And since I shoot all of my photos in RAW format, using a DSLR, the ability to process raw images is important.
When I take a laptop on the road, I need it to do several specific things: Understanding Your PC Needsĭifferent people have different needs. What follows are the details of how I did that, and how well the arrangement has worked. Adopting this setup does mean enduring a few hassles, but overall the two operating systems play nicely together, if you set them up properly. But at some point shortly after installing the Parallels/Windows 7 combo, I stopped using the VM, opting instead to integrate Mac OS into my existing, Microsoft-based environment. Originally, I had intended to load most of my Windows applications onto the new laptop, using the Parallels virtual machine software. So I bought a 13-inch MacBook Air configured with a 256GB solid-state drive. Some missed the boat on the trackpad others had lower-quality displays. Even so, I might have waited, except that the Ultrabooks I’d previewed to that point seemed uninspired–with clunkier hardware than the Air offered and various odd compromises.
At that point, the first Ultrabooks had been announced but were not yet shipping. About nine months ago, I acquired a 13-inch MacBook Air.
