Laptop for Photoshop cc and Lightroom.

[jeffreyc36180129]

I'm looking to buy a new or used laptop for photo editing.  A lot of info on buying the latest laptop with maxed out i7 and 16gb ram and 2gb video cards. Is it really necessary?  I'm looking for a 15" laptop to travel with and edit photos. Not as a professional.  Any info on what is truly needed and even brands or models would be great. I shoot with a Nikon Dx format in raw.  I've looked at msi, Rog and most in between. Thanks for any info.

[bzareenk]

Here is a list of best laptops for running photoshop and lightroom. Hope you find it useful.

10 Best Laptop for Photo Editing 2016 (July)

[jeffreyc36180129]

Thank you for the link. I have read alot of reviews. Can anyone with actual experience tell me what they use and how they like it or if they would change laptops. Thanks again.

[davidc1815]

I use a Dell XPS 15 9550 as a second workstation. I  don't much like the UHD display.  Its high resolution makes scaling difficult and some plugins nearly unusable. I don't need it's wide colour gamut as I work in sRGB.  I had a lot of trouble assigning the Nvidia 960M card to the advanced graphics set up in Preferences/Performance - kept getting an error message and the Intel integrated card being assigned.  After some weeks and much, much hair pulling it fixed itself.  The laptop is quite speedy and handles CC2015.5 pretty well. It  is more clunky with the other program I work with a lot - Corel Painter 2016.  It's a nice laptop but I would not buy one with a uhd/4k screen because many plugins - like most of those from Topaz - don't scale properly with them. I guess all laptops have their own drawbacks (and advantages).

[Abambo · Accepted solution]

Minimal config, still workable: i5, 8 Gb, Intel graphic card, SSD drive.

My Laptop is a 17" ASUS (i7, Nvidia GTX 850m, 16 Gb, 1.5 TB disk). I did add a SSD as system disk and use an External USB3 connected SSD as workdisk. The 17" screen is big engough, but the Laptop is to heavy (sic). Works great when I'm out.

[jeffreyc36180129]

Thank you  for all the replies. Great info from everyOne.

[laptopn45971817]

Here's is a list of some best laptops for photo editing you can check:

http://www.bestlaptopninja.com/best-laptops-for-photo-editing/