Anyone in the crowd have thoughts on a laptop that would be good for digital archiving or digital preservation tasks? 👨💻
@joe I just bought a Windows laptop since I've used Macs for the past few years and teaching students that have PCs. There's definitely a Mac-bias in terms of tutorials etc. since many use bash and, even further, Mac versions of bash commands. However, Windows 10 let's you install a Linux subsystem, so I do have a GNU shell available, but I still have some testing to do.
@textfiles @joe That raises a good point. What do you think of as digital preservation tasks? I bought a laptop with a digitizer screen, because reading and annotating papers is becoming a more important part of my #digipres life
@textfiles @nkrabben Thanks for the recommendations! Mostly would be used for on the go accessioning through disk imaging and some file analysis from different units on campus. I hadn't thought about the keyboard, although I'd have to lug that around too it might make my overall experience better
@joe @textfiles If you really want an on-the-go mechanical keyboard, you can get cutdown 61-key versions, but the most important thing is trying out the built-in keyboard in-person before you buy it to make sure it's something that won't annoy you. (or that might just be me, picky keyboard user)
@joe @textfiles Also, a keyboard I like ranks high on my list of things to look for. e.g. I skipped over some laptops because the keyboards were mushier or clickier than I liked when I tried them at Best Buy.