Will these do grandson for photo editing

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We are looking to get the grandson a laptop, he is 13 and into photography, learning both taking and editing his photos.
Our budget is £350 max and I have seen this laptop, at this time he won't be loading photoshop onto the laptop maybe Gimp or something like that.
Will this cover his needs and if we are in a position to load photoshop at some stage will it be ok for that as well?
He will of course be using it for schoolwork etc but not gaming.
I would be grateful for all advice and suggestions for laptops.

Thanks
John.
 
It's decent enough and should be able to run Photoshop fine when the time comes though I would check that it can be upgraded to 16Gb easily enough as the 8Gb extra RAM can make quite a difference if he starts using Photoshop or Lightroom extensively later on.
 
MartinPrince said:
It's decent enough and should be able to run Photoshop fine when the time comes though I would check that it can be upgraded to 16Gb easily enough as the 8Gb extra RAM can make quite a difference if he starts using Photoshop or Lightroom extensively later on.
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Thank you, as far as I am aware it can be upgraded
 
Honestly... and I'm specifically referring to photography and editing photos more than office tasks (it should be fine for school work)...I'd say it's going to be borderline unless you can upgrade the ram (a quick google seems to imply it has space for 2 sodimms), the cpu is fine but while it has 8gb of ram some of that is going to be taken up by the integrated gpu. Battery life won't be that great either imo, the battery is relatively small.

Obviously I don't want to come across as harsh/rude or anything but £350 is really more on the budget conscious end of the spectrum and photoshop along with the tasks that it's often used for don't really fall into the budget conscious category when it comes to hardware. There's certain things that those of us who use photoshop would never want to be without, 16+gigs of ram being the obvious one but 256GB of storage is also quite limiting these days due to software just generally being more bloated so most of us would be wanting 512gb to 1tb.

You can actually get some thing that hits the ram and storage for around an extra £50 from acer (ACER Aspire 3 15.6" Laptop - Intel® Core™ i5, 512 GB SSD, Silver - first result in google) which imo would be a better buy albeit outside your mentioned budget... this might actually be cheaper (and less issue with warranty) than upgrading the dell ram.

Also in respect to photoshop - gimp is fine, paint.net is another free option but if you want to get something a little more powerful without the stupid monthly subscription (I hate adobe subscription with a passion) take a look at affinity, they've got a 40% sale on until 14th Dec iirc and they'll be more than enough for what your grandson would need imo.
 
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I agree with isg1r
I know not everyone can go buy High end stuff
But you're at a price point where you're not going to get
Something decent
To me £400 to £500 gets you a lot better
The other option is refurbished
From the actual manufacturer not some bloke on ebay etc says he refurbished it
A few years ago I got an a acer refurbished grade A
New was £700 the refurbished one was £400
It looked like new couldn't tell the difference but saved 300
And got a pretty good specced machine
Most if not all the laptop manufacturers have a refurbished section
And my refurbished one still got the same warranty

You're a long term member am not sure
What the qualifications back then were for mm
I know they're a lot stricter now
But can you access mm?
There's always some nice laptops come on in there
 
Go for the 16", 15.6" is 16:9 ratio, 16:10 is far better. The Dells do have two RAM sockets so you can upgrade at least. Many laptops now have soldered RAM

Issue with more budget laptops is the screen accuracy if he's using it for pro photoshop work.
 
Mcnumpty2323 said:
I agree with isg1r
I know not everyone can go buy High end stuff
But you're at a price point where you're not going to get
Something decent
To me £400 to £500 gets you a lot better
The other option is refurbished
From the actual manufacturer not some bloke on ebay etc says he refurbished it
A few years ago I got an a acer refurbished grade A
New was £700 the refurbished one was £400
It looked like new couldn't tell the difference but saved 300
And got a pretty good specced machine
Most if not all the laptop manufacturers have a refurbished section
And my refurbished one still got the same warranty

You're a long term member am not sure
What the qualifications back then were for mm
I know they're a lot stricter now
But can you access mm?
There's always some nice laptops come on in there
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Yeah I got offical refurb it is 100% mint condition, not a scratch on it. No dead pixels, no worn trackpad etc. Saved about £200
 
Personally I like Dell Inspirons, I have one, albeit with a higher spec Intel processor, but it's a nice laptop.

I think what you've suggested will do fine. Otherwise there is the Dell Outlet for higher specced refurbs, but personally I think that new one will be enough for a starter.
 
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