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Hello, This is my first post on this site, and I hope that your experiences, expertise and suggestions can help me find what I need. I shoot all my pictures in RAW and generally also take some video footage. What I am looking for is the following: Tablet or laptop to backup and view the RAW (i.e., CR2) files Being able to install Lightroom would be great but is not 100% required, as long as I can at least view the images Having a USB port would be great for usign external hard drives, etc. The tablet/laptop should be light The item shouldn't cost more than $400-$500 I currently have the Microsoft Surface RT, which I HATE I am open to Chromebooks with an external drive (unless some have larger storage) but I can't seem to find out if they allow to view CR2 files Thank you very much in advance, I really appreciate your help. Best regards, Stefan

Hi As you all know, my mistress (underwater photography) is highly expensive and is always demanding more! Now it is crying for a new a computer for processing the photos…. At this moment I use the Lightroom on a Mac Mini (quite old, 2009 I think!), and I am considering to go mobile. First of all, is it possible to transfer the Lighroom catalogue from IOS version to PC version? What do you recommend: - MacBook Pro 13.3, i5 dual core 2.0GHz, 8GB memory, 256GB ssd - Microsoft Surface Pro 4, i5, 8GB memory, 256GB ssd - Any other suggestion? Thanks!

Hello all, New to Wetpixel but have been diving 20 years, a few of them with a little Olympus point and shoot and recently purchased an Olympus OMD E-M5 in Nauticam Housing. Loving the camera and shooting RAW, just find that my current laptop is severely slow when it comes to editing RAW files with the Olympus software. Would like to start working with Lightroom and know my current system will be painfully slow... There isn't much incentive to get creative and explore the possibilities offered by RAW images if my computer is constantly bogged down. Yes, I know I can upgrade the RAM etc. on my current laptop but want a system that I can grow into, as opposed to a band-aid patch to just get by for today... Hopefully someone on this forum has upgraded their system recently, or could suggest minimum requirements to ensure that I can efficiently edit my photos AND grow my skills, possibly expanding into Photoshop etc. When editing takes way more time than actually taking the pictures the files will pile up, and I will never get around to dealing with them. I am embarrassed to admit that other than a first cull I still haven't sorted and edited my MANY pictures from a trip to Kenya in February / March. If I don’t streamline the editing process my pictures will just end up sitting in digital purgatory somewhere on a hard drive :-( Looking for something portable that I can take to work with me, as well as on vacation. That being said, it doesn’t have to be the smallest, lightest, latest and greatest thing out there. As I live on an island and commute by water taxi something with some durability would be a bonus. In addition to photo editing I will be using the laptop for basic MS Office functions such as Word, Excel, Project, as well as playing music, watching movies etc. I am a PC user but would consider Macbooks if the cost / benefit can be justified. Any thoughts? Thank you in advance for your input. Regards, Adam Taylor