Recommendation for laptop

[stillgottheblues]

Any recommendations?
I am looking for a laptop for my child.

Scope
PhotoShop work and Adobe Creative CC, have to handle very huge files of up to 1 GB.

Or should I go for AIO?

Budget 1.5k or cheaper.

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[MoneyFace =p]

Any recommendations?
I am looking for a laptop for my child.

Scope
PhotoShop work and Adobe Creative CC, have to handle very huge files of up to 1 GB.

Or should I go for AIO?

Budget 1.5k or cheaper.

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Select anything with the following:

Dell/HP/MSI/Aftershock

Core i7 HQ/MQ/EQ series
8GB RAM and above
GTX 850M/GTX 950M/GTX 960M/GTX 965M
1080p and above screen

 

[Unknownx]

Aftershock M-15

Alternatively ask your child if he/she can get free Windows OS license from school, then get Aftershock SM-15 with base config for $1579. You can do so as well for Aftershock M-15 to get further discount.

 

[stillgottheblues]

Need to have SSD drive boh?

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[razorlala]

if u want bootup speed to be faster then get ssd. aside from that, if higher capacity ssd can run applications through it also lo. will be faster.

 

[yusoffb01]

Anything with i5 and 4gb ram enough. No need graphics card

 

[stillgottheblues]

Anything with i5 and 4gb ram enough. No need graphics card

OK maybe hoot 6 gen i5 CPU and 8GB RAM can liao

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[MoneyFace =p]

OK maybe hoot 6 gen i5 CPU and 8GB RAM can liao

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4th gen Core i5 doesn't make much difference but much cheaper FYI.

 

[stillgottheblues]

5 gen leh? I read 6 gen only makes battery last longer, but battery is not a concern in schools

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[Teo Ming Ern]

For Photoshop, RAM is of the highest priority. Particularly since you're using Adobe CC which is cloud based. 8 GB is a minimum if you're manipulating files about 1 GB... 4 GB is doable but you just have to twiddle your thumbs. I do panoramas using a work laptop with just 4GB RAM and a dual core processor, likely just i3 type. It works but you have to wait.

Separate graphics card is not important unless you are off-loading the computation to the graphics card. But I don't think any student would really require something like that. The only occasion this will be necessary would be when you need to make videos with something like Premiere Pro and you're working with full HD raw files...

Finally any processor, i3 and upwards is good enough.

Photoshop is bottle necked by RAM not processor speed. I3 is plenty.

As with all things, more powerful is better... so if budget allows then i5. But to balance battery life, then cap the processor at i5, RAM more the merrier and do try to prioritize an SSD. It makes everything 10x zippier.... and that's the other bottle neck...