Recent content by matt_wright

Hi - I’ve always used Lightroom (currently use LR6) to organise / catalogue my photos. Is there an equivalent sort of program to help organise and catalogue my videos? (Nothing fancy just stacks of videos from years past of family days out / holidays etc shot on anything from cameras, phones...

Thanks @ancient_mariner i think I’m going to seriously consider the LG. It’s my understanding from research that refresh rate doesn’t really matter for photo editing (and video editing) - so the fact that is one of the down sides of that monitor isn’t really a problem? I have a calibration...

The link that didn’t work was to this LG 4K UHD

Thanks - didn’t even realise Quad HD was a thing (is that better than FHD but not 4kUHD) how about this sort of thing from HP HP 27mq Thanks

Thanks for your comments so far @ancient_mariner and @JonathanRyan Would anyone else recommend that a 4K screen is needed / significantly better than the 1080p? This LG Monitoris probably just about in my budget (given you can lay over 5 months on this product on Amazon) - anyone any...

HI I currently have a HP 27fw monitor which I am very happy with. I've just bought a new PC - and need to new monitor to go with it (as I need the existing one on the current PC for a while) I was looking at the latest version of the one above which is the HP m27fw which is about £160 on Amazon...

Thanks again all Thanks for the advice. I haven’t considered eBay to be honest. I still don’t think I know enough to get what the right - but sounds like you hit a bargain there. when you talk about my ‘needs’ - I do wonder if they’ve been blown out of proportion. @ancient_mariner and anyone...

Thanks - I feel like with every bit I understand a tad more - another set of questions comes. I’ll keep an eye out and see what pops up. Did you have any idea about either a) the ease to update RAM on one of the lower spec models. Or b) the effectiveness of adding a cd drive to one of the...

If I went for something a tad cheaper like one of the two below - do you think I’d miss much? I actually thought maybe the cheaper of the two might be better (as newer processor). And then pay to upgrade the ram to make it 16gb (anyone know how easy this is to actually do - and possibly link a...

Thanks again for your comments and help (especially @ancient_mariner). so in very basic terms a M2 SSD is quicker to acces files etc ? so what would you loads on the SSD - and what would go on the ‘normal’ drive ? also I’ve just noticed (if I’m reading correctly) that none of these have a cd...

Edit - links don’t seem to have worked so have added screenshota Any thoughts of these two? This one looks pretty decent? (First photo) https://outlet.euro.dell.com/Online/InventorySearch.aspx?c=uk&cs=ukdfh1&l=en&s=dfh&brandid=7 This has better spec - but uses a different type of processor -...

Thanks for all your help and advice so far guys. Certainly getting a better understanding of what I need (well want). what does it mean when it talks about M2 storage? SSD (I know this means solid state - but what is that). And SATA? So priority would be processor and graphics card (assuming...

Thanks for the advice. How do you know what a decent / powerful graphics card is?

Hi - thanks for info - but really sorry the link didn’t take me to a specific computer. Would you be able to have a look again for me. Thanks

Thanks for advice so far guys. I’ve had a look at Dell refurb and seen this https://www.dellrefurbished.co.uk/item/dell-xps-8930-000006/dell-xps-8930/1.html Do you think this would be suitable? Has good storage, decent ram and i7. (4gb graphic card) How do you know if you can add extra RAM...