New laptop recommendations

dharn

Thinking of buying a laptop to replace a dell 3000 desktop that has died, I do some photo editing, with picasa etc dont have aything as heavy as photoshop but would like a laptop that could handle it , good screen resolution is important no other major requirements im sure hdmi out is standard nowadays, not a fan of apple, any recommendations

sebphoto

What's your budget?

dharn

Ballpark ,.. 500 to 700

sebphoto

There are plenty options all depends from your requirements - screen size & type, brand, purpose, keyboard, portabilityetc.
Maybe it's worth to consider another dell? e.g. http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-15-7537/pd?ref=PD_Family ?

dharn

What is the most impotrant aspect for something like photo editing ram ,? does an i5 have any advantage over i3 I have an external hard drive, so storage is not hugely important not into online gaming just ordinary browsing, youtube etc

sebphoto

dharn wrote: »

What is the most impotrant aspect for something like photo editing ram ,? does an i5 have any advantage over i3 I have an external hard drive, so storage is not hugely important not into online gaming just ordinary browsing, youtube etc

For photo editing you should get better cpu. When you see laptop in good price with i7 cpu then first thing to check is cpu microarchitecture as it might be old.
To get better understanding what is better in terms of performance see this link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core

draiochtanois

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sebphoto

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My Lightroom consumes 100% CPU 90% of time, but I have only C2D 2.8, while memory usage is circa 50% (i have 8GB).

draiochtanois

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sebphoto

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I do have SSD.

moodrater

dharn wrote: »

What is the most impotrant aspect for something like photo editing

The screen! Fastest machine in the world can't make up for a crap screen.