I5-4300U for photo editing

[JannoRt]

Hello,

what you guys think, is i5-4300u, Intel HD 4400 and 8gb of ram enough for mobile photo editing? I need a photo editing small laptop, will this CPU work out or i need something better? Also it has SSD drive.

Thanks!

 

[raisonjohn]

If you can get a laptop with a 4-core/8-thread CPU and 16GB of RAM, it would be more beneficial for photo editing. The SSD definitely helps in faster boot times and application launch times. RAM is a very important part as well (though the 8GB RAM will suffice as a bare minimum; a 16GB RAM (or 12GB) would be highly recommended). Photoshop, for example, likes to utilize more cores and threads, if it can (especially with using filters, blurs, sharp mask, using hue/saturation adjustments and shadows/highlights, etc.): https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Adobe-Photoshop-CC-Multi-Core-Performance-625/

 

[dudeman509]

For BASIC photo editing stuff, yeah, it'll do fine. My 4210u is quite pokey though...for anything more intensive in Photoshop, you'll want a 4-core i7.