Hey everyone,
My cousin is going back to uni in graphic design and animation this month, and on the side has been doing graphic design professionally on a small scale.
She's looking for a laptop with an ABSOLUTE hard max of £1500, but really 1000-1200 would be the more sensible range.
Its photoshop and illustrator work primarily to quite a high level. So a good colour accurate screen, 15" ish in size (13 she thinks is just a bit too small).
She is intending to do some small animation work so perhaps a proper GPU is a good shout. and obviously 16GB of ram and an SSD are key (and tbh standard now days anyway, capacity isn't an issue though so 512 enough).
Its a pretty hard pick. I had an older XPS15 which was great, and the new ones improve on all the niggles of the old but they're crazy price still. That said, being a student she's due 20% discount with dell. Which might just squeeze some of the better models from last gen into budget.
I feel like some products like the very well specced omen perhaps just gear too much for gaming and a more professional focus would be better.
She wont ever use it for gaming so the GPU is there purely for helping professional work and content consumption.
So far i'm leaning towards an XPS15 7590 with 4k screen (not the "new" one unfortunately) and maybe a 15" zenbook, the surface laptops are still out of range even with a 10% discount.
I'm not super up to speed on HP and LG offerings, any thoughts would be appreciated.
My cousin is going back to uni in graphic design and animation this month, and on the side has been doing graphic design professionally on a small scale.
She's looking for a laptop with an ABSOLUTE hard max of £1500, but really 1000-1200 would be the more sensible range.
Its photoshop and illustrator work primarily to quite a high level. So a good colour accurate screen, 15" ish in size (13 she thinks is just a bit too small).
She is intending to do some small animation work so perhaps a proper GPU is a good shout. and obviously 16GB of ram and an SSD are key (and tbh standard now days anyway, capacity isn't an issue though so 512 enough).
Its a pretty hard pick. I had an older XPS15 which was great, and the new ones improve on all the niggles of the old but they're crazy price still. That said, being a student she's due 20% discount with dell. Which might just squeeze some of the better models from last gen into budget.
I feel like some products like the very well specced omen perhaps just gear too much for gaming and a more professional focus would be better.
She wont ever use it for gaming so the GPU is there purely for helping professional work and content consumption.
So far i'm leaning towards an XPS15 7590 with 4k screen (not the "new" one unfortunately) and maybe a 15" zenbook, the surface laptops are still out of range even with a 10% discount.
I'm not super up to speed on HP and LG offerings, any thoughts would be appreciated.
