Sub £500 laptop for photography

[Jonesgj]

Dear forum,

What would you recommend as a sub £500 laptop suitable for running Photoshop CS etc...

I have a large monitor and lots of storage so it's really about the processing power I think.

Would you recommend Athlon or Intel processors?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Dave450]

Intel Dual Core is what I have on my processing laptop, seems to do the trick for me when Im away from my main station couple that up with 4gb memory and im sorted

 

[neil_g]

its amd not athlon, athlon is a model of amd processor that was phased out some time ago

to be honest it doesnt really matter but you want at least 2 cores in either flavour.

 

[Jonesgj]

Intel Dual Core is what I have on my processing laptop, seems to do the trick for me when Im away from my main station couple that up with 4gb memory and im sorted

Thanks Dave. I have Intel Dual Core at the moment, and bought specifically for business programming/database type work, but it a little dated and wanted to ungrade my hobby PC.

its amd not athlon, athlon is a model of amd processor that was phased out some time ago

to be honest it doesnt really matter but you want at least 2 cores in either flavour.

Thanks Neil. Yes AMD ... less haste more speed when typing The whole athlon, turon (?) thing confused me, though I seemed to understand the Pentium, celleron, 'centrino' thing better.

I know a little while ago certain processors were considered better for some things and not for others. I've always stuck with Intel for business, hence my question now.

 

[neil_g]

if youre looking to upgrade from a dual then it has to be a quad.. the intel q9550 is great bang for your money.

the whole amd/intel thing is a bit swings and roundabouts these days. personally all my machines are intel (1x Q9550 2.85 quad, 1x E2200 2.2 dual, 1x P8600 2.4 dual centrino), but i hear good things about amds quads too. but obviously if youre keeping your base machine thatd mean a motherboard swap. whereas the dual and quad share the LGA775 socket type. (unless you want the newer i5/i7 processors).