The Best Laptop for Downloading and Burning Photos

Macbook Pro. For all the reasons others have listed. If you plan on working with photos a lot, you might want to invest in an external hard drive for storage and install at least 4gbs of memory (if you are going to do extensive photo editing, 8 gbs would be better). It's taken me a year of using the computer to hit capacity on my hard drive, but I have hit it, and now I'm offloading onto an external drive. Been a mac user for 25 years, and while I've used pcs for work, I have never bought anything but a mac.

Mac

Hands down

It's THE reason I got my macbookpro. Sure, it can do a lot of other fancy things, but nothing but nothing, is faster and can handle more data. Not even Alienware (for photos). I've had light tables and editing pages and adobe and aperature all running with over 4,000 images that I'm messing with at one time (and over 10,000 that I'm not) and it's just zip, zap, no lag, wait, stall, or "thinking" required. Multiple programs with MASSIVE amounts of data being used, and it's as fast and as flawless as if I had only a single program open with limited data. FAST AND FLAWLESS.

((It's pretty similar in other areas as well. I'm doing a research project for school, and wasn't paying attention and realized I had 79 tabs open in safari. Not a glitch. The PCs in the house, however, start to get grumpy at or before 10 tabs))

I'm a Mac convert because of the photo and film editing that I do. Macs are NOT intuitive to me (i've learned! But I cut my teeth on DOS, and used IBM compatiables for 20 years... it took me a little while.) The speed and reliability makes all the "HOW do I do this???" in the beginning (and randomly even now, 3 years later) so, so, so worth it.

LOL... they're also built to last. I took a tumble with mine and shattered the screen and broke the hinge and the durn thing STILL worked (do know that you can add them to your 'valuable personal property' insurance to cover repairs if you pull a boneheaded move like I did, or if they get stolen). Macs are NOT cheap. But dang.... do they WORK.

Get a Mac.

I have used both PC and Mac.
LOVE LOVE LOVE the mac exactly for the purposes you said.

Hands down.

Macbook Pro is the way to go.

We've had both Dell and sony vaio. Even if you don't ultimately buy dell if you go to the website you can get advice and build your own laptop so you know what you want to look for. When building your own one of the first things you do is select primary use of computer (school, internet, games or photos).

We have Dell laptops that we LOVE and have been worth every penny we spent on them.

Las month, we upgraded our 16 yr old daughters Dell with a MacBookPro. She loves it, transitioned very well and it seems as of now to be perfect for her.

It just depends in what you do with your laptop and what you need. I have not changed to Mac because I run our company financials on Quickbooks with my Dell and I see no need for that change right now.

If I were buying a new laptop just for me for whatever purposes ( as in. It running our family business on it....). I'd probably try a Mac

But I LOVE my Dell XPS 1210 ( 4.5 yrs old now and going strong). Great for my business and personal use.

Get an Apple Macbook Pro. It's worth the extra cost.

I'm 100% behind the Mac. The iPhoto software is very easy to use and you can do some pretty cool things with it. My dad who does photography for a newspaper won't use anything but Mac.

My house is full of Toshiba laptops. I've had great luck with them.