Dell inspiron 16 laptop For Photoshop

@katieemmamoore if you are a student (or even a past alumni with access to your school email address), you can also see if you can get the education discount. It can range from a $300 to $500... towards to a new Mac. And if wait until June, that's when the Back to School specials will start. Last year, not one student, not two students but four students got a new MacBook. The deal was the discount + a $200 gift card. One student would buy it, and sold his gift card to another student for $150. And then they get the deal, again, and sold it for another $150 and and onwards. It worked quite nicely for them!

Some past deals have been free iPods or Beats headphones! 

The specs are fine and on the face of it this should work well, but laptops generally come with some complications.

Most laptops come with dual GPUs, which sounds like an excellent idea on paper, but which tends to cause conflicts for Photoshop. You may need to disable any integrated GPU. This is a problem you don't have with a desktop.

Covered here (for future reference): https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/troubleshoot-gpu-graphics-card.html 

Another potential problem is that laptop vendors tend to modify operating system, hardware and drivers extensively. This is their chance to put their brand stamp on the product (all of which they get elsewhere). All this is mostly intended for gaming and the standard consumer-grade software. It can in some cases get in the way for Photoshop.

Go through all installed software and uninstall everything non-essential. For instance, uninstall any third-party antivirus immediately. All laptop vendors have special deals with Norton, McAfee and so on. You don't need it! Windows has excellent security built in nowadays, Microsoft pour enormous resources into this.

One specific issue with Dell that you should look into. Some of their models have a GPU/driver so modified that they can't use drivers from Nvidia. You have to use special Dell drivers. This is a red flag.

In general, pick a model that is as bare-bones and basic as possible - not in terms of spec, but in terms of configuration. If it's specifically marketed for gaming, avoid.