best laptop for editing image
im looking for a good laptop to edit movies, thats it, nothing else. IM also on a budget, anything under 800 or so.
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Dell Studio XPS
Dell Studio XPS
What kind of laptop is good for editing pictures?
Q. I need a laptop for editing pictures! What kind would be good for that? Under 1,000 would be nice!
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You should be looking for one with at least a 17" screen of decent quality: most photo-editing software puts menus and palettes round the edges of the screen so the actual picture area can be limited. Gamers demand the fastest of everything, but for picture editing you don't need tomorrow's technology. A reasonably fast processor and motherboard will do - you need some speed otherwise saving large image files can seem slow. 2 or 3Gb of on-board memory is handy. Make sure there are enough easily-accessible USB ports to support a mouse, a tablet if you're going to use one, and a card reader; some laptops have some card slots built in, but never enough or the right sort. If you're editing photos, set aside a little money for a monitor calibrator (they start around £70 / $100), to ensure that the brightness, contrast, colours, hues and saturation that you see on screen are accurate - otherwise you may get some very odd results when you print. You should get something perfectly adequate for under $1,000. Shop around - and have fun!
You should be looking for one with at least a 17" screen of decent quality: most photo-editing software puts menus and palettes round the edges of the screen so the actual picture area can be limited. Gamers demand the fastest of everything, but for picture editing you don't need tomorrow's technology. A reasonably fast processor and motherboard will do - you need some speed otherwise saving large image files can seem slow. 2 or 3Gb of on-board memory is handy. Make sure there are enough easily-accessible USB ports to support a mouse, a tablet if you're going to use one, and a card reader; some laptops have some card slots built in, but never enough or the right sort. If you're editing photos, set aside a little money for a monitor calibrator (they start around £70 / $100), to ensure that the brightness, contrast, colours, hues and saturation that you see on screen are accurate - otherwise you may get some very odd results when you print. You should get something perfectly adequate for under $1,000. Shop around - and have fun!
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