Recommendation for heavy excel and light PS user

[iLuvDoggies]

Hi all,

Would you be able to recommend what laptop I should buy?

I do a lot of excel spreadsheets with formulas (open a few excels at the same time). I use Photoshop for simple graphics design and photos editing. As such, it has to be fast and cannot be laggy (does having 16GB ram improves speed?). Will be connecting it to an external monitor, so willing to comprise screen size. Budget about S$1500++

Office laptop is using Dell and I've bad experience after using various models so no Dell for me.

Thank you in advance!

 

[yukita]

I think you can consider Thinkpad T14s AMD version.

Hi all,

Would you be able to recommend what laptop I should buy?

I do a lot of excel spreadsheets with formulas (open a few excels at the same time). I use Photoshop for simple graphics design and photos editing. As such, it has to be fast and cannot be laggy (does having 16GB ram improves speed?). Will be connecting it to an external monitor, so willing to comprise screen size. Budget about S$1500++

Office laptop is using Dell and I've bad experience after using various models so no Dell for me.

Thank you in advance!

 

[testament]

Actually what is the problem you are facing with the Dell and can you list the current specs of your dell?

What size are you looking at? Actually smaller and lighter laptops cost more

 

[ckctam]

Hi all,

I do a lot of excel spreadsheets with formulas (open a few excels at the same time). I use Photoshop for simple graphics design and photos editing. As such, it has to be fast and cannot be laggy (does having 16GB ram improves speed?)

You have to check what is your bottleneck. If your comp is going slow, press control alt and delete and check what is causing the issue.

Is it Ram or cpu? If it is ram, your memory usage will be close to 100%. Then more ram will help.

If cpu usage is close to 100%, then you need a faster cpu (i7 etc).

BTW, do you have a ssd? Make sure you have one for your next comp. Depend on storage 500 gb ssd may not be enough for you.

 

[iLuvDoggies]

Currently using dell latitude 7290. Cant remember the past models. It will hang/freeze a few time daily, each lag takes about close to 60 sec to recover.

Willing to compromise the size if i can keep to budget. (I almost forget that smaller laptop cost more)

Actually what is the problem you are facing with the Dell and can you list the current specs of your dell?

What size are you looking at? Actually smaller and lighter laptops cost more

 

[iLuvDoggies]

Thank you for the below, let me get find out. Anyway, i cannot upgrade non configure the office laptop so gotta live with it.

You have to check what is your bottleneck. If your comp is going slow, press control alt and delete and check what is causing the issue.

Is it Ram or cpu? If it is ram, your memory usage will be close to 100%. Then more ram will help.

If cpu usage is close to 100%, then you need a faster cpu (i7 etc).

BTW, do you have a ssd? Make sure you have one for your next comp. Depend on storage 500 gb ssd may not be enough for you.

 

[iLuvDoggies]

Thanks! Will check it out!

I think you can consider Thinkpad T14s AMD version.

 

[WhiteAnt]

i feel asus A15 ryzen 7 4800U will be good

ASUS TUF Gaming A15 FA506IH-GTX1650

got edmwer recommend me this and it's a v powerful machine~