I have gotten my hands on a Toshiba Ultrabook, and i reckon it could do a decent job at doing basic Lightroom tasks when in the field. Its small, light and has a good battery life... The problem is storage space... It has a 128Gb SSD, of which there is about 40Gb free after Windows, Office, Visual Studio (i am a professional developer by trade) and Lightroom. There is an SD Card slot (currently got a 16Gb card, waiting for a 64Gb to arrive), which i am currently using mostly for Dropbox and other storage...
Anyway, I am trying to figure out the best way to do a workflow on a device with such a low amount of storage. There are USB3 ports on the machine, so i was thinking a portable USB Hard Drive of some sort, but does anyone have any tips, tricks, etc, for actually working on a device this small with a large amount of files? My camera is a 5D MKII, and i usually shoot directly in RAW. That's a 24MB+ file for each photo!
by the way, just to clarify: When i say "workflow" on the ultrabook, i basically mean tagging, rating, geo-tagging and minor adjustments... ideally, once completed, i should be able to import all photos plus edits and metadata into lightroom on my main workstation and finish the edits, exports, etc...
Thanks.