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R3aL1Ty

R3aL1Ty

R3aL1Ty

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Hi all,

My wife is need of a new machine potentially.
She does graphic design freelance and has over the last few months picked up more work.

She is beginning to find her machine is really beginning to struggle and I have seen this with her machine.

Current system:
Auros B450 pro
16GB DDR4 3200
Ryzen 3400g
No GPU

She uses the Adobe Suite, main applications:
Photoshop
Illustrator - This seems to be the heaviest use case and causes noticeable stutter and machine freezes.

She has been interested in a MAC and I am fairly confident we could get a better laptop instead, but I am not 100% sure what would be the best case here.
She's been looking at the Mac book Air more recently.
She definitely wants a laptop too

Any advice around what I should be looking into?
 
Philtor said:
I would be inclined to say get a Mac for this sort of usage tbh. Could have a look at the Dell XPS range also but. Great machines.
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Thank you,

Is there any reason a MAC would do whats required?
Also RAM requirements, is there a minimum i should be looking for?
 
Macbook Air would be a good choice. I use a MBP M1 Max for video editing and motion graphics and it's equally as capable as my 5800X/3080.

Portability is of course excellent, battery life seriously impressive.
 
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R3aL1Ty said:
She is beginning to find her machine is really beginning to struggle and I have seen this with her machine.

Current system:
Auros B450 pro
16GB DDR4 3200
Ryzen 3400g
No GPU

She uses the Adobe Suite, main applications:
Photoshop
Illustrator - This seems to be the heaviest use case and causes noticeable stutter and machine freezes.
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You could upgrade that a lot, e.g.

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £436.97 (includes delivery: £7.99)​

Would be some 40% faster in single thread and over double the multi thread performance.

3060 is very popular for creators and should help out with any of the newer GPU accelerated features.
 
bloodiedathame said:
Macbook Air would be a good choice. I use a MBP M1 Max for video editing and motion graphics and it's equally as capable as my 5800X/3080.

Portability is of course excellent, battery life seriously impressive.
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I am likely going to go for the Air, the portability is the biggest thing my wife wants out of besides stability.
So definitely what i am leaning towards, thanks !
 
Tetras said:
You could upgrade that a lot, e.g.

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £436.97 (includes delivery: £7.99)​

Would be some 40% faster in single thread and over double the multi thread performance.

3060 is very popular for creators and should help out with any of the newer GPU accelerated features.
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This was along the lines of what I was thinking personally, but my wife has two arguements.
This is 50% of the price of a laptop (the Air is about 1k +-)

And she does not get the portability but I am glad to know this is definitely an option, so thank you!
 
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