[Leica] MacBook Air and Lightroom for Africa trip

[RicCarter]

i'm using the retina 15 now, mid levels come with 16 g ram/ 500g flash storage
very satisfied

there is much talk about a 12 retina coming up before long--may be the perfect travel machine

rather than carry tons of cards, look at one of the very small external drives around these days
i use a 1T my passport ultra from WD
carry it on road to catalog in LR
put the images with notes, and edits on the drobo when i get home

ric




On Jul 28, 2014, at 9:35 PM, Adam Bridge <abridge at mac.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
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