Laptop for photoshop

Bartown22

My daughter needs a laptop for college, she is doing architecture and design, and has to use photoshop. I asked her to ask what spec laptop she needed, and all they said was as good as you can afford! I googled and it's coming back with laptops around £1500!! This is more than treble the budget I had in mind, can anyone advise me on what I really need.

Thanks

Wendy

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A Mac is what she needs for design. Assume they're that price but she can get student discount using her college/uni email

Bartown22

Thanks for that I'll get her to go in shop and ask, I'm thinking interest free credit card and she can pay me back slowly!

debitcardmayhem

Bartown22 wrote: »

My daughter needs a laptop for college, she is doing architecture and design, and has to use photoshop. I asked her to ask what spec laptop she needed, and all they said was as good as you can afford! I googled and it's coming back with laptops around £1500!! This is more than treble the budget I had in mind, can anyone advise me on what I really need.

Thanks

Wendy

A cop out I suspect

_shel wrote: »

A Mac is what she needs for design. Assume they're that price but she can get student discount using her college/uni email

Absolute nonesense

Bartown22 wrote: »

Thanks for that I'll get her to go in shop and ask, I'm thinking interest free credit card and she can pay me back slowly!

You should not buy on credit, buy a refurbed laptop(or even a Mac) with good screen resolution and good RGB colour coverage. Preferably with an SSD disk, and at least 8GB of RAM or 4 GB if it has a discrete video card with 4GB of VRAM. my laptop cost circa 620 new with an i5 CPU, 8 GB , and a GTX 950M with 4GB VRAM. Sadly its screen is not great for Photoshop, but I us my PC monitor when needed for photo work( very rarely).

EveryWhere

Look here; https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6053438/laptop-for-6th-form

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EveryWhere wrote: »

Look here; https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6053438/laptop-for-6th-form

Personally I think your recommendation there is good, but only if you have the money, but even so it is an overkill for school, that probably will not even have pantone monitors, color correction device or service. Would not surprise me if they may had a cheap questionable ink printer too.

More apt here, but better for uni though

Just my take.

Am keeping my eye on it. I think it will sell for over £600? < the ebay one on the other link

Bartown22

Thanks I'll do some digging, I have the money to buy one outright, but I do like to utilise my interest free credit, I just got a new card in anticipation 26 months and 5k ish lol

I used to work in IT back in the day, but then that was when we used 1.4mb floppy disks, things have moved on a little
😂

Carrot007

_shel wrote: »

A Mac is what she needs for design. Assume they're that price but she can get student discount using her college/uni email

HA HA, maybe pre 2010. Now they are a joke hung onto by people to entreched to see the change.

EveryWhere

that wrote: »

Personally I think your recommendation there is good, but only if you have the money, but even so it is an overkill for school, that probably will not even have pantone monitors, color correction device or service. Would not surprise me if they may had a cheap questionable ink printer too.

More apt here, but better for uni though

Just my take.

Am keeping my eye on it. I think it will sell for over £600? < the ebay one on the other link

It went for £667.50 and still has a full year+ of warranty remaining. The OP was willing to spend £600. So not far off.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dell-XPS-13-9360-13-3-QHD-IPS-Infinity-Edge-Touch-Core-i5-7200U-256GB-SSD-8GB/202789500785

I somehow doubt that either of the OPs took the plunge.

EveryWhere

that wrote: »

Personally I think your recommendation there is good, but only if you have the money, but even so it is an overkill for school, that probably will not even have pantone monitors, color correction device or service. Would not surprise me if they may had a cheap questionable ink printer too.

More apt here, but better for uni though

Just my take.

Am keeping my eye on it. I think it will sell for over £600? < the ebay one on the other link

Think about colour gamut like the frequency response of your sound equipment. If your speakers can only produce a high of 10kHz and a low of 200 Hz, you will never hear the music in the way that it was originally presented.
It will always sound truncated no matter what you do.

It doesn't matter as to whether you calibrate this or that. It simply cannot produce the low bass or crisp highs.

In the same way, it is important that you have the right equipment if working with light. It you cannot reproduce what it is that you want to communicate, the device is not fit for purpose.

So you need something that can reproduce the colours in the first place. 100% of sRGB is for what I would look to create and present my work. The DELL above has been measured at between 88.7% and 91.4%. Plus it has a relatively high resolution Touch screen. Not bad at all and close the original budget of the other OP.
But now already gone.

cranford

It may be worth spending £1500 for a laptop that remains at home but taking one to school has its risks. But if you are willing to spend that amount on a Mac etc nad are not adverse to credit, you have until 9pm tonight (3/10/19) to get 20% off on a 12 month interest free deal at Very. (but don't forget to pay up in the 12 months)