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What kind of computer is appropriate?

What kind of computer is appropriate?

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What kind of computer is appropriate?

In addition to all of your camera gear, you may want to take a computer of some kind, and these days you've got a lot of options. The tricky thing about the whole computer question, though, is that you use the computer for more than just your kind of digital darkroom things. When you're traveling, you might also want a device that lets you send email or browse the web. It can be a really valuable resource for trip planning on the road and that sort of thing. So, what you should take in the way of computer is a little bit of a tricky question, because you've got to think of all the things that you might want to use it for, not just your photography applications. So of course the first thing you could do is take a laptop computer of some kind. This is certainly the most versatile option. It gives you a lot of storage for offloading images. It lets you run possibly the image editing software that you're used to using all the time anyway. So for example, I can run a full version of…

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