Laptop advice

[Luddite]

Hello all,

I was thinking of getting a laptop (need to spend much more time on my site!), but need abit of advice from you guys first.

Firstly, and maybe this is a stupid question, but can I use actinic from a laptop - including upload/download etc. Presumably the main issue is going to be hard disk space, and whether I can upload/download from different phone ports (maybe that doesn't matter if its from the same IP address?)

Secondly, assuming I can use one, can anyone recommend me a good laptop. As actinic users, you'll understand my needs pretty well. Aside from Actinic - I only really need to be able to use photoshop, dreamweaver and the usual MS office stuff.

Any advice would be warmly received.

Nick

[pinbrook]

You can't go wrong with Dell IMO. I've got a reconditioned Latitude and Actinic is fine on it. However I still use my PC for heavy duty photoshop work not because I don't think the notebook will take it, its just that the PC is more comfy with a bigger and better monitor.

Make sure you get both network card and modem cards.

[wjcampbe]

I run an Acer Travelmate as my second installation for when I'm on the road.

[GrahamL]

All the graphics on our site and all of the updates after Pinbrooks initial design were created with Photoshop and Fireworks on decent Sony laptops (currently a A397XP).

The problem with some laptops, is the quality of the screens. If you have a poor quality screen you can end up with graphics that might look fine on 'your' laptop, but on everyone else's computer the colours/brightness/contrast are well off what they should be (experience talking here! ).

Apart from that there's no problem working with modern laptops and a decent amout of RAM. We run all the programs you mention without any problems.

Graham

[Luddite]

Thanks all - thats really helpful.

Nick