Best laptop to use for graphic design software

[Anonymous]

I think sometimes it's personal preference but there's also an element of what program's work best on what machine.

^This!!!!

Best for her to find out what software will be required for the course (is there an industry standard package that the course will be teaching?) then see if that influences the decision.

Macs do last a long time, but you pay a price premium for them in the first place.

Is she a Windows or Mac person to begin with? If she's only used Windows so far, then using a Mac will incur a learning curve (people say they are intuitive, and to a point they are, but its still a new OS to learn and get your head around).

Is budget actually an issue, or simply money no object/want the best for the job?

 

[budfox]

I think sometimes it's personal preference but there's also an element of what program's work best on what machine.

Unfortunately a decent bit of kit will cost be it a Mac or a PC. Your looking at around £1.5-£1.8k really.

Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere... they all run great under decent spec machines, regardless of whether that's a Mac or PC.

27" iMacs START at £1600.00, for the most basic machine. A price point which will buy this Chillblast machine:

http://www.chillblast.com/Chillblast-Fusion-Photo-OC-Lite.html - A machine with twice the RAM, twice the storage capacity, FAR greater ability to upgrade and a solid state drive. That would run any design application you throw at it without breaking sweat.

Leaving money for an excellent tablet:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wacom-Intuos-Medium-Graphics-Tablet/dp/B00EO0R4ZG

...and a superb IPS display from Samsung:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-S27C570HS-Monitor-300cd-1920x1080/dp/B00BFTRSOG/

I'm not an Apple hater, I think the iPhone and iPad are unrivalled, but I think an individual user has to have a VERY good reason to buy a Mac over a PC.

 

[aquazi]

I agree with the personal choice thing.

I was a windows user for years, then got a mba, 3-4 years ago and that let to a mb pro soon after.

However recently got a lenovo yoga 2 pro on win 8.1 and i am slowly converted.

Items which separate it for me...

OsX handle high res screens a million times better then windows... My yoga has a qhd+ screen and it looks beautiful... But windows does a terrible job a scaling.. Ps is unusable at the native resolution.. OsX on the other hand even with an inferior retina screen is much more usable.

However i prefer the leonvo hardware... With a touchscreen... Which is why i use it more (but lower the res to only 1920x1080)


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[domsz4]

on paper ive just bought a cracking spec machine from novotec, its not arrived yet so cant comment. decent spec with a quad i7, 16GB ram, 200odd gb SSD 1080 hd screen and a plethora of USB/card reader etc.

loving the comments about a mac "just" coping etc my experience of the student yoof is they need their latops mostly for farcebook and twitter...

i would say in the mac favor that they are better for heavy computational work. computational modelling in things like theoretical chemistry and sequencing all seem to run better on a mac.