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Cyanide

Cyanide

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Hi guys!

I need a bit of help planning a possible new system please!

I'm covering a few events in the near future and need to do some on site photo printing. I did one last week and took my desktop & inkjet with me and it was painful - too much setting up, too long printing etc. I'm in the process of buying a dye-sub printer but I'll need a system to run it.

I need to try to keep the budget as low as possible, I'd considered a laptop but they all run W8 these days and I hate the thing so that's a no-go.

It needs to be able to run Lightroom 5 (no full photoshop, I don't intend to do full editing on it) and connect to the printer and that's about it.

I was looking at the lil mini pc's to bolt to the back of a monitor but I'm not sure if they'll have enough power and I'd probably be paying a premium for the tiny size over a small desktop.

Does anyone have any recommendations and/or a spec?

Cheers

Dan
 
I'd considered a laptop but they all run W8 these days and I hate the thing so that's a no-go.

I don't understand this, Windows 8 differs only slightly from Windows 7, I use lightroom and Photoshop myself, there's no difference between Windows 7 and Windows 8? - Just boot to desktop and you're done.

Anyway, what's your budget?
 
ThaReaperGuy said:
I'd considered a laptop but they all run W8 these days and I hate the thing so that's a no-go.

I don't understand this, Windows 8 differs only slightly from Windows 7, I use lightroom and Photoshop myself, there's no difference between Windows 7 and Windows 8? - Just boot to desktop and you're done.

Anyway, what's your budget?
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I tried the beta and I've used a few laptops running on it since, had all sorts of compatibility issues, menus are awful and it's too hard to find the simplest of things and I just generally hate it. I'd much rather stick to W7!

Not really got a budget set at the moment, the cheaper the better but if I need to spend a bit more to get the right performance then so be it (and that doesn't mean spec me an i7 beast with 2 gpus :p)
 
With the updates from Windows 8.1 and learning the functionality of the system as a whole, you'll find it's a much better OS than Windows 7. Just give it some time, and you'll start to enjoy it.

To find something, Windows Key & S, searches your entire PC & runs a internet search, very handy for finding a program/file in seconds.

Lemme spec you something up.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4440 3.10GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £131.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £74.99
1 x Asus H81I-Plus Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x Cooler Master Elite 120 Advanced Mini-ITX Case - Black £39.95
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 300W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £29.99
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £463.48 (includes shipping : £8.00).



I5 will handle LightRoom perfectly OK.
Case is Mini-ITX, small and portable.
 
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