Laptop recommendation needed

Metal God · 22 Aug 2014

I'm looking to replace my laptop PC but I'm somewhat overwhelmed by the choice out there.

It doesn't have to be super-fast, just adequately equipped to run PS and with about 4gb of RAM. Can anyone make any recommendations? My budget is about £350.00.

Also, if you can recommend a good reseller, that would be fab too.

ricky1980 · 22 Aug 2014

Go to dell outlet or watch out on second hand market. 4GB ram is probably low for PS.

Joeturner11 · 22 Aug 2014

4GB ram will be okay for photo editing as long as you have a SSD

dean messenger · 22 Aug 2014

+1 on dell outlet, i got my i7 with 8gb ram, 1tb hard drive and RGB led screen on there for under £500 ( should have been £1300 ) and all that had been repalced was the external PSU

arad85 · 23 Aug 2014

Wouldn't buy a machine with 4G today. 8G at least.... Lightroom will be OK in 4G if that's all you run though.

Metal God · 23 Aug 2014

Thanks y'all. I'll check the Dell site.

My old laptop runs CS5 quite well on less than 3gb of RAM, so I think 4 should be fine.

ricky1980 · 25 Aug 2014

LR will be OK but not Photoshop etc. Also many addons are massive memory hungry. If you want them running at the background you will need at least 8GB

gerryrys · 25 Aug 2014

I have one of these on which I run Photoshop and lightroom CC and it flies. The new ones are slightly over your budget but have an i7 processor instead of the i5 in mine. They are very solidly built and well worth the money. I am in the second year with mine and love it, the only exception being the touchpad which occassionally has a mind of its own.