Jeffrey Isaac Greenberg Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 (edited) me: Lenovo P40 Yoga 14-15" since 2017; almost never an issue, but... other day dropped 3' table to hardwood floor; it slammed shut upon contact !! 😱__😱 !! energy absorption probably reason still works, thinly chipped plastic bordering top of screen... can't remember EVER dropping laptop since pre first ?1999? what new Lenovo or other reputable PC processes Photoshop the fastest...? (not Apple) thanks in advance Edited May 15 by Jeffrey Isaac Greenberg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve F Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 Ouch! Jeff, I feel your pain. The market changes every few months, so you have to do your research just when you need a new laptop. So without doing any recent research, and in almost complete ignorance 😝, I suggest you might want to look into the Dell XPS series. I have a Dell XPS 15 which is getting to be quite old now, but was billed as a Macbook killer when it was released. Had similar or better specs and was half the price of the equivalent by Apple. Depends how much you want to spend and what size screen. This looks tasty though: https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/laptops-2-in-1-pcs/new-xps-15-laptop/spd/xps-15-9530-laptop/bn95308sb you'll have to find the $ equivalent, it detected I'm in the UK... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill Morgan Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 As long as you get one with at least 12GB RAM, you will be good to go. I have an HP, and it's great. 500GB SSD. 14" . There are lots of good laptops to choose from. I don't use it as my main computer, I have a desktop I built myself for that, but haven't had any issues with the HP. Jill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKuzmin Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 (edited) Mr. Greenberg, even though I was not going to communicate with you, I would be happy to help if I could. I used several Dell, Lenovo, Sony, Toshiba laptops, and nothing was more reliable and durable than Dell XPS (do not confuse with Inspiron or Vostro). Last year got 13" and 15" for daughters, they both Photoshop although obviously not as fast as a desktop of similar config (I believe you know that). As such, I would recommend XPS 13" for best mobility or XPS 15" for better productivity (giving that they install a better graphics into 15" which is not suitable for 13" due to size and heat). For 15" right now Dell offers $750 discount (the machine would cost about the same as the 13" below but has RTX 3050 with 4G VRAM [mobile version] installed). Also note that the 13" XPS will have only USB-C but you obviously can use dongles as needed. Other specs for a ~$1400 laptop may be like this (I would never go back to using a laptop for graphics though, even with an external monitor...): XPS 13 Laptop Base XPS 13 (9315) Processor 12th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-1250U (12MB Cache, up to 4.7 GHz, 10 cores) Operating System Windows 11 Home, English Video Card Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics Memory 32 GB, LPDDR5, 5200 MHz, integrated, dual-channel LCD 13.4", FHD+ 1920 x 1200, 60Hz, Non-Touch, Anti-Glare, 500 nit, InfinityEdge Storage 1TB PCIe NVMe x2 Solid State Drive Onboard Headset Adapter USB-C to 3.5mm headset adapter Wireless Intel® Killer™ Wi-Fi 6E 1675 (AX211), 2x2, 802.11ax, Bluetooth® wireless card Power Cord Power Cord (US) Primary Battery 3 Cell, 51 Wh, integrated Edited May 15 by IKuzmin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sooth Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 (edited) I brought a 14" Lenovo x1 carbon gen 10 w i5 1240p CPU with a 100% sRGB IPS touchscreen in dec 2022. My thoughts on it... It's alright. I brought it to supplement an very old Dell XPS which I liked better and probably would have brought a new one were it not the fact the new XPS 13 only have two USB c ports. The Intel P chips drain the battery pretty fast on the X1, but not as fast as the top of line H chips which I would not recommend. In hindsight I should have gone with a U chip for battery efficiency in exchange for slower performance... So when the battery drains and you plug in the adapter, the laptop gets really hot, and the x1 has a small fan to try and dissipate the heat. Performance of the carbon X1 w i5 1240p chip is very good. I'm processing the newer canon .cr3 raw files which requires higher processing power, and the X1 is fast enough for my purposes. Always nice to have an updated new touchscreen to work on, colors are accurate out of the box... doesn't compare to a xps touchscreen.... with new laptop, able to maybe 2-3 hours of heavy photo editing and raw processing without plugging the laptop in... I opted to replace the SSD chip with a bigger,faster drive on my own. The bottom cover is a bit trickier to pop open than on an XPS. windows 11 is installed on the new laptop and it just makes the computing experience so much worse versus previous versions. Edited May 16 by sooth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKuzmin Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 1 hour ago, sooth said: new XPS 13 only have two USB c ports There is plenty of dongles available on the market for $15-40. 