Find me a laptop

[x-pack]

Right lads, I need a new laptop...

Primarily it'll be for editing photos so doesn't need to be too fancy. Ideally a DVD drive would be good although I know that's a bit old fashioned. It's just for installing Photoshop and burning discs.

Budget is under £500. Ideally Windows not Mac.

Can anyone reccomend something suitable?

Cheers

 

[StarWarsFan]

HP, Levano, Asus, Dell all good makes. SSD, MIN 8GB RAM, min i3 CPU.

 

[lejackal]

You might be better to get the laptop and buy an optical drive separately as not many come built in the last time I looked.

 

[edd_jedi]

You might be better to get the laptop and buy an optical drive separately as not many come built in the last time I looked.

Yes good advice, you can get decent external USB drives for about £20 now.

At your budget the main thing you want is an SSD hard disk, don't be fooled by 'higher capacity' mechanical hard disks that many budget laptops come with which are a lot slower but look appealing due to their size. 8+ GB RAM. And for the processor rather than looking out for i3/i5/i7 what you need to know is what generation processor it is. The current is 10th, so you really don't want to buy anything older than 8th generation (look at the first number after the dash, eg i5-8250 for an 8th generation i5 processor.) For photo editing a high resolution (4k or equivalent) display would be useful, but you might struggle to get one for £500.

 

[theforceuk]

£500! HOW MUCH! :lol:

 

[x-pack]

Cheers lads. It's a baffling world computery things when you haven't got a clue. But I can put a list together of what to look for. My last one was a Sony Vaio that only cost about £400. Lasted years and did everything I wanted it to.

 

[Sundancer Squadron]

Never had an issue with PC specialist.

https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/thin-light-laptops/

 

[StarWarsFan]

Cheers lads. It's a baffling world computery things when you haven't got a clue. But I can put a list together of what to look for. My last one was a Sony Vaio that only cost about £400. Lasted years and did everything I wanted it to.

First time have heard anything positive said about a Sony Vaio.

 

[x-pack]

Cheers lads. It's a baffling world computery things when you haven't got a clue. But I can put a list together of what to look for. My last one was a Sony Vaio that only cost about £400. Lasted years and did everything I wanted it to.

First time have heard anything positive said about a Sony Vaio.

Honestly I never had any issue with it. Worked very well for photoshop

 

[StarWarsFan]

Cheers lads. It's a baffling world computery things when you haven't got a clue. But I can put a list together of what to look for. My last one was a Sony Vaio that only cost about £400. Lasted years and did everything I wanted it to.

First time have heard anything positive said about a Sony Vaio.

Honestly I never had any issue with it. Worked very well for photoshop

Fair enough