[Leica] MacBook Air and Lightroom for Africa trip

[Adam Bridge]

Next year I’m looking at doing a documentary trip to Africa with a college group. My normal travel computer is a 17” MacBook Pro but it’s HUGE, on an international trip it’s just not going to work, I think.

I have been very happy with my MacBook Air but the version I have only has 4 GB of RAM and a small solid state drive.

I’m wondering if anyone has experience with an MBA with 8 GB of RAM, the larger SDD and an external Thunderbolt drive for use with editing photos on the road.

I think I’ll have reasonable power. I’ll take about a zillion SD cards so I don’t have to erase anything but I know I won’t keyword or annotate images properly unless I do it the day I capture them.

So, if you have thoughts I’d appreciate it.

The alternative is a MacBook Pro 15” that I know will do the job. But it’s almost twice as heavy.

Thanks!

Adam