RE: OT: Best option for travel storage?

2011-11-26 Thread John Sessoms
From: John Celio Those of you who travel a lot: How do you store your photos while on long trips? Next May I'll be spending some time in Australia with my company (specifically, in Melbourne for roughly a week and a half), and then I'm hoping to be able to take another week or two off for a bit

Re: OT: Best option for travel storage?

2011-11-26 Thread steve harley
on 2011-11-25 17:26 Paul Stenquist wrote A 13 inch Macbook laptop. :Light, small, but with plenty of storage and powerful enough to run PhotoShop quite efficiently. pretty much what i do — a 2009 MacBook Pro 13 in my case, and Aperture instead of Photoshop; since i'm usually doing a lot more

Re: OT: Best option for travel storage?

2011-11-26 Thread steve harley
on 2011-11-26 11:30 John Sessoms wrote I made prior arrangements with several of my group of traveling companions to use their Macbooks to download photos to the LaCie USB drive. I installed MacDrive8 on my own laptop so I could read off-load the files when I got back home. so that your

Re: OT: Best option for travel storage?

2011-11-26 Thread John Francis
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 01:30:59PM -0500, John Sessoms wrote: Turned out I didn't use the backup hard-drive at all. We had such a tight itinerary I didn't even manage to fill up all of my cards. I copy to some other form of storage (normally my laptop - I put a 500GB drive in it just for that

Re: OT: Best option for travel storage?

2011-11-26 Thread Brian Walters
On Friday, November 25, 2011 12:08 PM, John Celio n...@neovenator.com wrote: Those of you who travel a lot: How do you store your photos while on long trips? Next May I'll be spending some time in Australia with my company (specifically, in Melbourne for roughly a week and a half), and

Re: OT: Best option for travel storage?

2011-11-26 Thread John Sessoms
From: steve harley on 2011-11-26 11:30 John Sessoms wrote I made prior arrangements with several of my group of traveling companions to use their Macbooks to download photos to the LaCie USB drive. I installed MacDrive8 on my own laptop so I could read off-load the files when I got back home.

Re: OT: Best option for travel storage?

2011-11-25 Thread Tim Bray
I have a 500G-or-so USB disk that I plug in and duplicate everything onto. Light, sticks in an internal pocket of my knapsack -T On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:08 PM, John Celio n...@neovenator.com wrote: Those of you who travel a lot: How do you store your photos while on long trips? Next May

Re: OT: Best option for travel storage?

2011-11-25 Thread P. J. Alling
Get yourself a used Dell D410, and upgrade the harddrive to 250-320gb, (those are the largest capacity PATA drives available for laptops AFAIK). The drive will probably cost you under $80, a refurbished laptop should be well under $200. A good battery will give you 3 to 3 1/2 hours of

Re: OT: Best option for travel storage?

2011-11-25 Thread Larry Colen
On Nov 25, 2011, at 12:08 PM, John Celio wrote: Those of you who travel a lot: How do you store your photos while on long trips? Next May I'll be spending some time in Australia with my company (specifically, in Melbourne for roughly a week and a half), and then I'm hoping to be able

Re: OT: Best option for travel storage?

2011-11-25 Thread Rick Womer
John, Generally I have my laptop along (320 gig hard drive), and download the pix to it, then back up to a portable external HD.  When I travel, the laptop is in my backpack (carry-on) and the portable HD is in my checked luggage. When I've had a long flight ahead in a standard coach seat (no

Re: OT: Best option for travel storage?

2011-11-25 Thread Mark Roberts
John Celio n...@neovenator.com wrote: Those of you who travel a lot: How do you store your photos while on long trips? I use a Dell 10v Mini (netbook). Small enough to be easily transportable, about 6 hours battery life (I got the optional ouble battery) and powerful enough (barely) to run

Re: OT: Best option for travel storage?

2011-11-25 Thread Paul Stenquist
A 13 inch Macbook laptop. :Light, small, but with plenty of storage and powerful enough to run PhotoShop quite efficiently. Paul On Nov 25, 2011, at 3:08 PM, John Celio wrote: Those of you who travel a lot: How do you store your photos while on long trips? Next May I'll be spending some

Re: OT: Best option for travel storage?

2011-11-25 Thread Stan Halpin
On Nov 25, 2011, at 3:08 PM, John Celio wrote: Those of you who travel a lot: How do you store your photos while on long trips? Next May I'll be spending some time in Australia with my company (specifically, in Melbourne for roughly a week and a half), and then I'm hoping to be able to