>I'm looking for a laptop computer for graphic design, one with excellent >color monitor, and which can run both Mac and Windows (if this is >possible). I will use the computer for Photoshop, Dreamweaver and similar >programs. For movies, too. Any suggestions? > >Elson >-- >Nazca Graphic Design & Photography >http://cdo.weblinq.com/~nazca/ > >Keramos Pottery >http://cdo.weblinq.com/~nazca/keramos/ Had a Mac G3 with 14" screen - it worked well. It was replaced with a 12" screen Mac I-book (not my choice) and it's too small for any useful graphic work. Runs DVD movies nicely though. A Mac can run Windows under a program like Virtual PC (I could claim that it's more stable than Windows on a PC but Karl would hurt me if I did) but an Intel based machine can't return the favour. Many programs are cross platform now (and viruses as I now know!) so that helps. Your main problem is that manipulating photographic images on a laptop is hopeless as the angle of the screen relative to your eye plays havoc with the gamma (tilt the screen at a slightly different angle or move your head and....) - I went back to a regular monitor. The multimedia geek at work uses a 14" Mac Titanium, but he lives in a low res. world and doesn't even know what a film scanner is for, so if it's just for web page assembly, no problem. AndrewF
