Gelsons Dad
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Mac is the industry standard for photography and page making. A good spec Macbook Pro would be recommendation but of course pricey.
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Laptop for photo editing and WFH
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Mac is the industry standard for photography and page making. A good spec Macbook Pro would be recommendation but of course pricey.
They went up to silly prices a few years ago in the U.K. I wouldn’t recommend them to anyone unless their place of work is paying for them.
Tricky_Trev
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Is there nothing around the £700 mark that fits the bill? I’m hesitant to go into 4 figures. Unless it’s super reliable and would give me several years more use than something 3 or 4 hundred quid cheaper.Mac is the industry standard for photography and page making. A good spec Macbook Pro would be recommendation but of course pricey.
Advise to any one... do not get serious about photography as a hobby unless you are wadded! Already have photography gear worth £3-4k but it took me forever to build it up. Then you need a laptop that’s over a grand too, to run the software. Expensive thing to enjoy!
Gelsons Dad
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Would love to help but i know 3 professional photographers and several national Journalists/subeditors. They all use Mac......Is there nothing around the £700 mark that fits the bill? I’m hesitant to go into 4 figures. Unless it’s super reliable and would give me several years more use than something 3 or 4 hundred quid cheaper.
Advise to any one... do not get serious about photography as a hobby unless you are wadded! Already have photography gear worth £3-4k but it took me forever to build it up. Then you need a laptop that’s over a grand too, to run the software. Expensive thing to enjoy!
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Where would you recommend buying second hand laptops from, safe in the knowledge you aren’t being fleeced? What sites are good?Desktops are much more powerful performance wise and upgrade wise, most integrated graphics now would easily shift any photoshop task with ease (You'd stick in 16 gig of ram to ensure that) if you don't want RGB lights and go for the austere look a half decent ITX build can come in for £400.
Portability costs but if you do want that power without paying the silly prices then good second hand is the way to go, personally I would never buy a laptop new.
mexico1970
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Where would you recommend buying second hand laptops from, safe in the knowledge you aren’t being fleeced? What sites are good?
I have ordered from these before it's a good company IMO and sell PC's Laptops and Apples. Plus it's based in Manchester and gives you next day delivery.
https://www.gigarefurb.co.uk/
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[QUOTE="Tricky_Trev, post: 12593223refurbished-laptops
ere would you recommend buying second hand laptops from, safe in the knowledge you aren’t being fleeced? What sites are good?[/QUOTE]
Laptops Direct https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/st/refurbished-laptops
Had a couple of refurbished from there that were like new and lasted well. They have a search tool that let's you narrow down by each spec which is handy.
ere would you recommend buying second hand laptops from, safe in the knowledge you aren’t being fleeced? What sites are good?[/QUOTE]
Laptops Direct https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/st/refurbished-laptops
Had a couple of refurbished from there that were like new and lasted well. They have a search tool that let's you narrow down by each spec which is handy.
mexico1970
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Laptops Direct https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/st/refurbished-laptops[QUOTE="Tricky_Trev, post: 12593223refurbished-laptops
ere would you recommend buying second hand laptops from, safe in the knowledge you aren’t being fleeced? What sites are good?
Had a couple of refurbished from there that were like new and lasted well. They have a search tool that let's you narrow down by each spec which is handy.[/QUOTE]
That's not a bad machine at all.
https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/ref...15.6-inch-windows-10-l-a1-8fe43ea/version.asp
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Laptops Direct https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/st/refurbished-laptops
Had a couple of refurbished from there that were like new and lasted well. They have a search tool that let's you narrow down by each spec which is handy.
That's not a bad machine at all.
https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/ref...15.6-inch-windows-10-l-a1-8fe43ea/version.asp[/QUOTE]
The ones I've had were hp and both fine. Worth Googling though as it's a competitive market and you may get cheaper. Only issue I've had with laptops direct is they sometimes use crap couriers, but no issue if you are stuck in on wfh all day.
Raw files are huge so what i do is buy a 1TB external hard drive and once i finish editing each shoot, i delete the images i do not wish to use from the shoot and the ones edited i move onto the external HD to keep my computer running smooth and not use up all the memory on it