What Do I Need to Look for before Picking up a Laptop for Work? Details inside

J4Jayden on 25/10/2018 - 12:27
Last edited 25/10/2018 - 16:00

Hi everyone!

First of all, I would like to thank you in advance for taking the time out to reply. No one is obliged to help and yet this community takes the time out to provide some answers. I appreciate you all!

I have a gaming PC but recently got into eCommerce again. I have a few websites running. Now I am looking at investing my weekends into work but would like to do so outdoors. For that I need a laptop. It will be used for:

  1. Photoshop to edit photos.
  2. Premier pro to edit videos for ads. Nothing too heavy, just basic edits I guess.
  3. Multiple chrome tabs to work on Shopify websites.
  4. 100% no gaming.

Am I dreaming about getting a laptop for under 1000 dollars? If not, would you recommend a specific model?

Thanks you fam, You are all fantastic!

Jayden

Computing Computer Laptop

Comments

  • AdamFury on 25/10/2018 - 12:33
    +1

    $1359 for the latest model XPS 13 from the Dell Outlet

    • J4Jayden on 25/10/2018 - 15:59

      Oh WOW! This sounds like a fantastic deal. Thanks Adam!

      • AdamFury on 25/10/2018 - 16:16

        No worries. I've got one of these and it's impressed me for the time that I've had it.

  • Godric on 25/10/2018 - 13:16

    That it turns on

  • brendanm on 25/10/2018 - 13:36
    +1

    $934 (can surely offer the even less) for Lenovo yoga 520 i7 at good guys on clearance at the moment if you want last year's model.

  • HighAndDry on 25/10/2018 - 15:05

    It really depends - a lot of laptops will do what you want to do, but they might just take a long time doing it. I think the best idea would be to list what your current specs are, how your workload performs on those specs, and whether you're looking for the same performance, less, more, etc.

    Also how portable you'll need it to be. If you're going to be at a park, or in a cafe with powerpoints; whether you'll just be lugging it to and from one place, or taking it around the city a lot; etc.

  • J4Jayden on 25/10/2018 - 15:57

    My current desktop specs are pretty serious for my video editing work.

    i7 (8 series)
    32GB RAM.
    SLI 2x 1080Ti
    2x 1tb SSD

    However, I am not looking at something that powerful in a laptop. I think the Yoga 520 i7 is pretty sweet. The Dell looks awesome too but have had bad experience with them in the past.

    • HighAndDry on 25/10/2018 - 18:50

      Oh wow. Yeah you won't even approach those specs in a laptop without shelling out maybe 4-5 grand. Beware that a lot of smaller laptops with i7 CPUs will throttle basically if they whiff full load, just because the thermals aren't up to the task of actually cooling the chip at sustained load.

      https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-Yoga-Series-Notebooks/CP…

      Has a solution for that, but I'd be worried that doing this might affect the CPU's longevity.

    • brendanm on 25/10/2018 - 21:29

      The Lenovo's seem quite good. My son has a 710 i5 for school, build quality is quite nice, not sure if the 520 is a good in that regard? Video editing shouldn't need crazy GPUs as I assume you aren't doing 4k resolution or higher for some basic editing for ads.

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