Its about both I guess. You can close panels on a 13" to work better, and if you are mobile and need to do things its kind of required. All I've really done in that mode is go through a pick the keepers... for any corrections I will usually wait until I'm docked.
I will also add that 95% of my work is sports and 95% of sports is portrait orientation. If your images are portrait, then on a 13" machine they are really quite tiny, and closing panels doesn't really fix that much. Sports also often require a lot of cropping and going through a thousand images like that on 13" is painful. If you are doing landscape work or something that is slower paced, fewer images, and landscape orientation... then the 13" would probably be quite fine.
Agree to each his own... different people have different needs. I did try the Bamboo a long time ago and hated it... swapped it promptly for their higher end model. I honestly don't remember what I hated about it. I was trying to use it as my main device at the time for everything. The one I ended up with had a mouse and a pen and worked pretty well but over time I shifted away from it...again, I don't really remember why I retired it.
I got the bamboo for about £40 to do virtual whiteboards when presenting at work. Was fine for that as it didnt need to be particularly accurate.
I would like to try a higher end model. You cant remember why you dodnt like the bamboo so not fair to ask you. Anyone else upgraded? Any insight into why a move from a bamboo to the intuos photo might be better? Curious is all.
Also i do do some edits when on holiday on a surface pro 3. It is good to use the pen but I agree physical screen size, while ok at a push, is a tad cramped for long spurts of zoom in, edit, zoom out, move, repeat sessions.. again just my personal experience.
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Yeah - but the problem I can see is that people are extrapolating their limited experience to other things they haven't used.
I have a crappy '11 MBA that I need to hang onto because reasons, a 15" '15 rMBP, a 13" '15 rMBP, a '16 MB, iPad Pros... and Surface 3, Surface 4 Pro, and Surface Books (among others).
And I do all my LR mobile editing on the Books: The Macs don't even get a look in. And there are so many reasons why they don't but the interaction possibilities, the hardware and even the fact that LR runs better in Windows than it does on Mac are factors.
However if you're wedded to a Mac, then the rMBP's are completely usable as is IMO. And as far as 'I need a 27" display to edit' is concerned, sure - if you want to do serious editing then it's advisable to go desktop.
But by the same token I could up convergent's ante and say that a Mini with a mere WQHD display is woefully inadequate for real LR/C1P editing: Heck, I do my desktop editing on a dual-5K Windows workstation that you can't even spec a current Mac Pro to match. But of course, it's all a matter of degree.
The reality is that within the confines of mobile and semi-desktop editing the Retina Macbooks are totally OK for the job. But as I said in the original post, why limit yourself to just the keyboard or trackpad? OP's on Windows, s/he doesn't need to move to a Mac.
But similarly, you obviously do this A LOT so you may be extrapolating the users needs too in the other direction.
The truth is, the OP can make do with what they have and make the best of it.
To my level of requirement can I edit a photo on my 6 year old MBP yes I can, with a trackpad ? Hell yes. Am I working on a pro image? Nope just enjoying my hobby.
We all still have a valid opinion and you need to respect that. It is a forum the OP asked for our opinion. Limited experience or not we still have experience and value to add.
So just chill dude... we all have an opinion and yours is as valuable as ours on the spectrum.
We get it, you are awesome now please stop trying to court controvesy and be part of the solution.
