Laptop source?

[Sangoma]

Apart from PC Specialists, what laptop would meet the following, and must be under £1500 inc

17" 2560x1440 screen
i7 13620H
32GB RAM
NVIDIA RTX 4060 - 8.0GB video
2 TB 7000MB/s read primary drive
4 TB 5000 MB/s read secondary drive

Processor needs to be the 13620 and it must have two drive slots, otherwise specs could be higher, but not lower

It's really a mine field trying to find a system balanced for photo editing that comes in at a reasonable budget.

 

[JohnMcL7]

If you've found a company with that spec of laptop for under £1500, then I'd snap it up.

The 17in requirement severely limits choice because most gaming laptops are either 15.6in or 16in, are you meaning you specifically need that Intel processor or that is the minimum spec? Are you planning on installing the ram and storage yourself?

I usually recommend hotukdeals.com as there's usually a good range of deals posted to get an idea what's out there, there are some laptops close to your spec but not exact although not under budget - 6TB SSD on its own is a serious chunk of money.

Edit - I configured a laptop with your specs on pcspecialist and see it does come under £1500 which seems surprisingly good value especially their SSD prices which are usually way more than the cost of the drives. I couldn't get any other system I could find there was a deal on under budget and that was buying the parts separately although I've no idea what chassis that is the company are using.

 

[LongLensPhotography]

You are honestly being too specific. Those drives will almost certainly have to be installed by yourself. You will likely find some very budget 1TB or even 512GB version inside. So you will replace that, and install another one or more likely just plug an external one in.... So that these 2
As explained above you are probably looking at 16" because that is what they are now. resolution should be doable but you may as well just get 4k/retina.

Most places are really skimping on RAM and GPU so this will be a struggle. This may end up costing quite a lot ££££

And why such a budget CPU with everything else very high end? Unless you have a very particular reason to ask for this.....

 

[Sangoma]

You are honestly being too specific. Those drives will almost certainly have to be installed by yourself. You will likely find some very budget 1TB or even 512GB version inside. So you will replace that, and install another one or more likely just plug an external one in.... So that these 2
As explained above you are probably looking at 16" because that is what they are now. resolution should be doable but you may as well just get 4k/retina.

Most places are really skimping on RAM and GPU so this will be a struggle. This may end up costing quite a lot ££££

And why such a budget CPU with everything else very high end? Unless you have a very particular reason to ask for this.....

That CPU gives a good balance between performance (single core most important) power consumption (matters as the GPU will be hungry) and price.

I don't want external drives hanging off the machine (I have 3 hard drives in my present HP laptop)

I am aware of the RAM and GPUs in most offerings, and their hard disk sizes etc etc etc hence my question.

I am being quite specific to try and avoid things that would not be suitable, or over specced for what I want (like having a fast secondary drive)

 

[LongLensPhotography]

That CPU gives a good balance between performance (single core most important) power consumption (matters as the GPU will be hungry) and price.

in which case you would be looking for the latest gen chips or better still AMD or even another one from A I will not name