Trying to help a relative find a laptop for her price range. She needs it for Photoshop, another program like Photoshop forgot the name, excel, word.
Found this:
https://i.imgur.com/90w2oAx.jpg
It has 16gm ram and 1tb ssd but didn't have time to check which graphics card it had. Though it has a i7 7500u.
Is this a good laptop for the price or can she get better for $2500 (which is the maximum she will spend)?
How much of a discount does that code give?
5%, brings it down to $2,184.05.
Btw, it only has Intel HD Graphics 620 with shared graphics memory.
is that bad for photoshop?
@ufsta:
The Intel Iris Pro or U/HD620 are great iGPU's…. but in the scheme of All GPUs they are merely "okay".
I wouldn't buy the Spectre laptop if I was you.
It's a phenomenal laptop, however, the price is very high and the CPU is kinda slow.
For a 7th-gen/last-gen cpu its great, but for the current-gen, its not that great.
The new cheap Ryzen cpu's (mobile Raven Ridge) offer competitive performance at a much cheaper price, and the new Intel 8th-gen cpus are definitely better.
Windows applications has slowly transitioned from Single and Dual-core dependency to Quad-cores since 2009 to 2015 transition period. So a Quadcore laptop will definitely run faster than a Dualcore, in some instances around x1.1 faster, in most instances around x2 faster, and in few instances around x3 faster.
So unless this laptop is really cheap, I would wait for the 8th-gen Intel chips.
The dualcore laptops (used or new) are going to get a MASSIVE discount towards the middle/end of this year. It happens every transition, and the layman who upgrade-late or adopt-early are usually the ones to get burned with Buyer's Remorse.
How does the i7 7500u compare to the newer 8th gen cpus?
Is this something that will last a few years without needing an upgrade or is that all just subjective on what the laptop is used for?
The i7 "U" 7th gen will be dual core, essentially an i5 but with extra L2 cache
The 8th gen i5 and i7 are both quad core
No need to spend that much. A Lenovo Thinkpad will do the job and cost around $1500 at the most (could probably get a good machine under $1000 even). Lots of deals on here, bound to be another one soon.
16gb ram and 1tb ssd is what caught my eye
for photoshop, wouldn't a requirement for photo editing be a high color gamut display?
CPU Power aside if the screen is terrible and doesn't produce accurate colours that's not helpful to a photographer.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-Best-Notebook-Displays-As-…
+1 this, a colour accurate screen is just as important as RAM/SSD specs for serious Photoshop work.
A laptop with an IPS screen and 99%+ sRGB coverage will be a good start. You can always calibrate the display with something like a Spyder5 to get it more accurate if necessary.
Cheap consumer grade Thinkpads (i.e. Edge series) have pretty mediocre screens. Having said that, if it's just for casual Photoshop use then a cheap Thinkpad Edge with an i7 xxxxHQ processor and SSD would be sufficient.
another program like Photoshop forgot the name
Probably Adobe Illustrator for vector graphics.
For 3d editing etc wouldn't you need dedicated graphics?
Get an ugly think pad
I remember seeing a 16GB RAM Acer laptop from the good guys for more than half that price!
Seems like a decent PC, I'll let others comment on the value for money, but you can get it much cheaper from Microsoft eBay with P5OZZIE.