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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 412598" data-attributes="member: 13090"><p>When it comes to laptops, it's a lot like photography: There's always going to be tradeoffs. Luckily doing photo editing, really, is not all that hardware intensive. You need a decent degree of horsepower but nothing extravagant.</p><p></p><p>Personally, I'd look for an i5 or i7 processor, the i7 is better but the gain over the i5 will not blow you away and you're probably better off with an i5 considering cost since you can put those dollars into more memory or a larger screen. You'll want 8GB of system RAM and if it will handle more, 16GB would be better. Memory is the probably the cheapest, easiest upgrade you can do on any PC and will give you the best "performance vs. cost" return on your investment. I like to say if the CPU is the "brain" of your PC, memory is the "lung": if you can't get enough air not much else matters, you ain't going nowhere fast.</p><p></p><p>As for graphics cards don't sweat nVidia vs. Radeon; that's a Ford v. Chevy argument that simply doesn't need to be had. Get as much video memory as you can, 1GB would be good, 2GB would be better. Know that if you run out of Video Memory your PC will use system memory, which is why more RAM is one of the best upgrades you can do on pretty much any PC. </p><p></p><p>All that being said a pretty decent machine would be running an i5, have at least 8GB of RAM and 1GB of video RAM. </p><p></p><p>A *really* nice machine would have an i7, 16GB of RAM and 2GB of video RAM but I'd be willing to drop down to an i5 pretty quick if I was getting more memory in the video card. I'd actually be ready to drop to an i5 pretty quickly generally speaking, actually, but if you can get everything you want *why not* have the i7, eh?</p><p></p><p>Hope something in there helps you out...</p><p><span style="color: #FFFFFF">....</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 412598, member: 13090"] When it comes to laptops, it's a lot like photography: There's always going to be tradeoffs. Luckily doing photo editing, really, is not all that hardware intensive. You need a decent degree of horsepower but nothing extravagant. Personally, I'd look for an i5 or i7 processor, the i7 is better but the gain over the i5 will not blow you away and you're probably better off with an i5 considering cost since you can put those dollars into more memory or a larger screen. You'll want 8GB of system RAM and if it will handle more, 16GB would be better. Memory is the probably the cheapest, easiest upgrade you can do on any PC and will give you the best "performance vs. cost" return on your investment. I like to say if the CPU is the "brain" of your PC, memory is the "lung": if you can't get enough air not much else matters, you ain't going nowhere fast. As for graphics cards don't sweat nVidia vs. Radeon; that's a Ford v. Chevy argument that simply doesn't need to be had. Get as much video memory as you can, 1GB would be good, 2GB would be better. Know that if you run out of Video Memory your PC will use system memory, which is why more RAM is one of the best upgrades you can do on pretty much any PC. All that being said a pretty decent machine would be running an i5, have at least 8GB of RAM and 1GB of video RAM. A *really* nice machine would have an i7, 16GB of RAM and 2GB of video RAM but I'd be willing to drop down to an i5 pretty quick if I was getting more memory in the video card. I'd actually be ready to drop to an i5 pretty quickly generally speaking, actually, but if you can get everything you want *why not* have the i7, eh? Hope something in there helps you out... [COLOR="#FFFFFF"]....[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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