Generally a desktop is cheaper, more powerful and will last longer.
Some modestly priced desktops offer quad processing and the ability to
upgrade when things change. For instance I added a better video card
and a USB card to my old PowerMac somewhere along the way. That said,
one computer is cheaper and easier to keep track of than two. The spec
of the desktop you are looking at is not much better than a decent
laptop. So there would be little advantage to it.
With the laptop you could get by with a good, but modestly sized and
priced plug in display. Put your Photoshop tools on the laptop screen
and just the image on the separate display. Add a wireless keyboard
and mouse and you have a really easy to manage workstation for image
post processing.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On / November 15, 2007 CE, at 9:00 AM, Jez Cunningham wrote:
> So I've been perusing what's out there and ended up looking at Dell
> (again):
> Inspiron 530, 2.33Ghz E6550 core 2 duo / viiv, 2GB (with slots to go
> to 4),
> 320GB or more (plus space for 2nd HDD), and a 22" wide LCD driven by
> 256kB
> nvidia card. £675 / €1000 is the rough ticket (incl 17.5% UK vat).
>
> My reasoning for going desktop rather than laptop is based on ease of
> upgrade (e.g. price of RAM), space for a couple of HDD and DVD
> drives, it'll
> never get moved (I've got an adequate laptop for travel if
> necesary), and a
> big screen, graphic tablet, full keyboard, etc. But many of you use
> laptops
> or Mac powerbooks - can they really compete in this area?
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