lrm Loc: Sarasota, FL

Looking for a small laptop or tablet to take to Europe to review and store photos. Tried a Samsung tablet but it cannot store (backup) photos. What do you recommend.

pelha Loc: middlle of nowhere NY

thanks for posting -- i am also looking for a travel computer, to replace my archaic netbook.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I was in that position two years ago for a trip to Jackson Hole and Yellowstone. I got a little netbook, Asus, I think. It has USB ports and a decent-sized hard drive, but it was small, light, and cheap. I also brought a small external hard drive. When I got home, I had hundreds of pictures in three places: SD cards, a hard drive, and a computer.

Jbat Loc: Charleston, SC

I use my laptop as a desktop computer so when I go out of town and will be shooting photos, I just carry the laptop along with a couple of 1 TB portable hard drives. I put the images on the laptop and copy them to the hard drives which gives me security of knowing I have multiple copies.
Which laptop would depend on a number of questions. If you shoot in jpeg and just want to look at the photos and not work on them, a light duty laptop would do although I would always get at least 8 GB of memory. I tried using a Chromebook for this purpose a couple of years ago and did not like the way it worked and the new things I had to learn so you might want to be careful there. If I were on Windows normally, I would get a Windows laptop. Same with Mac.

foxhal Loc: Boynton Beach FL

I have a mini iPad (64 gb) that is smaller and lighter than a tablet or notebook. I use it for emails and via the camera adapter ($30) to load my photos for backup. It will store RAW and display them as jpeg for review on the screen.

lrm Loc: Sarasota, FL

Thanks, sounds like a good solution.

ceh1024 Loc: Lutz, FL

I also picked up an ASUS T100. It's a 10 in 32x computer running windows. Small, light and long battery life at ~10 hrs. I have loaded the win 10 tech preview on it and it works great. You can attach anything you want to it including external hubs, hds, usbs etc.

lrm Loc: Sarasota, FL

Thanks,I was thinking a Chromebook might work, but unsure of the learning curve.

Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

While I realize that there are different models of tablets, I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1
No problems storing photos at all.
Hook up the tablet to the desktop or laptop, (with the USB cable, also used for charging the battery) and desktop or laptop sees the tablet as a separate drive.
Or transfer the photos with Wi-Fi - if your camera is Wi-Fi capable, this might be a good option.
Or put the photos on a micro-SD card and pop that into the slot on the top-edge of the tablet. You may have to go through the file-system to see photos from the mSD card, I find they don't necessarily show up in the Gallery.

The biggest problem may be finding a computer to act as "middle-man."

Whatever method you'd settle on, try it out and become comfortable with it before you head across the pond.

Just thinking of another option: If your camera has two slots for memory cards, copy one card to the other, keep one in your own pocket/suitcase, give the other one to your travel-companion or put in a different place, for safe-keeping.

EDIT: Right now I am trying out a small Notebook (ASUS 12" ) with Win8 for "everything": e-mail, photo storage, Solitaire, etc. It has USB ports, an SD-card port, a keyboard, and I can use a mouse with it. Want to know all the ins and outs before going on holidays and using it "for real".

Capture48 Loc: Arizona

Tablets will never store as many photos as a laptop. If I didn't already have the MacBook Pro I would buy a Mac Mini.

Thing to remember here is backups... Dumping your photos anywhere and erasing the card is a VERY bad idea. Until you have your photos in 2 locations they are not safe. IMHO, a laptop, any laptop is a bad idea for editing. The screens are just to small to make serious edits. I have done travel edits for posting on FB awhile traveling, but had to re-edit on a large screen when I get home.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

When I was first looking at digital camera systems, I told my wife that I would not consider a digital camera as my primary camera until I had a portable computer that I could use to make daily copies of my pictures. I remain convinced that decision should be made before the camera has been purchased. I remain convinced that you cannot afford the camera if you cannot afford the computer to support it.

I don't own a Chromebook, but my understanding is that they are primarily a web-based system; I'm not sure they have the flexibility to be good support in most cases. Right now I use a Windows system at home and I travel with a smaller Windows system. I would suggest the same strategy for everyone.

rtb220 Loc: O'Fallon, MO

We went to Germany and Austria four years ago. Took over 2,000 photos and downloaded them to an iPad with 32 gigs. Light weight and no storage problem, Used email to send some picture back to family, also face time with kids and grandkids. Transferred pix to Mac when we got home. iPad much light than MacBook.

johneccles Loc: Leyland UK

I use an LG G2 tablet with a 16gb microsd card and I have an Eyefi card in my camera.
When out taking photos the tablet is in my cargo pants pocket and when I take a shot it is transferred to it "on the go"

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

I am using a ASUS Zenbook which has a 10 hr battery 12 mmm thick and I store photos from trips on two external pocket HD one is a backup so I have photos from trips in three places the two HD and the cards. then I transfer the LR CataLOG TO MY MAIN DRIVE AT HOME

Photobobhunt

Right now I am in the UK on this years second European trip and I am using a Acer Net book running Windows 7.
It has a 250gb harddrive and a AMD processor.

I also have a copy of PS Elements 12 for quick edits.
The real key to travel storage is a good small external drive. I use a WD passport 1 TB whch has 8500 DNG + 8500 hi rez Jpegs from the last trip with room for about another 5,000 of each.

My primary camera is a Pentax K3 (cropped) 24 mpxl.and I shoot Raw (DNG) +
By the way the netbook can seem dredfully slow at times.

Hope this helps :shock:
Bob H