JPL

Microsoft surface book is the best one for you if money is not a problem. Light and travel friendly and very powerful.

hj Loc: Florida

Guess I'll pay devil's advocate... My wife and I both have nice iMacs in each of our home offices. I thought it would be great to have a laptop for the very reason you suggest, to download pics while away from home. Had it a couple of years and almost never used it so sold it and just prefer a desktop computer. You can buy a lot of smart media cards for storing your travel pics until you return home..... if you don't put the money into a laptop. I also bought an iPad mini and never use it.

hj Loc: Florida

Guess I'll pay devil's advocate... My wife and I both have nice iMacs in each of our home offices. I thought it would be great to have a laptop for the very reason you suggest, to download pics while away from home. Had it a couple of years and almost never used it so sold it and just prefer a desktop computer. You can buy a lot of smart media cards for storing your travel pics until you return home..... if you don't put the money into a laptop. I also bought an iPad mini and never use it.

adula1946

I use a Samsung Chrome book to take with me on long trips from home, and it helps me in reviewing photos before I leave the area in case I want to take a photo again.

cdayton

I have an adaptor - check Amazon, lots of choices for SD, etc.

mainshipper Loc: Hernando, Florida

And how do you do that with a Chromebook?

Larz

Thanks

TomV Loc: Annapolis, Maryland

I recently bought a refurbed Asusl UH display laptop and it works like a champ. On Best Buy, paid about $990. Found it by starting a search on ebay. Being refurbed, availability varies. Very nice screen and plenty of power.

CaptainEd

I've been looking for a while myself. Effectively, the machine I use is a desktop replacement (though going on 4 years old now), which is what you describe wanting when you say you want to do all of the post when traveling that you do at home. I'm not sure how comfortable you are with technology, so I'll offer my opinion on technology, and then by "category". For the processor, I would suggest i5 (current generation) or better, as much as good as you can afford (budget is everything here). Internal Ram, no less than 16gb. For storage, the ideal configuration would have an SSD for the operating system, applications and potentially swap space, and a hard drive for storage of photos and other data.

From a category perspective, when you're looking at brand offerings, machines with these specs tend to fall into gaming machines, desktop replacements, mobile workstations, or "high end" business laptops.

Once you have figured out your price range and narrowed the models, you might want to try googling "brand model xyz display photography" to see if there are any comments about the display when used by photogs.

Just another opinion.....best of luck!

-Ed G.

NoSocks Loc: quonochontaug, rhode island

MacBook Pro. Once you use a Mac, you'll wonder why you didn't convert years ago. IMHO.

Chris Bennett

A lot depends on how much you plan to use it.
I have Asus Q534UX-BHI7T19 2-in-1 15.6" 4K Ultra HD Touch-Screen Laptop (7th Gen Intel Core i7-7500U, 16GB Ram, 512GB SSD + 2TB HDD, NVIDIA GTX 950M Thunderbolt, Windows 10) Chocolate Black Aluminum Hairline.
Around $1,300 for a very powerful machine.
The 4k resolution is excellent for photos. The solid-state start-up drive opens Windows within seconds and the 2TB HDD allows plenty of storage for images. It also has touch screen capability. After comparing with comparable laptops from Dell, Microsoft, and HP among others I determined that this one provides more value for $$ spent. It has no issuesrunning Adobe Suite software for post processing. It weighs 8.5 lbs.
You can get it for less with a 1TB storage drive if you don't wish to keep a back-up archive on your laptop. Maybe too pricy for occasional use but if you travel a lot it is priceless.

mainshipper Loc: Hernando, Florida

Every time I help a buddy with his Mac I’m glad I’m on Windows.

PhotonHog Loc: Annapolis

Good topic. There are many good laptops/netbooks or portable PCs out there. I have always liked HP and Dell and now I have an ASUS Q553 that is working out very well. BUT. Be sure there is a compatible slot so you can just insert the card right from the camera to the PC. VERY easy - no messy cables. I also use GIMP as it seems to do most of the real work and it is FREE. Cannot go wrong with that. Any drives out there - HDD or SSD will be more than enough. Another thing is to put photos/videos in the right directory right from the start as this makes things later on much easier. GOOD LUCK!!!

Chris Bennett

GreyOwl40 Loc: Quebec City

I have a Dell 15.6" with I7 processor, 1 TB hard drive and 16 GB RAM and touch screen, which I never use.. It has 3 USB ports. I have PSP X9 and transfer most of my photos directly onto a USB stick. The ones I want to work with I also save on my hard drive. My wife has a mini iPad, which has no USB ports and which I find very limiting. Useless, if you are into photography. I agree that a 17" laptop is really a replacement for a desktop. I purposely did not go that large because it becomes more difficult to carry around and, also, I have a desktop with a large monitor. I find the laptop handy, and so use it extensively. All of this does not come that cheap, but was, I believe, worth it. The only feature I really miss is the optical drive. As my mother always said, "the poor and the stingy always pay twice."