New Laptop on the way!

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carguy

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So since I dove this far into photography these last two years, my Dell Vostro 860 laptop has been struggling. I bought it to use for Microsoft Office / website work and surfing. LR4 has been taxing the processor something awful.

With plans to upgrade being postponed for one reason or another, I bought the full version of LR5 to upgrade earlier this week, used the B&H coupon for $69. Went home and during the upgrade, my computer told me LR5 required Win7 or above.... I'm running Vista....

Hit Fatwallet.com yesterday, picked up a Dell Latitude E6510 refurbished laptop, 8GB RAM, 250GB Hard Drive, i5 processor & Win7 Pro for $435 w/tax & shipping to my door (Fatwallet had a 25% coupon code). Can't wait for the new arrival!

This will be mine and the Vostro will continue to sit on the desk for family use.

Plans are LR5 and the Google/NIK Collection as I move forward with my new found skills :)

New Seagate 3TB external drive will house my LR catalogs, on site backups to a second 2TB drive and using BackBlaze for cloud backup. Seems like a pretty good plan.... Now to wait on the porch for the new toy to arrive :)
 
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PapaST

Senior Member
Congrats carguy! i5's are nothing to snuff at. They pack some punch.

I'll have to check out fatwallet. I'd never heard of it until now. Thanks.
 
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carguy

Senior Member
PapaST said:
Congrats carguy! i5's are nothing to snuff at. They pack some punch.

I'll have to check out fatwallet. I'd never heard of it until now. Thanks.
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Link to Fatwallet / Dell Refurb page:
Dell Refurbished Computers Coupons - Dell Refurbished Computers Coupon Codes, Promo Codes and deals

Looks like the 25% coupon is still active :)

Nice deal tonight:
http://www.dfsdirectsales.com/Store...67/cl1/dell_precision_m4500_8gb_ram_250gb_hdd

$409 shipped with tax!

Dell Precision M4500 8GB RAM 250GB HDD
Processor: 1x Core i7 Quad (i7-740QM) 1.73 GHz
Memory: 8 GB
HDD: 250 GB
Optical: DVDRW
Video: Nvidia Quadro FX 1800M
OS: 64-bit Windows 7 Pro
 
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Deezey

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Pretty much the same specs as me, but for the hard drive. I run LR5 and photoshop CC at the same time no problems. I have also made HDRs upwards of 216MBs with no stutter whatsoever. You will love it.
 
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fotojack

Senior Member
Nice, Joe! I'll be nice once it shows up, eh! :) At least you've gotten away from that awful vista! :) I use an old Lenovo T61 with 2 GB of ram, and I have LR4.4 loaded, using Windows 7 Pro. No issues yet, but I'm sure it'll crap out on me some day! lol I keep my fingers crossed till that happens. :)
 
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carguy

Senior Member
Yeah, my current PC is Intel® Celeron M® M560 (2.13GHz). Came with 1GB RAM, upgraded to the max of 4 GB. It will be a refreshing upgrade for sure.
 
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