i am so lost with mobile technology these days. i'm an amateur photographer, stay-at-home mom, who likes to dabble with my images, mostly for web, but sometimes for print output. i was using an old hp pavilion dv6000 laptop i've had for like 4 or 5 years. yes, i know, it's time to move on so i'm looking to get updated.. but on a budget. i also have two other home computers.. both desktop pcs. i understand photo professionals use mac.
basically, my laptop finally died and now in the market to get something else portable. but there is just SO much out there so wondered if anyone had ideas/suggestions on what i can get that might not cost me more than $500?? is that too cheap? remember, again, i do this all for fun as i don't have much time to make it a big side thing. mainly pictures of family, etc. i'm intrigued of the ipad, playbook and tablets. but which to use? my 3yr contract is up next month on my very VERY basic cell phone. so something that will allow me to communicate by voice (if possible), email, text and one that will also allow me to work on my high res images? are there such apps that can perform photo-editing like Photoshop CS? but again, i'm an amateur using all pc's, photoshop CS3 with onone software, i have a wide format printer too... so if i bought a portable device that was apple, will that mess up files if i send to my desktop pc's? i dont' want to have to update those if i don't have to. does this makes sense?
please help, i'm feeling quite ancient here and looking for some good, solid, but not easy-to-understand crash answers! thanks!
basically, my laptop finally died and now in the market to get something else portable. but there is just SO much out there so wondered if anyone had ideas/suggestions on what i can get that might not cost me more than $500?? is that too cheap? remember, again, i do this all for fun as i don't have much time to make it a big side thing. mainly pictures of family, etc. i'm intrigued of the ipad, playbook and tablets. but which to use? my 3yr contract is up next month on my very VERY basic cell phone. so something that will allow me to communicate by voice (if possible), email, text and one that will also allow me to work on my high res images? are there such apps that can perform photo-editing like Photoshop CS? but again, i'm an amateur using all pc's, photoshop CS3 with onone software, i have a wide format printer too... so if i bought a portable device that was apple, will that mess up files if i send to my desktop pc's? i dont' want to have to update those if i don't have to. does this makes sense?
please help, i'm feeling quite ancient here and looking for some good, solid, but not easy-to-understand crash answers! thanks!