Sootchucker
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HI guys, looking for a little advise on my current laptop. Whilst I have a decent Core i7 desktop in my study at home, most of my editing seems to be away from home (in hotel rooms) on my Laptop.
I currently have a 3 year old Dell XPS M1530 15.4" unit with the following specs.
Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 2.4 ghz Processor
8gb Ram
Nvidia Geforce 8600M GT Discreet Video card with 256mb dedicated memory.
256GB OCZ SSD Drive
Blue Ray drive
1TB USB External HDD
1440x900 Display.
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
If it makes any difference, my Windows index scores currently are as follows:
Processor - 6.0
Memory (Ram) - 6.0
Graphics - 5.7
Gaming Graphics - 6.1
Primary HDD - 7.1
Overall - 5.7
As I own a Nikon D800 with it's 36mb files, whilst it opens them up in Lightroom and PS pretty quickly, running Filters (i.e. Topaz Denoise 5 and Topaz Infocus) can take several minutes (2-3 minutes) on the full size images, which does seem an age when you are waiting for it to finish.
As the machine is now several years old, and has been superceeded by the Core I5 and I7 range of processors, I was wondering what sort of performance increase I would see for about a £1-1.5k laptop with a decent upper end processor and 8-16gb Ram ?
What I need to know is, if it takes about 2 minutes to run a filter on my current laptop, how long (approx) would it take on the newer more powerful machines ? If it's only a 30-40% increase, then I might as well keep what I have, but if it's say 2-4 times quicker, then it may be worth upgraded and splurging the cash.
For info, my most used software is
Lightroom 4.2
Photoshop CS5 (64 and 32bit versions)
Nikon Capture NX2
Photomatix Pro 4
As well as the usual office applications (i.e. Word, Excel and Outlook)
Anyone have any ideas ?
I currently have a 3 year old Dell XPS M1530 15.4" unit with the following specs.
Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 2.4 ghz Processor
8gb Ram
Nvidia Geforce 8600M GT Discreet Video card with 256mb dedicated memory.
256GB OCZ SSD Drive
Blue Ray drive
1TB USB External HDD
1440x900 Display.
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
If it makes any difference, my Windows index scores currently are as follows:
Processor - 6.0
Memory (Ram) - 6.0
Graphics - 5.7
Gaming Graphics - 6.1
Primary HDD - 7.1
Overall - 5.7
As I own a Nikon D800 with it's 36mb files, whilst it opens them up in Lightroom and PS pretty quickly, running Filters (i.e. Topaz Denoise 5 and Topaz Infocus) can take several minutes (2-3 minutes) on the full size images, which does seem an age when you are waiting for it to finish.
As the machine is now several years old, and has been superceeded by the Core I5 and I7 range of processors, I was wondering what sort of performance increase I would see for about a £1-1.5k laptop with a decent upper end processor and 8-16gb Ram ?
What I need to know is, if it takes about 2 minutes to run a filter on my current laptop, how long (approx) would it take on the newer more powerful machines ? If it's only a 30-40% increase, then I might as well keep what I have, but if it's say 2-4 times quicker, then it may be worth upgraded and splurging the cash.
For info, my most used software is
Lightroom 4.2
Photoshop CS5 (64 and 32bit versions)
Nikon Capture NX2
Photomatix Pro 4
As well as the usual office applications (i.e. Word, Excel and Outlook)
Anyone have any ideas ?
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