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by Larry Shuman on Tue Sep 29, 2015 6:01 pm

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I have a 14" XP Pro laptop with 500GB hard drive, 1GB memory. This was fine with my D3 & D300s but I don't think it will be
useful with my D800 & D600. When I had the D3/D300s I could tell ViewNX2 where to download the shots to. I use 2 Passport
drives-750GB & 150GB.
Can I keep the laptop and upgrade the Passport Drives to 1TB or 2TB and still use ViewNX2 to download with using the XP Pro laptop.

Or, do I have to buy a new laptop with Win 7, 16 GB DDR3 and 1TB hard drive?

Thanks for any input.

Larry

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by E.J. Peiker on Tue Sep 29, 2015 6:44 pm

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Anything with 1GB will not work, period, with D800 files, after the OS loads and a program runs, you don't even have enough memory to open the RAW file into a TIF or PSD and there is a good chance that the graphics is also using some of that memory. Furthermore, I don't know of any RAW processor that can handle D800 files under XP. 8GB is a bare minimum and you need a 64 bit OS, not a 32 bit OS to access that.

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by Larry Shuman on Tue Sep 29, 2015 8:25 pm

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Thanks EJ:
I'm going to test thing tomorrow. I'll plug in my 750GB Passport and tell ViewNX2 to download
to the 750GB passport. I don't intend on processing or trying to view anything with the laptop
other than downloading the camera. Or what your saying is just the downloading that will over tax the OS?

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by E.J. Peiker on Wed Sep 30, 2015 3:45 am

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So basically all you will be using it for is as a "router" from camera to HD? That will likely work

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