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Hey all you Tech Gurus (hope there's more than just Snick on here) - I would like to purchase a netbook to bring with me to LOS for posting my 2011 Trip Report.
I'll want to load Google's Picassa program to manipulate my photos, which I'll be downloading from my brand new Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ40 (so new that it hasn't even arrived in the mail yet).
I'll want to have a wireless internet card of course, enough storage to handle editing the photos, resizing, etc.
I'll use google for my mail.
Pretty darn simple and straightforward. Let me know your recommendations.
I'm a Mac guy so go easy on me. I don't know the WINTEL world much. I must admit that the inability of my iPad to handle importing and manipulating photos is frustrating, as I originally thought this would be the perfect device for creating my Trip Reports. Now I have to buy a crappy damn Wintel Netbook just for this one application - creating a Trip Report.
Obviously I don't want to spend much $$$ as I already have an iMac, iPad, and Wintel desktop computer at my office. This little bastard will get used for my Trip Report, then filed away in my Thailand drawer along with my Thai Phone and Thai Bank Account Passbook, to be drawn out next trip but not used other than that.
OR: am I missing some other simple way of handling this without the purchase of a netbook? I can't very well load and manipulate photos on a rental computer at an internet shop, so I think I need to bring my own.
I'll want to load Google's Picassa program to manipulate my photos, which I'll be downloading from my brand new Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ40 (so new that it hasn't even arrived in the mail yet).
I'll want to have a wireless internet card of course, enough storage to handle editing the photos, resizing, etc.
I'll use google for my mail.
Pretty darn simple and straightforward. Let me know your recommendations.
I'm a Mac guy so go easy on me. I don't know the WINTEL world much. I must admit that the inability of my iPad to handle importing and manipulating photos is frustrating, as I originally thought this would be the perfect device for creating my Trip Reports. Now I have to buy a crappy damn Wintel Netbook just for this one application - creating a Trip Report.
Obviously I don't want to spend much $$$ as I already have an iMac, iPad, and Wintel desktop computer at my office. This little bastard will get used for my Trip Report, then filed away in my Thailand drawer along with my Thai Phone and Thai Bank Account Passbook, to be drawn out next trip but not used other than that.
OR: am I missing some other simple way of handling this without the purchase of a netbook? I can't very well load and manipulate photos on a rental computer at an internet shop, so I think I need to bring my own.
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