Best laptop for Photoshop/Lightroom?

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Looking for a Laptop to work with decent Canon 9125 Printer to get saleable quality sharp photo prints. Budget about 1300 quid. Needs storage for 10k RAW files and processing power to run PS/LR smooth and fast. Full HD screen minimum 15” ideal. Struggling with all the info overload, need some simple advice! UK only
 
Hi and welcome to TP

I'm not into laptop specs and hopefully others will advise :)

But can I ask, a Canon PIXMA 9125 ? I tried to find that one but does not seem to exist.... please can you clarify the model number???
 
For that budget I would get something like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-FX505...ds=ryzen+gaming+laptop&qid=1587837274&sr=8-21

And add a HDD, 1-2TB or whatever you might need

Gaming laptops will be very good for running LR/PS as they tend to come geared up with sufficient RAM [this one has 16GB] decent cpu and nice graphic cards - the RTX 2060 6GB card in this model would handle high end gaming no problem, but even if that's not your thing it'll lend a hand to running LR smoothly and fast too.

Or, I'd wait and see what the upcoming Ryzen 4000 laptops have to offer when released, they might be well above budget though
 
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Personally I would go for the new Asus G14....sorry but 14" screen.

It blows everything else in this price segment out of the water performance wise....and I have a £2300 MBP. That's where my money would go if I have no allegiance to Mac OS.
 
That looks a beast too, I didn't realise the ryzen 4000 laptops were released already

The Asus I linked above is better in some ways though, it would be for gaming - but specifically for LR the G14 would edge it

In depth review on it here

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNVoLFldxlA
 
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I prefer Macs so would recommend a MacBook Pro, but whatever you go for I would suggest i7 quad core processor or better, minimum 16GB RAM, decent 4GB graphics card or better, and an SSD. Not sure if you can get that in budget though.
 
snerkler said:
I prefer Macs so would recommend a MacBook Pro, but whatever you go for I would suggest i7 quad core processor or better, minimum 16GB RAM, decent 4GB graphics card or better, and an SSD. Not sure if you can get that in budget though.
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This is where the Ryzen chips come in, Ryzen can match intel's chips for less money - which means they can add juicier extras like better gpu in Ryzen equivalent machines
 
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There's 2 I'd suggest:

Dell G5 £940 + VAT https://outlet.euro.dell.com/Online/SecondaryInventorySearch.aspx?c=uk&cs=ukdfh1&l=en&s=dfh&sign=PXhcOSHtr1T4IOw/PR7Udb500OoCLTh0DRtfLywleWmuRMFk+eQdcIiRDLnJnWdY4Ql436+bm4NfBLRQkFFoBHoOkNNW4YdSXFavh19qXKMex31RMM/88ZWkjdWwKohOgR6To5H3hVWUpiC8AWwHAWsXNNlwMCvY6BTOTHxVcZKwvBUyTOLJHE6hSwBZO9K23paYJ8OfYYhezllCsH++1dkdfxJWIZjEItIRctEP3kOTEF9V8PGU4HfOXDN3ftyIVVzH2fW8cbcgYCGTScjzDA==

XPS15 7590 £1290 + VAT https://outlet.euro.dell.com/Online/SecondaryInventorySearch.aspx?c=uk&cs=ukdfh1&l=en&s=dfh&sign=PXhcOSHtr1T4IOw/PR7Udb500OoCLTh0DRtfLywleWmnWkFYG2+lL2wMPqwKRqkLCQ/wlrdo9ns6STebNwiidWZ8v8zAEv7oIo3IJYtV4lc7zTDUkORm0FTWgfYCiqoON+px5D4AhSTiQ8eFEhvC2+3Fyl6/izmiY1x01D34repgKuzHBpIglf33g0Jpo7zNnOAE20Eagif3cf0A6EZ9osKtf7mZKdF7BZmY4JHYYl8n/sQH2HT1I3cFH7qvvV5E

Performance wise there shouldn't be a lot in it, but the QHD screen of the XPS is a thing of beauty, and worth the extra £300 IF you're going to edit on the laptop screen.
 
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Cagey75 said:
That looks a beast too, I didn't realise the ryzen 4000 laptops were released already

The Asus I linked above is better in some ways though, it would be for gaming - but specifically for LR the G14 would edge it

In depth review on it here

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNVoLFldxlA
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Not a good screen for editing with around 65% sRGB and 40% adobe RGB gamut. Fine for use with an external screen though.
 
ancient_mariner said:
Not a good screen for editing with around 65% sRGB and 40% adobe RGB gamut. Fine for use with an external screen though.
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Maybe, I know when I'm editing in LR I hook my laptop up to an external HDTV which is much better for the job, OP may not want that hassle. Bu for the money it's a little beast and the screen is decent enough in general
 
As an alternate, if you're confident to do hard drives, memory and the OS, then refurbished workstations are another possibility. I put together an i7 Dell Precision 6800 with 32GB of memory and 6TB of storage for a bit less than $900 through a combination of eBay and Amazon.
 
I recently bought the new 16-inch Macbook Pro and my god does it fly!!
8 core i9 with 64GB RAM, I can be exporting hundreds of images from LIghtroom and work in Premiere Pro at the same time.

It's also an amazing looking piece of kit.

*edit* sorry I just re-read your original post and noticed the £1300 budget. A used Macbook pro can be bought for that price and will be very capable
 
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Whatever you choose, make sure there is plenty of RAM, fast processor and a SSD.
 
As for printers, unless you want to spend the time and money getting a calibration device, which you should anyway if your selling prints then simply don't.

Find a good print house, you will get great results at a fraction of the cost of printing your own.

I lost my computers and printers in a fire last September but I love printing my own so I ended up with a Canon Pixma pro 100S, and an I1 Xrite Studio. If it wasn't for the insurance money I'd not have gone back to photography as it would have been too expensive..
 
Unless UHD is a requirement I would recommend a Dell G3.
I've recently bought one with an intel i7, 16gb ram and a 512gb NVME SSD.
I've also fitted a second 2.5 WD 1tb SSD as well.
I'm probably going to upgrade the ram to 32gb as I'll also be using it for creating music and some of the soft synth libraries use hughe samples.
Dell have really surprised me and come a long way since I last looked at their products.
The support assistant app is great for updating drivers and quite fast at creating a recovery image.
 
hashcake said:
Unless UHD is a requirement I would recommend a Dell G3.
I've recently bought one with an intel i7, 16gb ram and a 512gb NVME SSD.
I've also fitted a second 2.5 WD 1tb SSD as well.
I'm probably going to upgrade the ram to 32gb as I'll also be using it for creating music and some of the soft synth libraries use hughe samples.
Dell have really surprised me and come a long way since I last looked at their products.
The support assistant app is great for updating drivers and quite fast at creating a recovery image.
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Agreed the dell g series are good value for money - especially for workstation applications
 
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