Need a new laptop

[Barbara]

     After another week of tearing my hair out fighting my almost deceased lappy. A new laptop is now on my hit list.

I need help and advice choosing, Top budget £400, not bothered about bells & whistles, just something that will handle Lightroom & Elements with speed & alacrity. At the moment this is catching my eye

http://www.johnlewis.com/acer-aspire-es1-711-laptop-intel-pentium-8gb-ram-1tb-17-3-black/p1749203 

 

But I don't have a clue and if I can save a bit of dosh, all the better

 

Thanks in advance

Edited March 16, 2015 by blackrox

[NannyFerret]

That looks good, Barbara.

The specs are higher than the new Asus desktop that I have just bought, and I'm finding that it's already pretty fast, so I think you would be happy using this with double the ram.

All of the programs that I have in styled have all worked well so far.

It was good to ask people on here as they helped a lot.

I was glad that the one that I got had the Intel processor and not the AMD one too, as I was told that the Intel would suit better for photo editing.

I don't think you would be disappointed with this one, and I'm sure that the people on here will tell you more.

[Barbara]

Thanks Tina, at the moment anything has to be better than my old one. I have come home with about 300 images and even my desktop is groaning a bit  Looking at the spec the power seems to be there but not sure about the resolution 1600 x 900  

Edited March 17, 2015 by blackrox

[JHFoto]

Sounds a bit expensive to me.....

[Barbara]

I was just going to add that laptops aren't the best for image processing as you need a really good monitor and graphics. 

 

I use my laptop as  a 'lazy' backup - when I'm downstairs in the living room watching tele, etc. All my photo files and up to date software are in my workroom on my desktop. Have external drives for back up!

 

 

Judy

Thanks Judy, I love my photography but it is just a hobby for me, although I now do back everything up on an external drive , I spend about one week in four at our caravan and just like to run any images through LR on a daily basis or knock up a bit of video for friends or maybe just upload a few to FB. (Much better than watching daytime TV when the weather is foul ).  I shoot RAW so nothing is lost and can always refine things when I get home. 

A big plus for "Himself" he wont have to wait for my seat to trawl Ebay when we are at home 

 

Barbara

Edited March 17, 2015 by blackrox

[NannyFerret]

http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/products.aspx?cat=0&subcat=614&brand=8

 

You could have the best of both worlds.
Here's the desktop base unit that I got, Barbara, so you could update your desktop for £220 and still have enough to get a cheap netbook for your holidays.
The most I take on holiday is my 10" MSI netbook. It was under £150 from Argos and I edit picture well on it, although I will use the desktop more now as it's so much faster than my old one.

 

You can still add an external mouse to a netbook too.

Edited March 17, 2015 by NannyFerret

[Barbara]

Well I finally settled for this

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/toshiba-satellite-l50-b-1nx-15-6-laptop-white-10011279-pdt.html#longDesc

Have to admit I am over the moon with it, love the full size keyboard , have loaded Lightroom and all my topaz plugins and PSE9,

CRIKEY!!! it's faster than my desktop   

[NannyFerret]

That looks brilliant, Barbara. I hope you have lots of enjoyment with it.

I am enjoying the extra speed with my new PC too and I'm amazed how much faster it is to my old one.