I’ve had a dual pentium processor NT box for the past six years and upgraded to Win2000 about 16 months ago. The computer is exclusively used as a graphics workstation. I thought the budget would only allow upgrades for next year but have been told to go ahead and get the specs in order.
My question, when doing high end graphics, illustrations do you feel that the laptops have come up to comparable standards as the stand alone workstation. One thought is to spec a laptop with docking station, the other is use a workstation and consider down the road a PC tablet to take with me for sketching capabilities. Both the laptop and workstation sans the PC tablet that I have speced out are similar in price but I would like to know that I’m not giving up speed and processing power in exchange for mobility.
Softwares that I run are all Adobe products, Macromedia products (Director, Flash). Other products include Deltagraph, Sigmaplot and other types of graph packaging. Any thoughts on minimum and maximum specs for this equipment would be helpful.
