On Saturday 04 February 2006 17:16, Sincwill wrote:
I'm looking to purchase a laptop to use exclusively for my photography. I am planning on loading SUSE 10 and using GIMP for all of my image collection and manipulation. Anyone using a laptop and Linux for this great program?
I have used both the Linux and Windows version on my desktop but I am hoping to keep the laptop stricly for image manipulation and web design.
I appreciate any help and suggestions.
Thanks! Sincwill
Laptop implies LCD, and LCDs have a tendency to unstable color rendition (move your head, watch the colors change). That can be irritating, though plent of folks do it all the time. Also, the one big weakness of the GIMP in my view--and I'm told by the gimp-development list that this is expected to change with release 2.4, but also that they're not sure when that'll be--is the lack of color management. Linux appears to be just a little on color managemnt (Monica is a start, but it seems to handle black/whitepoint and gamma, not actual color profiling, so far as I can see). If you take your photography so seriously as to dedicate an entire laptop to that sole purpose, may I be a damnable heretic and suggest you a) consider these issues carefully and b) maybe look at a Mac, at least for the immediately forseeable future? Both the OS and PS can run "real" color management tools (e.g. Monaco Optix). Please forgive the heresy, it doesn't come easy. Cheers, Simon (Five--and counting--friends converted to Linux, four Linux desktops, three Linux laptops, two UltraSPARC, and a Mac iBook G-three ;) "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." Naguib Mahfouz __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com