MacBook Pro Purchasing Advice Needed. I Need a Killer Set-Up?
Hello,
I need advice from the Apple community as to how I should proceed with my computer purchases. I am starting my own business called, Big Apple Photo Tours (bigapplephototours.com). I mainly use my computer for editing photos using Photoshop and for making photoboooks that are 12" X 24". Here is my problem: I am both editing my photos and designing these large photobooks on a 13" MacBook Pro. With every photo and every book I make, I have to zoom-in and zoom-out until I become nauseous. My screen size on my little Mac with Photoshop menus open and album design software menus open is minuscule. I am trying to design 24" wide photobooks using a screen width of about 5". To avoid this problem, my first thought was that what I really needed was a 27" iMac, however, I nixed this idea because I live far away from an Apple store in NYC, have no car, and don't want to have to wrap-up and mail a large computer when it starts to have problems. In addition, touting my little MacBook Pro to photoshop lessons and to the Apple store on the subway has been very convenient. So my leanings (after all of this) is to purchase a Thunderbolt enabled 17" MacBook Pro and a Thunderbolt Monitor. I was thinking about getting a high-resolution screen 17" MacBook Pro (drawbacks?). I would even get the matte screen in order to mimic the look of real photobook pages and I am open to solid-state hard-drives. I just love laptops because, if and when anything ever goes wrong with them, they are easy to transport and fix. The advice I need is; what would you do given the circumstances I'm in? What would your ultimate set-up be? Remember, to take into consideration not having a car and it is difficult to transport hardware. I just want the ultimate set-up for editing photos and making photobooks. Psst, to tell you the truth, if Apple doesn't have it all, I am even open to other manufacturers in my quest for the ultimate computer solution.
