The best Laptop?!?!

Sophh

DCodd wrote: »

Most probably not;):)

Ahaa Course you have

esuhl

Sophh wrote: »

I can work a mac as I use it at college, so that isn't a problem. It's just whether the mac and a laptop can do the same thing as each other because there is a big difference in the price

Don't Macs use Intel hardware now, anyway? Meaning that hardware-wise there isn't much difference. I've seen Windows running on a Mac and OSX running on a PC.

So, it really depends on which OS you prefer. Which one do you find easier to use? Does one support more of the kind of applications that you might want to use? Is the extra cost of a Mac justified based on your personal preferences?

Sophh

I like both Window and Macs. I find macs a lot more impressive, but in my personal opinion, they can do exactly the same thing depending on what laptop and windows server you get. So im stuck. I'm leaning more towards a laptop because it is cheaper, but i just wanna know which type of laptop is the best and which will be the best for me and what I want to do which is use Photoshop and InDesign

Yolina

I strongly recommend a 64 bit OS and 8GB of RAM for Photoshop, decent CPU and graphics card (no idea what is available currently - my desktop is a few years old). I use Photoshop intensively with big photo files and many layers - my set up has so far been dealing extremely well with anything I've thrown at it. The last thing you want when you use Photoshop all the time is for it to take 30 seconds to do something instead of 5 - it will absolutely drive you up the wall otherwise!

Edit: do you really *need* a laptop or would a desktop do? It would be far cheaper and a separate monitor is better for colour calibration (laptop screens don't have contrast adjustment). Dell used to have some very good IPS panels for a very reasonable price - but again I am not sure what is available now.

esuhl

Sophh wrote: »

I like both Window and Macs. I find macs a lot more impressive, but in my personal opinion, they can do exactly the same thing depending on what laptop and windows server you get.

If you're a student who needs a computer for your course, then I can't see why you would need your own Windows server. It would be better to get an external drive for backups and to use the college/university's servers for network access.

Sophh wrote: »

So im stuck. I'm leaning more towards a laptop because it is cheaper...

A desktop will be cheaper (and easier/cheaper to maintain and upgrade), although obviously you lose out on portability.

Sophh wrote: »

...but i just wanna know which type of laptop is the best and which will be the best for me and what I want to do which is use Photoshop and InDesign

High-resolution image-editing will benefit from a large amount of RAM, and image processing will probably need a half-decent CPU. If you're just editing two-dimensional images then a good graphics adapter is probably not too important, but manipulating three-dimensional images (i.e. AutoCAD, etc.) will need a good graphics adapter.

Hope that helps a little.

Sophh

esuhl wrote: »

If you're a student who needs a computer for your course, then I can't see why you would need your own Windows server. It would be better to get an external drive for backups and to use the college/university's servers for network access.



A desktop will be cheaper (and easier/cheaper to maintain and upgrade), although obviously you lose out on portability.



High-resolution image-editing will benefit from a large amount of RAM, and image processing will probably need a half-decent CPU. If you're just editing two-dimensional images then a good graphics adapter is probably not too important, but manipulating three-dimensional images (i.e. AutoCAD, etc.) will need a good graphics adapter.

Hope that helps a little.

Helps a lot... thank you!!! :)

esuhl

Yolina wrote: »

I strongly recommend a 64 bit OS...

Good point - 32-bit applications can only address 4GB of memory (RAM + video RAM) at once. 32-bit processors with the PAE (physical address extension) feature can address up to 64GB RAM, but only by the use of page tables - each application can only address 4GB at once.

In other words, get a 64-bit OS (unless the software you want to use isn't compatible with a 64-bit OS)!

neilwoods

Sophh wrote: »

Yes the software is the same price.. around 300pound each. So 600pound altogether.. but If i buy a mac i will be spending around 2,000pounds but if i buy a laptop it may be somewhere around 1,000 to 1,500 obviously depending on which one i get

Where are you getting the price's for Photoshop and InDesign from, If you are a full time student, then you can buy them student prices directly from Adobe at £190 (£380) or you can buy the Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 for £333.60.

http://store2.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?event=displayProduct&categoryOID=6869702&store=OLS-EDU-UK

Maybe one of the Hp envy range would be good for use.

http://h40059.www4.hp.com/uk/homelaptops/index.php?range=HP%20Envy&k_clickid=EMEA|2dbe7609-bc2d-6209-3a25-000020549622&exp=direct&jumpid=ex_r10104_uk/en/hho/psg/ggl-se_chev/apr_brand&s_kwcid=TC|12933|hp%20envy%2017||S|e|8334278354

linni

There is always

http://www.software4students.co.uk/Graphic-Design-software-student-discount.aspx

for Adobe software.

Sophh

Ahh yeah! Im not very good with all this technical software stuff. Lol thanks will have a look at those websites Thanks again