Ok after my current laptop has just gone ping, its moved up my time line for a new machine, I'm looking for a full HD laptop with a matt screen to replace it, with its secondary purpose to be used for running elements 9 or 10. I'm currently looking at a Dell 17 XPS, 8G ram, 750 HD, GT555M 3gb i7 2670QM or a medion ERAZER® X6819 with a I7 2670QM, 15", GTX570M, 500gb hard drive, 80gb SSD drive and 4g ram with the aim of upping the ram to 8gb. Thoughts on which would be better? or alternatives?
Dell.. bigger screen. Personally I get irritated if using photoshop on anything less than a 24" screen, so bigger the better. Both have same RAM (or will do).. same CPU... so go with the biggest screen. Dell has bigger HDD too.
Limits about 1k sterling. I've currently been using elements on a 12" screen so currently anything will be better, but the larger screened dell is I think the forerunner. I have a 21" screen I can plug into if needed for really detailed work. I just wasn't sure if the better graphics card will be used by elements or not.
Played around on pcspecialist and ended up with pretty much the same as the Dell, but it had a bigger battery, I'm guessing it will be plugged in most of the time though right?
thanks good to know. Yeah it will be plugged in most of the time, I'd checked pcspecialist and found much the same thing, but I could get back let keys with the dell, and dell were also including a copy of elements 9, which would have been a nice upgrade from 7 that I currently use.
Are Kepler and Ivy Bridge on the way soon? That might knock the price of the current range of laptops, or you could pick up one of the new ones.
looks like ivy bridge isn't going to OEM's till April, and then it has to filter through to distribution, not really willing to wait that long sans reliable laptop.
