Laptop for editing?

[SuzukiGS750EZ]

Currently have a laptop with a core i7, nvidia geforce gtx 960m with i believe 4gb ram, 16gb ram, windows 10 and a 1tb HDD. I tend to go overkill on things that i buy so it was a gaming laptop i purchased. I run corel paintshop pro, corel aftershot pro, Canon DPP and when doing so it lags a bit. Fresh install of windows, i think it may be a lack of ram to be honest. What out there without needing to take out a small loan will lend itself well to photo editing. It's about the most intense thing i do on a PC, i don't game. Wish i could afford an i9! Just curious what you guys use. I could build a gaming PC easily but i would also be spending 3k+. No clue what will get me by with photos while not making the process frustrating.

 

[snowbear98]

Currently, I have an old $200 Samsung with a Pentium B980 (no idea where that is in the lineup) and 4GM RAM. It handles Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC, though not very well if I try them at the same time. I've been trying to upgrade but can't swing it, yet. I plan on getting a 2-in-1 with i7, 16GB RAM (I'll max out at 32GB later), 512GB SSDD, 2TB HDD

 

[smoke665]

Following this as I will be upgrading this year also. One of the big questions is the video card. I'm finding that Adobe "says" many are "tested" but apparently that doesn't mean they work. They also say that using graphics acceleration isn't necessary, but then you find that several features in PS won't work without it. It's left me really scratching my head.

Pretty much all I've read says that SSD is the way to go for speeding up Adobe. Even more so than Ram.

 

[bogeyguy]

Currently have a laptop with a core i7, nvidia geforce gtx 960m with i believe 4gb ram, 16gb ram, windows 10 and a 1tb HDD. I tend to go overkill on things that i buy so it was a gaming laptop i purchased. I run corel paintshop pro, corel aftershot pro, Canon DPP and when doing so it lags a bit. Fresh install of windows, i think it may be a lack of ram to be honest. What out there without needing to take out a small loan will lend itself well to photo editing. It's about the most intense thing i do on a PC, i don't game. Wish i could afford an i9! Just curious what you guys use. I could build a gaming PC easily but i would also be spending 3k+. No clue what will get me by with photos while not making the process frustrating.

Corel is noted for being slooooow.

 

[smoke665]

Corel is noted for being slooooow.

Also for crashing in the middle of an edit. I used it up until 2 years ago, when I finally had enough.

 

[chuasam]

iPad Pro 9.7"

 

[snowbear98]

Pretty much all I've read says that SSD is the way to go for speeding up Adobe. Even more so than Ram.

That's my thought. I want dual drives - Solid State for boot & high demand apps, standard HDD for data storage and the older/slower apps.

 

[smoke665]

My oldest son, the resident computer guru in the family, suggested looking at a Hybrid drive, but I haven't been able to determine if Adobe will play nice with that or not. I do know they don't recommend the scratch disk being on the same drive as operating software uses for virtual memory unless it is a SSD. On the hybrid drives you don't get a lot of storage on the SSD so it may not be enough.

 

[snowbear98]

Well, in the older days of single drives, everything had to be on one. I'd venture to guess that most of the laptops are still just running one drive.

I think the hybrids aren't much more than a standard HDD with extra large solid state cache, but I have not really researched them. I plan on ordering mine (Dell 7000 15") with the SSD and add a WD Blue afterwards. I'll try to pick up the extra DRAM at the same time.

 

[smoke665]

@snowbear I'm going to try something on mine. Supposedly Ps doesn't give a rip where you put the scratch disk. In fact Adobe recommended a usb storage device. USB 3 supports up to about 5Gbs while a 7200 rpm HD tops out at about 160 Mp/s.

 

[snowbear98]

I'll do the same - I have a crapload of smaller USB thumb drives.

 

[BrentC]

I use a couple of USB-C Samsung T5 SSD so that I can connect it to multiple devices (PC, Laptop, NAS for backup,etc). It contains the LR catalog, images and scratch disks. Super fast and portable, its a tiny thing. This way no matter what device I have LR or PS on I can just connect the SSD and work away.

My main computer is a couple year old Dell XPS 13" laptop. i7 and 12GB RAM and calibrated display. No problems running LR and PS at the same time. When editing at home I use a calibrated 24" monitor attached to my docking station.

 

[smoke665]

I'll do the same - I have a crapload of smaller USB thumb drives.

Not sure that thumb drive has enough space on it, as it seems that PS assigns the space it requires, based on the number of images opened. Think you'll probably need an external HD.

 

[snowbear98]

I've never bothered to look at how much PS needs for the scratch file.
It's working for me, so I'm not too worried about it.

 

[smoke665]

I use a couple of USB-C Samsung T5 SSD

I assume these are the 1TB?? I read the PS will daisy chain them together, is this what you're doing??? Lastly are they partitioned or are you letting PS hog it all.