New laptop needed - any of these?

[JJ!]

So looking for a new laptop for light room and photoshop. I do not do anything crazy with huge images. Say batch editing 70-80 with set filters photos at most.

Not committed to windows or IOS, I don’t have any software that can’t be used on both.

I’m very much used to windows but have used macs all be it a long time ago.

Want it to be small and light, screen wise I can plug it is to my monitor for the rare times I need more screen.

These look like the best of the ones I can get. Are they overkill for casual editing or just about right?

 

[Craikeybaby]

The MacBook Pro is probably overkill - I have one, and a MacBook Air for work. There is no performance difference between them (both have 16GB RAM), so I would save some money and buy the MBA next time.

 

[Major Eazy]

@JJ! Any of those will do fine. Just consider going for as much RAM and SSD storage space as you can within your budget, but otherwise, generally the majority of the computers will do fine. You should decide on how you feel about screen size, weight and size of the laptop, the colour of it, etc.

The important thing is not to have too many application software open and running while you try to use Lightroom or Photoshop, as other application will hog the system resources.

Too often people buy the most powerful machine they can afford, few years later, they're upset that their machines is struggling and sluggish, so they think about a new machine, not realising that simple housekeeping of the hard drive is needed.

My mother once had a desktop computer, got fed up of it being too slow, and asked me for my advice on which new computers to buy. I decided to open my mother's computer, found so much dust inside, so I cleaned it all out. After that, I use most of those diagnosis software, like deleting junk files, defrag the hard drive, etc. When my mother used the computer, she remarked that it's fast, like it's new.

My advice to you is: Buy one of those that you can afford, as long as it got as much more RAM and SSD as possible, and make sure you take full responsibility for keeping your software organised so the software won't slow down the Lightroom or Photoshop work.

I would suggest avoid the 516GB SSD, and if you can afford to do so, go for the 1TB SSD, but otherwise, the RAM for all of them are fine.

Hope this helps?

 

[Sangoma]

I don't see processors detailed. There are some I5s that are much faster than some i7s. (on some software)

If you want to choose it for photo editing, that can make a huge difference

 

[Dael_Pix]

I'd go for a company where you can choose the components instead of those, like PCSpecialist.

 

[Deleted member 95430]

+1 what Craikey said

 

[LongLensPhotography]

I don't think you necessarily need i9 spec CPU, it doesn't appear like LR can utilise all the cores properly. i7 would be probably just fine, particularly if you can then add more RAM. 32GB is now really a baseline spec. 64gb is ideal. This is today. Tomorrow it will be more. I suspect ASUS one will be soldiered in, just like the apple. SSD on the other hand is a game changer. You can drop in the best NVME 4.0 2TB on day 1, or at any point in the future, while apple one is fixed and is ironically a common point of failure taking down the whole machine. So I would absolutely make sure you get a watertight and longest possible warranty on the apple.