1 hour ago, sooth said: doesn't compare to a xps touchscreen.... New versions vary from 100% sRGB to 100% Adobe RGB. Calibration with Spyder did not improve it much, suggesting that it was good enough from the box. The only thing I had to disable immediately (in BIOS) was adaptive brightness, it corrupted colors dramatically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Isaac Greenberg Posted May 16 Author Share Posted May 16 thanks for responses thus far; much to digest! 👍 👍 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 I'd be sure any new laptop has WiFi 6 in addition to getting an USB-C to Ethernet gigabit adapter dongle mentioned. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Isaac Greenberg Posted May 16 Author Share Posted May 16 (edited) the brutal slowdown in me workflow, & this may be a scheme no one else follows, (but I don't want to change) is in Adobe Bridge when I edit & keyword with "filmstrip" on left, large view of selected image on right when I hit spacebar selected image fills screen** so I can inspect shake / poor focus etc & left click on full screen image blows up** an area even more... **these actions can take 20+ seconds each 😩__ 😩 😩__ 😩 to come into sharp focus -- are these delays unable to be sped up regardless of laptop power?? Edited May 16 by Jeffrey Isaac Greenberg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reimar Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 40 seconds to check for sharpness? That's crazy. I don't have Bridge anymore so I can't test, but it sounds like something is seriously wrong there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.Chapman Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 (edited) 1 hour ago, Jeffrey Isaac Greenberg said: the brutal slowdown in me workflow, & this may be a scheme no one else follows, (but I don't want to change) is in Adobe Bridge when I edit & keyword with "filmstrip" on left, large view of selected image on right when I hit spacebar selected image fills screen** so I can inspect shake / poor focus etc & left click on full screen image blows up** an area even more... **these actions can take 20+ seconds each 😩__ 😩 😩__ 😩 to come into sharp focus -- are these delays unable to be sped up regardless of laptop power?? A couple of questions... 1) Presumably that's working on RAW files? JPGs should be virtually instant. 2) What is the pixel size of your images? On my 2020 (pre M series) MacBook Air it takes 4 seconds to create 100% preview in Bridge of a Lumix RAW file that is 5184 x 3888 pixels using default processing in Bridge. But... if there's an xmp file with my standard preset image adjustments it takes about 16 seconds, which indicates the processing time is also strongly dependant on what image processing is being applied. My workflow circumvents this by batch producing jpgs from each RAW using a LR preset (while I'm doing something else). I can then quickly review the jpgs (with no delays and after basic processing has already been applied) and cull the JPGs (which also deletes linked xmp and RAW). Alternatively - check out FastRawViewer and do your focus check/culling with that. Mark Edited May 16 by M.Chapman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Isaac Greenberg Posted May 17 Author Share Posted May 17 (edited) 4 hours ago, M.Chapman said: ...working on RAW files? ...What is the pixel size of your images? whoops forgot to mention:looking at (4560 x 1440) DNGs Ta! PS. just noticed that left click zoom was set to 200%, so adjusting to 100% seems to cut in-sharp-focus wait time to ~10+ sec., still a bottleneck... Edited May 17 by Jeffrey Isaac Greenberg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve F Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 8 hours ago, Jeffrey Isaac Greenberg said: are these delays unable to be sped up regardless of laptop power?? Errrmmm.... you won't get delays like this with a top spec machine today (or even a bit of a lower spec). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.Chapman Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 6 hours ago, Jeffrey Isaac Greenberg said: looking at (4560 x 1440) DNGs Unusual size and format? Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandi Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 Do you want Windows 10 or 11? If you are happy with 10 there are some excellent discounts available over large range of laptops. Look at Amazon and set filter to the various Windows 10 options. We have several laptops in our household and just added a new Lenovo yesterday at a very reduced price, shipped from US to Australia with free shipping. We actually prefer Windows 10 and it keeps everything easy. Sandi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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