Laptop for photoshop

debitcardmayhem

Bartown22 wrote: »

I am utterly clueless, as is she 😂, I can get my head around processor, ram I've googled and I'm learning about ssd? Gpu? I don't want to spend a fortune, looking around £500 should cover it, less if a go for a refurbed one, I just want someone to say buy this it will work, and not at snail pace, there are just so many!

If you are looking at £500 then the refurbished route is better because you will almost certainly get more "value", if she gets a student discount that won't usually work but I don't know:o GPU is the graphics processor unit, all CPU's have one but installed graphics cards take some of the load from CPU for the graphics part making it more efficient. As you said earlier "they said was as good as you can afford" which is a cop out as I intimated in my earlier post. An SSD will make things generally quicker and RAM more the better for graphic manipulation, but a discrete (installed) card will alleviate some of the overhead on memory(ram). As you say it is a minefield out there and often there is too much point scoring on forums without always helping you the OP to make a choice. Ideally I would want at least an i5 Intel CPU (or an equivalent AMD which I don't know enough about) and perhaps a Graphics card too, since your daughter needs it for architecture and design perhaps the colour gamut is not too important, especially if we don't get too far into what printer she wants to print on (not helpful comment I know ) Has she tried using photoshop on your current set up at home?

EveryWhere

Have a look at Dell Outlet too; https://www.dell.com/learn/uk/en/ukdfh1/campaigns/shop-outlet-deals

They have a variety of discounts. She may be able to get 25% off the displayed prices.

EveryWhere

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

If you are looking at £500 then the refurbished route is better because you will almost certainly get more "value", if she gets a student discount that won't usually work but I don't know:o GPU is the graphics processor unit, all CPU's have one but installed graphics cards take some of the load from CPU for the graphics part making it more efficient. As you said earlier "they said was as good as you can afford" which is a cop out as I intimated in my earlier post. An SSD will make things generally quicker and RAM more the better for graphic manipulation, but a discrete (installed) card will alleviate some of the overhead on memory(ram). As you say it is a minefield out there and often there is too much point scoring on forums without always helping you the OP to make a choice. Ideally I would want at least an i5 Intel CPU (or an equivalent AMD which I don't know enough about) and perhaps a Graphics card too, since your daughter needs it for architecture and design perhaps the colour gamut is not too important, especially if we don't get too far into what printer she wants to print on (not helpful comment I know ) Has she tried using photoshop on your current set up at home?

Colour gamut of the monitor isn't the same as the colour gamut of the printer and medium. But of course it makes sense for the thing to look right on the monitor in the first place.

Again, the HiFi analogy. You start with the best quality source possible and then try to get the printer to print it as closely as possible to the medium.

Simply explained here; http://www.printingconcepts.com/pdf/ColorGamut.pdf

Bartown22

Lenovo ThinkPad T440 Laptop PC - 14.1in i5-4300U 8GB 240GB SSD WiFi WebCam USB 3.0 Windows 10 Professional 64-bit (Renewed)

I've found this on amazon around £300, however one has 4 processor and 8gb, the other has 2 processors and 16 gb which would be better?

I'm going to buy it to see how it is, if its not good enough for her, I need a laptop for myself, so it won't be a wasted purchase

Cisco001

Bartown22 wrote: »

Lenovo ThinkPad T440 Laptop PC - 14.1in i5-4300U 8GB 240GB SSD WiFi WebCam USB 3.0 Windows 10 Professional 64-bit (Renewed)

I've found this on amazon around £300, however one has 4 processor and 8gb, the other has 2 processors and 16 gb which would be better?

I'm going to buy it to see how it is, if its not good enough for her, I need a laptop for myself, so it won't be a wasted purchase

Check the price in ebay before you purchase.

I think you may be able to get i5 5th gen thinkpad for £300 at ebay. I checked the price couple weeks ago.

stragglebod

If the college isn't giving her clear guidance on what the requirements are then she needs to go back to the tutors and insist.

EveryWhere

Bartown22 wrote: »

Lenovo ThinkPad T440 Laptop PC - 14.1in i5-4300U 8GB 240GB SSD WiFi WebCam USB 3.0 Windows 10 Professional 64-bit (Renewed)

I've found this on amazon around £300, however one has 4 processor and 8gb, the other has 2 processors and 16 gb which would be better?

I'm going to buy it to see how it is, if its not good enough for her, I need a laptop for myself, so it won't be a wasted purchase

I don't know what you are thinking. You have ignored just about everything that has been written.

Bartown22

Not ignored it no I've bookmarked for a later date, but we need a laptop for Monday purely for homework, she will use the computers at college. I also need a laptop so we're going to go with this,my other daughter can use it too.

I've looked into dedicated graphics cards etc, my brother has filled my head with talk of AMD, this gives me more time to look into discounts, funding, and better high spec laptops, this was a last minute course change from A levels, so if she decides its for her and she might want to go to university, then an investment in a better laptop will be essential, thanks for all your advice I have taken it all in and wasted at least 10 hours trawling the Internet!

For now we'll see how she gets on.

EveryWhere

Bartown22 wrote: »

Not ignored it no I've bookmarked for a later date, but we need a laptop for Monday purely for homework, she will use the computers at college. I also need a laptop so we're going to go with this,my other daughter can use it too.

I've looked into dedicated graphics cards etc, my brother has filled my head with talk of AMD, this gives me more time to look into discounts, funding, and better high spec laptops, this was a last minute course change from A levels, so if she decides its for her and she might want to go to university, then an investment in a better laptop will be essential, thanks for all your advice I have taken it all in and wasted at least 10 hours trawling the Internet!

For now we'll see how she gets on.

£300 for what you purchased is not good value. Personally, I don't think you took any of it in

I think you got as far as CPU, RAM and SSD and the rest escaped you.

The Lenovo is a solid laptop, but the screen is poor. Full HD IPS would be something I would expect on a £300 second user laptop.

Bartown22

Lol that's why I haven't spent more! Don't want to properly mess up, it does have 16gb ram though so more than college recommended ��