Heh, again someone posts right when I'm replying


Weilin: The Lenovo x220 looks pretty good (especially if a 1600x900 screen is an option) but I'm worried about the battery life and also it costs over $1500+ with the good configuration as you mention.


The Asus Eee PC 1215B looks interesting if the battery life really is around 8 hours that they advertise. It would also be the most versatile option compared to a tablet (and in the price range too) and even has USB3.0 which is nice. I'm a bit worried though that even with that hardware Windows 7 just wouldn't be as responsive as I would like. And a big minus is that is has to boot and isn't "instant on" like a tablet.


Dr Croupie: About the battery life of the tablets I would agree with you that RAW conversion might be a bit more taxing than web browsing on a tablet but I don't think the difference would be that huge. Especially if I do this with WiFi/3G off. Here's a link to one test I found with quick googling: blog.gsmarena.com/motorola-xoom-battery-put-to-the-test-in-a-web-browsing-marathon-ipad-2-comes-out-on-top


They load a new page every 10 seconds in that test and the rendering of a whole page should be about similar to the rendering of a photo? About disk access the tablets use SSD storage so it shouldn't use the battery that much? Also for sorting, rating and deleting of RAW files I think the tablet would just extract the JPEG preview from the CR2 file and not really decode/render it from the RAW data? As editing goes I wasn't talking about any real proper editing, mainly just cropping and maybe some WB adjustments for uploading to the web if I'm say on a 2 week trip and want to share some images already from it. The proper post processing would be done with my Intel Core i7 2500K, 16GB Ram, Intel 120GB SSD, Radeon 6870 1GB HTPC after I get back home.