[iBook] Older Powerbook vs new Macbook

[Ed Wiser]

Don I do mac Genius work for Photographers and they work similar to  
the way you do.
They have all switched to MacBook Pro's and are loving it. Especially  
the quicklook in Leopard.
There will be a speed up especially with the large files that you are  
working with from a 10 meg camera.


On Dec 21, 2007, at 5:33 PM, Don Distel wrote:

> I have a 4 or 5 year old G4 Powerbook. It is a 1 GHz model with 1 GB  
> of Ram. My only real usage for this laptop is location photography  
> where I tether the camera to the laptop so my clients can see their  
> products on the laptop screen as opposed to looking at the back of  
> the camera. Everything works fine but it seems to be slow especially  
> since I went from a 5 megapixel camera to a 10 megapixel.  Would I  
> see a significant increase in speed with a new Macbook which I would  
> max out the ram?  I don't want to spend the extra $ on a Macbook Pro  
> if I don't have to. One other thing, as soon as I get back from my  
> location work I download the photos onto my 20inch G5 I Mac and work  
> on them there.
>
> Thanks,
> Don
>
>
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