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Laptop for Art & Design student

  • 15-12-2018 9:03pm
    #1
    Butterfly182
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 109 ✭✭


    Hello,

    My brother is in the First Year of an Art & Design course in Limerick and needs to buy a laptop capable of running Adobe Aftereffects, Adobe Premier, and Photoshop. We are trying to find a laptop which we can afford which can do this.

    Any advice would really be appreciated as we are at a loss. I’ve done some preliminary research and it looks like we aren’t going to get anything under 1000 euro capable of doing this.

    Also what price are we talking about for the Adobe Aftereffects, Premier and Photoshop?

    Many thanks.


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  • #2
    Alanstrainor
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    The Dell 7000 series of laptops come very well spec'd for the money:

    https://www.dell.com/en-ie/shop/laptops/inspiron-15-7000-laptop/spd/inspiron-15-7580-laptop

    998eur gets you a fantastic processor, 512GB SSD, dedicated and capable graphics card and 8GB of RAM. The only spec there that is slightly lacking is the RAM, but I'd bet this would be adequate to get started.

    As with most applications of this type, a lot of it depends on what exactly they do with them. Premier and AfterEffects would make almost any laptop majorly sweat when pushed to the limit. These are pro grade applications and working with video is about the most intense type of job you can do on any computer.

    The machine I noted above will work well doing most tasks with these applications, I would even go as far as to say that any course that expects more would be ridiculous.

    It would also be worth looking into student discounts that might be possible through Dell. A lot of manufacturers do these and offer significant deals.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
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    the only thing is the graphics card in that pc is pretty weak. it's the mx130 which is a good bit below the mx150 (about 50%) and won't add a huge amount above what intel integrated graphics would provide.

    nice laptop tho.

    not super portable at 1.7kg but maybe that's worth it for the bigger screen size being a design student.

    I'd argue that the base model at 850 is better value as the i7 doesn't have that much over the i5 (~8%) and the ssd of 256 is already ok on the base model. no other difference. certainly not worth 150 euro imo


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