memory upgrade fitted . CS 3 was loaded but that was stupid some edit windows would not fit the screen, Anyhow my NC10 is used to edit my pictures on location and then I transmit the finished pics back to my picture desk in the UK. If you think the NC 10 is small for picture edits I also use as a back up an IPAQ HX 4700 PDA with pocket photo phojo which also does the same thing as photoshop but on a 3 inch screen.
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Photoshop 6 thats so… 90’s-ish… 😉I know but it works better on the NC 10 for me than CS 3. Try out CS 3 or 4 on your NC 10 and see how some of the edit windows dont fit the screen. good luck..
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