A new laptop and it's not a Mac!

If you are someone who constantly travels, rarely stays home for more than a week, and needs a high- powered computer, you will possibly not bother owning a PC. The need to have all of your creative or work programs on one computer will invariably force you to have a laptop, not just any laptop, a high powered modern laptop computer that can manage all sorts of tasks with ease and do this on the move.

For me personally, I am constantly on the move. I work in the Western Australian mining industry where I work a week on, week off roster. With so much travel I worked out that having a PC at home is not ideal for my needs. I actually purchased a wonderful monitor at one point to make sure my photography post-processing was the best it could be. The BenQ SW271 was a monitor that came highly recommended and so took pride of place at my home office for nearly a year.

I was running this monitor off an older Hewlett Packard laptop which was possibly not a great idea, although, without a PC tower, it would have to do for the time being. It did not take long to realise the covers on the BenQ monitor started to not come off on my week at home and that the purchase of the monitor was probably not the best decision I have ever made.

I sold the BenQ monitor a few weeks before I was due to submit images to the Australian Nature Photographer of the Year competition just after Christmas 2018. This proved to be a bit of a mistake on my behalf because two of the images I processed on the Hewlett Packard were accepted into this competition and I was not seeing the correct colours or brightness. When I attended the awards night in Adelaide in August, I was slightly embarrassed at the quality of my prints in the exhibition.

The colours were dull on both images and the brightness was not where it was supposed to be. I knew what had caused the inconsistency in the final print files, although, it was too late to do anything about it, and there was no one else to blame except myself. I have come to realise that life is about making mistakes and learning from them.

Cheers

Gaz