Are you on the go for your photography or video shoots? If so, think outside the box and consider a Chromebook as your travel accessory. It’s easy to dismiss a Chromebook as a viable photographer’s accessory. The common wisdom is that a Chromebook can’t handle big media applications such as Photoshop. But the reality is that it does fulfill many of the most important needs of a traveling photographer. Having used Chromebooks myself for over five years, they have served me well by providing me backup capability for my photo and video files and support for email and other web activity. Even the early Chromebooks provided clear benefits, such as low cost, light weight, long battery life (typically 10 hours), and malware resistance. Chromebooks have also supported many useful standard USB devices right out of the gate: mice, keyboards, monitors, media card readers, thumb drives, and hard disk drives. Offline Functionality (No, They Don’t Have To Connect To the Net) For photographers and videographers, perhaps the most important function is to back up image files. On my recent trips, I have taken a couple of 2 TB hard disk drives and done backups of SD media to hard drives […]
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