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Hi, I'm looking for a laptop in the price range of £700-£1000 for my photo editing work in lightroom. It needs to have a 15.6 inch colour accurate screen, a good processor, and a good amount of RAM. I also do not mind buying second hand. Please could you guys suggest some laptops that would fit the parameters I have set and that are generally quick and reliable for photo editing tasks.

Thanks alot,
Andrew Sutcliffe.
 
Yep. I’ve recently bought one of these (eBay listing) 132740865042

It’s Brill..
 
Dell XPS 15, from the Dell outlet store. Note that screens on laptops often tend to offer less that ideal colour and tonal accuracy, although they may get better if calibrated. avoid any screens that are not IPS panels.
 
I wouldn't get an Acer that's for sure. I spent £1000 on my Acer V3771g about 4 years ago, got it because of the 17" display, and it's also got an i7 processor. Great laptop when it works!! It's had to be repaired numerous times, it's actually away for repair right now, at the cost of £180 - I wouldn't bother only to get one near as good would cost me over triple that.

For your budget I would get something like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-FX504...UTF8&qid=1535316443&sr=8-3&keywords=i7+laptop
 
Got me a Dell XPS 15 recently, it's stunning.
 
I had parameters similar to that when I went shopping for a photo editing laptop in late 2016. I decided on an Asus Zenbook UX330UA. It cost me £750. It came with an Intel i5-6200 processor, 8GB RAM, 3200 x 1800 display with excellent colour accuracy and a wide angle of view, 256GB silicon disk. I've no idea if there are better machines out there for the price, but I love it. It's exceeded my expectations in every way. Especially pleased with the display. It passes the rather hard test of my being able to photograph a printed photograph, hold the original photo beside the screen (appropriately adjusted in brightness to match the ambient) beside the screen, edit the image so that they look the same, then print it, and have the print look the same as the original. No calibration needed.

It did come with some rather annoying software which soon kept insisting that my free trial had run out and I needed to buy this or that essential software to keep things working. All lies. I found out how to kill some of them, and I guess the others just got fed up pestering an unco-operative customer.

I archive my photos on a pair of external hard disks, plus for working storage of lots of big images and some very large text files I often carry around a tiny USB-powered 1TB external hard disc. I recently filled up my last pair or archive discs and bought a new pair, as usual physically smaller, logically bigger, and faster than before, and just discovered to my delight that I can copy big folders of images to them via USB 3.0 at 100GB a second.

No doubt there's even better stuff out there today. I'm so pleased with it that if I was buying again today I'd start looking at the models in this range.
 
Cagey75 said:
How much, because looking around it's above OP's budget
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Around £1k from the Dell Outlet, although I think they had a sale too.
 
chris malcolm said:
I had parameters similar to that when I went shopping for a photo editing laptop in late 2016. I decided on an Asus Zenbook UX330UA. It cost me £750. It came with an Intel i5-6200 processor, 8GB RAM, 3200 x 1800 display with excellent colour accuracy and a wide angle of view, 256GB silicon disk. I've no idea if there are better machines out there for the price, but I love it. It's exceeded my expectations in every way. Especially pleased with the display. It passes the rather hard test of my being able to photograph a printed photograph, hold the original photo beside the screen (appropriately adjusted in brightness to match the ambient) beside the screen, edit the image so that they look the same, then print it, and have the print look the same as the original. No calibration needed.

It did come with some rather annoying software which soon kept insisting that my free trial had run out and I needed to buy this or that essential software to keep things working. All lies. I found out how to kill some of them, and I guess the others just got fed up pestering an unco-operative customer.

I archive my photos on a pair of external hard disks, plus for working storage of lots of big images and some very large text files I often carry around a tiny USB-powered 1TB external hard disc. I recently filled up my last pair or archive discs and bought a new pair, as usual physically smaller, logically bigger, and faster than before, and just discovered to my delight that I can copy big folders of images to them via USB 3.0 at 100GB a second.

No doubt there's even better stuff out there today. I'm so pleased with it that if I was buying again today I'd start looking at the models in this range.
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Thank you for this class reply. That sounds absolutely perfect for me, thank you very much. Two questions: Does it handle lightroom quickly, is it quick and lag free or slow and cumbersome like my PC? Does it have a direct SD port? Thanks again for your great suggestion!
 
Andrew Sutcliffe said:
Thank you for this class reply. That sounds absolutely perfect for me, thank you very much. Two questions: Does it handle lightroom quickly, is it quick and lag free or slow and cumbersome like my PC?
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Sorry, never used Lightroom. I upgraded from an ancient PC which was stuck on Windows XP and had become very tediously slow. This laptop is very much faster, sometimes astonishingly so, but that's hardly surprising. Also it enabled me to upgrade my image processing programs from old outdated XP versions to later Windows 10 versions, so I can't really make direct comparisons.

Does it have a direct SD port? Thanks again for your great suggestion!
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Yes, an SD port. Note by the way that it doesn't have an ethernet port, but does come with a free USB dongle which translates ethernet to USB 3.
 
chris malcolm said:
Sorry, never used Lightroom. I upgraded from an ancient PC which was stuck on Windows XP and had become very tediously slow. This laptop is very much faster, sometimes astonishingly so, but that's hardly surprising. Also it enabled me to upgrade my image processing programs from old outdated XP versions to later Windows 10 versions, so I can't really make direct comparisons.



Yes, an SD port. Note by the way that it doesn't have an ethernet port, but does come with a free USB dongle which translates ethernet to USB 3.
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Thanks again for the reply. I am now very much interested in purchasing this laptop. As long as it is fast, that will suffice for me. How many USB ports does this laptop have? Amazon does not seem to give much detail for this laptop.
Thanks again.
 
Andrew Sutcliffe said:
Thanks again for the reply. I am now very much interested in purchasing this laptop. As long as it is fast, that will suffice for me. How many USB ports does this laptop have? Amazon does not seem to give much detail for this laptop.
Thanks again.
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It's got two of the big standard rectangular slots, both USB 3, and what looks like a smaller USB socket I haven't checked out. Suggest you look on ASUS web pages for a complete technical spec.
 
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