Suitable PC for Creative Cloud / Design

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October 6, 2021
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Hello.

I have been asked to find a suitable PC for a design studio to Run the suite of Creative cloud products. For their own reasons they dont want to go down the Apple route. Its not my real area of expertise but my supplier has suggested the following. The two cheaper models I will upgrade to 32gb of RAM. Could someone please tell me if these would be good options and which perhaps might be the best? Many thanks in advance.

This one seems the most powerful

https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/punch-technology-gemini-core-i7-11700kf-32gb-500gb-nvme-ssd-2tb-hdd-nvidi-gdt-705-1168/version.asp
Would stick an extra 16gb of RAM in this one
https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/punch-technology-intel-core-i7-9700kf-cpu-16gb-500gb-nvme-ssd-1tb-hdd-nvi-gdt-705-1166/version.asp

And

https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/acer-predator-orion-3000-core-i7-11700f-16gb-1tb-hdd-512gb-ssd-geforce-rt-dg.e2cek.005/version.asp

Would appreciate opinions and / or recommendations of anyuthing else.

Thanks

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Abambo

Community Expert

Any of those systems exceed the recommended configuration, so you should be OK. Personally, I find the 500Gb SSD limit today. But it will probably work for another couple of years. The only software that will challenge this configuration are Adobe Premiere and After Effects with the Adobe Media Encoder. And this only if you work with high-resolution videos (8k). So if that is the main task of these workstations, try to find answers in the video hardware lounge.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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defaultd7mnqj06ir7gAuthor

Participant

Bit more info. The current machine has just 4gb of RAM! The graphic designer accesses it remotely most of the time using Teamviewer and the main apps they use are

Illustrator

InDesign

Photoshop

They say they will subscribe to them all. Im just not sure I want to recommend an unknown brand and a gaming machine but as said all three are probably more than capable of running these apps.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Please ensure your computer meets or exceeds the minimum system requirements to run Creative Cloud + OS + all other apps you use. Check each one.
- https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/system-requirements.html

Pay particular attention to Photoshop's new GPU requirements. See links below.
- https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/system-requirements.html
- https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/photoshop-cc-gpu-card-faq.html

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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Lumigraphics

Legend

This was answered on Spiceworks. I personally would go with a top-tier OEM and not a small company.

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defaultd7mnqj06ir7gAuthor

Participant

Not sure it was really answered on Spiceworks. I was looking for suggestions on the machines I linked to but so far no answers on there. I kind of agree though that a known manufacturer would be better which is why I asked about the Punch systems as perhaps they are well known in this field but just not to me.

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