Good Laptop for Photoshop? ($1200 budget)

[Phil923]

Hi Forums,

I was just wondering if anyone has any recommendations for a laptop that would be good for programs like Photoshop. My budget is ~$1200 USD. Thanks.

Phil

 

[planesman22]

Lenovo W550s with a NVIDIA Quadro K620M 2GB card running at an i7 would do fine with your daily Photoshop needs. That is spending your entire $1200 Budget for the durability and that nice touchscreen. To be honest you do not need to spend $1200 for a Laptop to run Photoshop..

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/w-series/w550s/

Do gander Lenovo's selections though.

 

[Phil923]

Is there really a big advantage to a quadro gpu over a normal geforce one for photoshop?

 

[planesman22]

In this post i quote

"Quadros were and are almost universally praised for their 2D CAD capabilities and Autodesk and Solidworks have provided specialized drivers to optimize performance of their software using Quadros. "


http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/386333-33-quadro-geforce-autocad-solidworks-sketchup

For small Photoshop applications? No. It shouldn't matter.

 

[velo3100]

Any laptop with 8 gigs of ram and an i5 should be good enough to run ps. If you need to do heavy ps, then an i7 is recommended.