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Subject: [Leica] Totally OT: OSX on a tiny laptop?
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 22:20:06 -0700
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At 6:58 AM +0200 5/8/09, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>Thanks to Rei, Ken, Mark and Ric for helpful suggestions.
>
>Having read through some of the sites referenced, I think I will sit 
>on my hands just a bit more to see whether Apple decides to come out 
>with something in this product category.
>
>Steve, the Macbook Air is not what I am looking for, it is too big 
>for the Domke 803.
>
>Cheers,
>Nathan

Hi Nathan,

I'm in a similar position. I got an Asus 901 a year ago, and am using 
it whenever my MacBookPro is too big. I take it on trips etc. I store 
my photos on 2 1/2" USB drives attached to the netbook; I access the 
internet, can use OpenOffice and Skype with video.

It's got a 20Gb SSD and Linux. It works, but it doesn't run the same 
apps as the Mac. That's the main problem. I don't want programs that 
may or may not be able to do the same things, I want to use the same 
programs. In particular, when away I want to be able to use Lightroom 
and Photoshop. I could get a Windows machine, but I have been forced 
to use Windows at various times and don't really want to any more. It 
still would work like the Mac.

So I too am hoping that Apple will have a netbook/tablet computer 
shortly. The rumours are promising.

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