I have an Acer netbook.
Rather than struggle with RAW and processing, I am going back to a workflow I used 5+ years ago.
I always shoot RAW + JPEG on my Canon. I usually use the JPEG for quick web postings, etc.
Now I am going to go back to using Breezebrowser for reviewing and ranking images. I select all images and use a Breezebrowser slide show at about 4-5 seconds per image to review all of the images. Slideshow presents the imkge in full screen mode witha bl;ack background and no menu controls, etc. (use forward and back, + to flag, etc.) I flag all of images I wanted to see again, maybe about 1/2 or so.
On the next pass through slideshow, I select only the flagged images from step #1. Then I rank the images from 1 to 5.
After all of the images have been ranked, I select only the Rank 1 images. Then I go back and carefully review all of the Rank 1 images in slideshow again. I might bump a few down to 2, etc.
Then I go through and review all of the rank 2 images. Finally, I do a quick scroll through the Rank 3 images, just to see if there were any that I missed. I don't usually bother with the Rank 4&5 images. It is a fairly quick process! AQfter going throuigh the images a few tines in slide show, I think I have spent an average of 10-15 seconds per image to finsih my edit (some only get 1 look, etc.)
To use thre rankings with Lightrom, I copy the Rank 1 files to one directory, then the Rank 2 to another, Do your import and flag them with the rank, etc. and add metadata as they coime in. You could do that for just the rank 1 & 2 files, or for all of the files.
An alternative would be to update the EXIF or other metadata with your rankings in Breezebrowser, then read that as you import to Ligtroom. That would automate the handlinmg of all of the files.
With ranking in Breezebrowser, which is a very fast orogram, I have reduced the number of files I work with in Lightroomn by about 85% to 90%!
Now you can start more detailed Lightroom work. I like to do "copntacty sheey"-like proofs on 20"x24" sheets of paper on my Epson 7600.
Breezebrowser is very fast when reviewing images in a slideshow. I find that an excellent way to work.
Set your Canon JPEG color space to AdobeRGB, or whatever most closely reflects the final look you are after. I think you will be quite happy!
I can't really tell the difference between my Atom netbook and my photo processing desktop in slideshow in Breezebrowser, because the determining factor ion speed is my "pondering" the images to rank them. Just like real life!
Let me know if you try it and what you think. 30 day free trial. There is also a nice program for shhooting tethered on Canon.
Best,
Michael