Hi,
I've recently realised, well that's not entirely true, I've known for ages but my current laptop is terribly slow. It's nine years old and I want to be able to do more. It still runs fine, just slowly and some of the things I'm going to want to do going forwards I do not believe it'll manage in any sort of efficient manner. Anyway, I'm looking to do a bit of the below:
I'll be using this at home to the most part and plugging in to two 19 inch Acer monitors. I also have a keyboard and mouse covered. One thing with the monitors though is that they both only have VGA inputs so I know I'll need to get either an extra VGA>DisplayPort or VGA>HDMI cable/converter depending on what the laptop has. It'll need a VGA and one of these though so I can make use of both monitors. This obviously means I'm looking to do two things at once also.
If I've requested too much here or I'm thinking too small then that'd be good to know. Like I said, it's been a while so any help would be much appreciated. Even advice on what sort of processors to look out for or avoid would be huge.
I've recently realised, well that's not entirely true, I've known for ages but my current laptop is terribly slow. It's nine years old and I want to be able to do more. It still runs fine, just slowly and some of the things I'm going to want to do going forwards I do not believe it'll manage in any sort of efficient manner. Anyway, I'm looking to do a bit of the below:
- Video editing - Not a huge volume but trimming and collecting clips to one video.
- Picture editing - Again, not a huge amount but allowing to comfortably trim a body from a background and super-impose to another for example.
- Video reviewing - Lots of stop/start. Will be using https://www.synergysportstech.com/ a fair bit. Also watching NBA League Pass.
- Advanced Excel formulae - Need to be able to run a bit of formula in regards to being able to compare reasonably large volumes of data.
- Learning Python - I want to learn Python. At the moment I have no knowledge of it but it's linked to the above and future work aspirations.
- Webdesign - Not a large amount, but enough to publish results of the formula/database stuff online.
- Then the every day stuff... Word etc.
I'll be using this at home to the most part and plugging in to two 19 inch Acer monitors. I also have a keyboard and mouse covered. One thing with the monitors though is that they both only have VGA inputs so I know I'll need to get either an extra VGA>DisplayPort or VGA>HDMI cable/converter depending on what the laptop has. It'll need a VGA and one of these though so I can make use of both monitors. This obviously means I'm looking to do two things at once also.
If I've requested too much here or I'm thinking too small then that'd be good to know. Like I said, it's been a while so any help would be much appreciated. Even advice on what sort of processors to look out for or avoid would be huge.
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