- Aug 2, 2015
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Hey guys,
I have a question about another system build. This is a budget system for my mom because currently she's using a Sony Vaio VGN-FW51JF. My mom, who is a painter, uses it for storing the photos of her paintings, rough sketches, drawings and stuff like that. She also uses Adobe Lightroom for touching up the photos of her finished works before uploading (watermarking), but it's nothing too intensive. Beyond that she uses it to browse the internet and watch videos, and that's pretty much it.
Now the laptop she's using works fine, but it pains me to just look at it. It's 6 or 7 years old, way past its prime. It boots up, but working on it is really inefficient. Boot time is in the minutes, between 2 and 4. Loading webpages takes time, opening applications takes time. Maybe it's unnecessary, but I do feel that with a new, optimised system, her workflow would be greatly improved and she won't have to spend time waiting when she's on the computer and get straight to whatever it is that needs to be done.
So guys, can you help me build a system for the purposes outlines above? I have a feeling that an AMD APU would be exactly right because she doesn't need discrete graphics, but at the same it's powerful enough and cheap. I don't know much about AMD CPUs or APUs, it's all just surface knowledge. The budget would be a reasonable €350, maybe, possibly €400 but not more. That's including the monitor, mouse and keyboard. The OS is not a problem as the laptop runs Windows 7 so I can create a USB boot drive from it. The form factor should be as small as possible. Because I am located in Switzerland, I would be buying from Germany so everything should be in euro if possible.
That's about it and again I want to thank everyone for taking the time to provide the help!
I have a question about another system build. This is a budget system for my mom because currently she's using a Sony Vaio VGN-FW51JF. My mom, who is a painter, uses it for storing the photos of her paintings, rough sketches, drawings and stuff like that. She also uses Adobe Lightroom for touching up the photos of her finished works before uploading (watermarking), but it's nothing too intensive. Beyond that she uses it to browse the internet and watch videos, and that's pretty much it.
Now the laptop she's using works fine, but it pains me to just look at it. It's 6 or 7 years old, way past its prime. It boots up, but working on it is really inefficient. Boot time is in the minutes, between 2 and 4. Loading webpages takes time, opening applications takes time. Maybe it's unnecessary, but I do feel that with a new, optimised system, her workflow would be greatly improved and she won't have to spend time waiting when she's on the computer and get straight to whatever it is that needs to be done.
So guys, can you help me build a system for the purposes outlines above? I have a feeling that an AMD APU would be exactly right because she doesn't need discrete graphics, but at the same it's powerful enough and cheap. I don't know much about AMD CPUs or APUs, it's all just surface knowledge. The budget would be a reasonable €350, maybe, possibly €400 but not more. That's including the monitor, mouse and keyboard. The OS is not a problem as the laptop runs Windows 7 so I can create a USB boot drive from it. The form factor should be as small as possible. Because I am located in Switzerland, I would be buying from Germany so everything should be in euro if possible.
That's about it and again I want to thank everyone for taking the time to provide the help!
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