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Initially I felt like moving back to PCs for gaming from previously using consoles.
I don't play a huge lot of games, I play on average one game per year! And generally they are not the most graphic intensive.
From long back I have a nice collection of steam games which I would also be able to play again. Given how old they are 10+ years ago, they won't be most graphically demanding I guess.
I am not really interested in large towers. So the option is really a mini PC or a gaming laptop.
I already have a M1 MacBook Pro and it works pretty well for processing. The main annoyance is the odd times I need more than 16GB RAM and I find 512GB hard drive really limiting. I get over the latter limitation with a fast external NVME SSD.
So I was looking at something like a minisforum um790 below:
I already have a 2TB NVME and depending how much money I have left I'd get 32GB or 64GB RAM.
Just wondering how well it would perform with Lightroom and photoshop and if anyone has experience with a similar miniPC?
gaming laptops seem more money than I am wanting to spend plus I am rather happy with my MBP which I'd likely keep anyway for travels etc (15-20 hours battery life with smooth performance is hard to beat).
I can always just get the xbox series s for low £100s and be done with it.
I will need to continue putting up with slowness for the large stitches and stacks plus use external NVME but its not end of the world I guess....
I don't play a huge lot of games, I play on average one game per year! And generally they are not the most graphic intensive.
From long back I have a nice collection of steam games which I would also be able to play again. Given how old they are 10+ years ago, they won't be most graphically demanding I guess.
I am not really interested in large towers. So the option is really a mini PC or a gaming laptop.
I already have a M1 MacBook Pro and it works pretty well for processing. The main annoyance is the odd times I need more than 16GB RAM and I find 512GB hard drive really limiting. I get over the latter limitation with a fast external NVME SSD.
So I was looking at something like a minisforum um790 below:
Minisforum UM790 Pro
Minisforum UM790 PRO is Powered by AMD Ryzen™ 9 7940HS Processor and AMD Radeon™ 780M. Dual NVMe PCIe4.0 & Dual 40Gbps USB4. Intel® Killer™ AX1675 Wi-Fi 6E Network Card. The UM790 Pro Features An Innovative Cooling System That Actively Cools The Memory and SSD
store.minisforum.uk
I already have a 2TB NVME and depending how much money I have left I'd get 32GB or 64GB RAM.
Just wondering how well it would perform with Lightroom and photoshop and if anyone has experience with a similar miniPC?
gaming laptops seem more money than I am wanting to spend plus I am rather happy with my MBP which I'd likely keep anyway for travels etc (15-20 hours battery life with smooth performance is hard to beat).
I can always just get the xbox series s for low £100s and be done with it.
I will need to continue putting up with slowness for the large stitches and stacks plus use external NVME but its not end of the world I guess....