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- craigatkinson
Sorry to bring this argument up again...
My situation is this...I have a 2010 17"MBP i7 2.66 dual. 8GB. IT slows down with Lightroom / Indesign / Chrome all working as well as mail, cal etc.
I'm looking at the new MBP i7 Quad maxed, 16GB retina...£3k. Great!
I'm out of touch with Windows machines. What is the best processor at the moment, is there a laptop with or upgradable to 16GB, 1TB, V fast processor? Any suggestions? Will be working 10hrs / day + so needs to be reliable.
Sounds like a 'singles' ad now!
- sine0
i got an HP EliteBook 8540w (Mobile Workstation) at the beginning of last year. at the time it was one of the highest specced machines out there. Intel Duel Core i7 2.80 GHz, 8gb Ram and a Nvidia Quadro 3d accelerator... very happy with this machine. i use it for AutoCAD and Revit (3d) work mostly.
the only problem with this machine is it's battery life... it's "mobile" only in the sense that it's a very powerful machine that you can carry around, but the battery life sucks and performance when not plugged in is reduced.
- sorry, that doesn't really answer your question...sine
- good to get it off your chest though! hacraigatkinson
- craigatkinson0
I just v briefly saw the Asus weird 'gaming' laptop. I have no interest in playing games, but it looks like the power might work well for LR / PS / ID? I don't know how PC graphics stuff works though - coming from a mac. So perhaps gaming graphics isn't the same as flat image / non-moving and requires different resources?
- craigatkinson0
- the ultimate fighting machine apparentlycraigatkinson
- its a "gaming" machine just because it has a 660M GFX cardFallowDeer
- what does that mean?craigatkinson
- its a pretty good graphics card for a laptop, can compete with some mid range PC cardsFallowDeer
- FallowDeer0
I'm currently looking at buying a PC laptop and I've heard good things from the HP Elite range, but I have my heart set on a Lenovo Y580
http://www.johnlewis.com/2316568…
You can pick up the i7 version for £999
- mixed SSD HD and a good graphics card to handle video production etcFallowDeer
- I would deffo look into a laptop with SSD and 3rd gen i7 processorFallowDeer
- craigatkinson0
I should be asking in comparison to what I have 8gb- http://www.everymac.com/systems/…
- craigatkinson0
I heard HP should be avoided.
Are lenovo good?- come recommended from a few friends, but never owned one myself so couldnt sayFallowDeer
- Fax_Benson0
- how much did this cost? £FallowDeer
- 13"?craigatkinson
- every price I see is over £1,300FallowDeer
- 13.1 inch widescreen. £ depends on spec - mine was just over £2kFax_Benson
- sine0
also keep in mind windows 8 will be rolling out soon
- craigatkinson0
yes I heard that, is it meant to be worth waiting for?
- If you get a windows 7 laptop, you can upgrade for £15 when 8 comes out I thinkFallowDeer
- yes just read that, thankscraigatkinson
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- animatedgif0
Wait hang on...
"I'm looking at the new MBP i7 Quad maxed, 16GB retina...£3k. Great!"
So you're complaining how expensive a retina macbook pro is... then you're considering a machine that doesn't even come with a retina display instead.
- craigatkinson0
The retina display doesn't fuss me TBH. Yes it makes things on my screen look better but there will be so few other people with it that they will only see my work in a worse state than me. So no, not complaining, just backing out. I don't need retina display, my existing display is fine.
- craigatkinson0
and when you say 'a machine that doesn't EVEN come with a retina display', that'll be every machine except a MBP then!
- mekk0
CPU: i5 is fast enough and way cheaper, you will only notice a difference in rendering video or 3d.
RAM: Most of them are upgradeable but 16GB will be expensive!
Do you need it to last 10hrs unplugged?
- I got an i5 Dell laptop on craigslist for $350 because it had a scratched case lid... fixed it for $40 ebay parts! added RAM too!vaxorcist
- craigatkinson0
I just figured the better processor I get now the longer it will last.
RAM, my mac is chewed up with 8GB and 2.66 dual i7, so I figured 16 from crucial and installed by me would be best.
No, would be nice though - 10hrs. Half that would suffice. My MBP I get 2hrs from a battery they said would last 10!I'm ignorant with the workings and numbers of computers, as you can tell. I just use them and break them.
- Only 2 hrs? I almost have to call bullshit on that one.monospaced
- yeah maybe threecraigatkinson
- animatedgif0
> my mac is chewed up with 8GB
What are you using it for?
I mean I do heavy motion graphics and a fair bit of 3D with 4 just fine
- craigatkinson0
right now [average] I am using Lightroom 4 to edit large RAW files. Indesign / Bridge to layout a book, Chrome with 15 tabs open, itunes mail ical firefox as secondary browser, twitter, word / pages.
I use each of these things a lot of the time, daily so just leave them open.
- craigatkinson0
if I do some batch work on LR, or open Ps too than I can make a brew and drink it faster than edit a file.
- FallowDeer0
I would look at getting a laptop with an i5 processor, 8GB of ram (dont think you need 16GB) and a SSD - your probably going to get the most benefit from the hard drive boost than anything else.
Added bonuses are from a dedicated graphics card, so a 660M would be a good start if you decide on doing some motion work or 3D
- could probably get all this around the £1K mark or a little lessFallowDeer
- This is actually a downgrade from what he has, no?orrinward2
- 2010, so old 2nd gen processors etcFallowDeer
- mydo0
wow, that asus is 5cm high and almost 4KG.
I really thought technology would move faster than this.Is it too much to ask to get an i7 1TBSSD 16GB 660M at a sensible size? I just want one so it lasts me 5 years like my current laptop has.
- mydo0
anyone seen these?
http://www.vizio.com/thin-light/…