Looking for a 17" desktop replacement.

Caporegime
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So I'm looking for a 17" laptop to replace an ancient Acer one which now cuts off when the battery reaches 50%.

Battery life doesn't really matter that much as it's not going to be used on the go, so I guess this kind of falls into the portable desktop category.

This is going to be used for photo editing, so ideally an i5, 8GB ram and SSD is what I was thinking, we have NAS so having a large hdd capacity isn't as important. For cost purposes, if I can get a laptop significantly cheaper by buying and installing an SSD separately I would rather do.

Are there any good black friday deals around? Any recommendations would be appreciated thanks.
 
I think I've settled on the Dell Inspiron 17 5000

Specs:

17.3" IPS 1920x1080 LED backlit screen
Intel® Core™ i7-8550U Processor (8MB Cache, up to 4.0 GHz)
8GB, DDR4, 2400MHz
AMD Radeon 530 4GB
128GB SSD + 1TB HDD

£680 on the black friday deal and then £40 cashback through works rewards scheme, best spec I've seen for the money by far.
 
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