I suggest a site like https://www.laptoparena.net/laptop-finder to select your specs and narrow down the choices. There are hundreds if not a thousand current or recently discontinued models available. I can make a case that everyone should have 2-3 different laptops for different puposes.
Any laptop that's good for photography (accurate display, decent amount of storage and RAM, etc.) is going to also be very good the "general" use, but a laptop designed for general use is not necessarily going to be good for photography, so I'd look specifically at those designed for graphic design and photography first and foremost.
As for recommendations, it's like asking which car to buy. Everyone's going to have their preference and opinion based on their own wants and needs, so you need to give a bit more to go on like price range and any size/weight limitations you might have
If you need it for the photo editing, any laptop with the 16gb of RAM would do it. If you are planning to edit videos, I would go for machines with leas 32Gb of RAM. As of today I would buy "Acer Swift Go 14", one of my friends got it earlier this year and it seems a very capable little demon...
tester_V wrote:
If you need it for the photo editing, any laptop with the 16gb of RAM would do it. If you are planning to edit videos, I would go for machines with leas 32Gb of RAM. As of today I would buy "Acer Swift Go 14", one of my friends got it earlier this year and it seems a very capable little demon...
By photo editing do you mean image processing? Image processing is often looking for a strong GPU for noise reduction, etc. Ideally that would be a discrete GPU or at least the strongest iGPU you can get. Ultimately you have to decide how much to invest into a laptop vs. a desktop. I prefer relatively low cost, lightweight laptops and do the power lifting on a home system with nice display.
That Acer seems to only offer older generation CPUs in that Swiftly 14" at the moment. I'd be looking at 255H or better in Q3 2025.
Well, "image" is a picture in any photographer book, especially if you work with a client, people get confused if you will start talking abut images. I'm just raying to be very simple with people, they feel better if I sound as a simple strait forward guy.
I got a Lenovo laptop:
Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS with Radeon Graphics (16 CPUs), ~3.2GHz
Memory: 16384MB RAM
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GP
It is about 2 years old but still can process about 1500 pictures, with both PR and PS open, in about 4 hours. Of course I use heavily my own resets, it speeds up process greatly.
By the way after all of this, I still have some power in the battery, to make some "presentation" pictures and get some news, and more....I really like this laptop.
One more thing, I'm not into the videography, but sometime I have shoot 4K short videos, and this little daemon of a Laptop, has no problems with it too...
Do I feel like I need something more powerful? Yes, if I have to do heavy video editing but for IMAGES , not really...
Cheers!
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