Laptop just for printing.

[MrMuggins]

Looking for a bit of advice or knowledge on my current setup.

I do all of my design work on a Mac Mini then print designs from the wifes Windows laptop. She uses the laptop quite a bit for video calling etc and it can sometime be a clash of interests when anything needs printing.

So the options are

1. Change the setup so I can just print from the Mac
2. Buy another laptop just for printing (overkill?)
3. Stay as we are

If I went down the dedicated printing laptop route what would the minimum/decent specs just for printing?

I cant imagine it would be much as all it would need to do is access Dropbox and print.

[Mugshots]

We have 2 big screen laptops for all our every day work, and then a small samsung notebook for smaller work i.e photoshop, gimp, printing etc

[MrMuggins]

This is what I'm thinking, small notebook or netbook. Reason I'm asking is just in case there's something I'm missing, I don't use Windows that much nowadays

[MrMuggins]

Poss something like this

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/ ... ml#wrapper

[Mugshots]

I got our samsung 2nd hand. Stupidly cheap. It has had an easy life to be fair. I just did a factory reset on it and installed the basics

[Justin]

I bought a new laptop for £200 whilst away on business. It was so slow it was unusable so I popped a 120GB SSD in it. It whizzes along now and I have no issues whatsoever!

[MrMuggins]

SSD does make a huge difference performance wise. Usually eBay or Gumtree throw up plenty of stuff near me but slim pickings at the moment.

[Justin]

Yes, mine was off Gumtree. SSD works that quickly in the laptop it doesn't have time to realise the cpu and memory aren't great!

[Mugshots]

What's SSD?

[Justin]

Solid State Drive, same size as the laptop drive but has no moving parts, hence it's quieter and more importantly in a laptop it generate no heat. Way faster than a 5400rpm drive which most laptops have installed.