Hello All,I am planning to buy a new Laptop (budget 3k USD), need help in deciding which brand and what spec I should be looking for.My usage pattern is running -Adobe CC tools + Rhino 7 + Keyshot 11 + Microsoft Outlook & Teams all running simultaneously.My existing current Laptop config -Dell Precision 5530Intel i7-8850H CPU @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHz64 GB RAMIntel UHD Graphics 630 + NVIDIA Quadro P2000 Graphics Card1 TB SSD Here are some issues I am facing with my current laptop:This is a 4 year old laptop and now I am feeling the performance has degraded especially after Rhino 7 upgrade. I had to roll back Rhino 7 updates as it started crashing (Blue Screen).Sometimes Rhino crashes and when I restart the rhino the model appears metallic finish in Shaded mode then I have to restart the laptop to bring the rhino display back to normal.Whenever I check graphic card usage in task manager only Intel GPU is used and NVIDIA GPU appears idle, not sure why.Can anybody help if any setting I need to tweak to resolve above issues? Also can you suggest which new Laptop I should buy and what config is recommended if want to run Adobe CC tools + Rhino 7 + Keyshot 11 + Microsoft Outlook & Teams all running simultaneously. Regards, Tejas Pawar

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New Laptop/ Desktop Purchase Recommendations

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January 13, 2023
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Hello All,

I am planning to buy a new Laptop (budget 3k USD), need help in deciding which brand and what spec I should be looking for.

My usage pattern is running -
Adobe CC tools + Rhino 7 + Keyshot 11 + Microsoft Outlook & Teams all running simultaneously.

My existing current Laptop config -
Dell Precision 5530
Intel i7-8850H CPU @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHz
64 GB RAM
Intel UHD Graphics 630 + NVIDIA Quadro P2000 Graphics Card
1 TB SSD

Here are some issues I am facing with my current laptop:

This is a 4 year old laptop and now I am feeling the performance has degraded especially after Rhino 7 upgrade. I had to roll back Rhino 7 updates as it started crashing (Blue Screen).
Sometimes Rhino crashes and when I restart the rhino the model appears metallic finish in Shaded mode then I have to restart the laptop to bring the rhino display back to normal.
Whenever I check graphic card usage in task manager only Intel GPU is used and NVIDIA GPU appears idle, not sure why.

Can anybody help if any setting I need to tweak to resolve above issues?

Also can you suggest which new Laptop I should buy and what config is recommended if want to run Adobe CC tools + Rhino 7 + Keyshot 11 + Microsoft Outlook & Teams all running simultaneously.

Regards,

Tejas Pawar

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NB, colourmanagement

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@Tejas Pawar I'd prefer a desktop, they tend to be better value and more importantly, laptop screens have some shortcomings for imaging due to variations in appearance of onscreen images as a result of viewing angle. The appearance changes when you sit lower or higher meaning that many laptop owners need to add an external screen for accurate work. If portability is not vital - go for a desktop. Careful with the video card choice, have a look here:

Adobe writing on GPU (video card) issues.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/troubleshoot-gpu-graphics-card.html

I hope this helps
neil barstow, colourmanagement net - adobe forum volunteer - co-author: 'getting colour right'
google me "neil barstow colourmanagement" for lots of free articles on colour management

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Simmer1

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Hey,

If you are your looking for a new Laptop to run CC software seemlessly I would say have an extensive look online and check reviews of other creatives who use particular laptops to run Creative Cloud software.

D Fosse

Community Expert

There are two critical factors for Photoshop:

One, the GPU. Dual graphics, very popular with laptops, is a problem waiting to happen. The reason is that Photoshop uses the GPU for actual data processing, and the result returned to Photoshop for further processing. There can only be one GPU in that equation. You can't send data to one and get it back from the other. It's not a simple downstream flow.

The GPU doesn't need to be super powerful, but it has to support advanced functions. A P2000, which I used myself for years, is now at the very end of its useful life. I replaced it with an RTX 3060, fairly mid-range, which works splendidly and probably will for many years.

Two, disk space. Usually underrated. Raster image editing moves huge amounts of data, much more than any RAM you may have installed. All that data has to go somewhere, and so Photoshop writes to disk. This is known as Photoshop's scratch disk. Note that this exceeds actual file sizes by several orders of magnitude. The scratch file contains all history states for all open documents, plus overhead.

For most normal work, you'll need somewhere between 200 - 500 GB free disk space at all times. For serious work on big files, make that 1 TB or more.

The rest isn't critical. 32 GB RAM is pretty much standard and will work well. Any i5 or i7 should basically work well - Photoshop is normally not CPU-limited (Lightroom, however, is, if you intend to use that). BUT - and this is just my personal impression from reading the forums - there seems to be disproportionately many performance problems reported from AMD Ryzen systems. I'd go for Intel just to be safe.