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I just pulled the trigger on a Dell XPS 15 laptop. It's as described above - 10th gen i7 processor, 1 TB solid state drive, 32 GB of RAM, Nvidia Video card, 100% of AdobeRGB. It lacks ports so I added the Dell Dock and a USB to HDMI connector. The total price including dock, adapter and sales tax was $2063.
 
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EricBowles said:
I just pulled the trigger on a Dell XPS 15 laptop. It's as described above - 10th gen i7 processor, 1 TB solid state drive, 32 GB of RAM, Nvidia Video card, 100% of AdobeRGB. It lacks ports so I added the Dell Dock and a USB to HDMI connector. The total price including dock, adapter and sales tax was $2063.
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I finally decide to go with OMEN desktop, BenQ monitor and the total price is about 3800 euros. It has an intel i9 -10850K, Nvidia 3080, 1 TB SSD and 32GB of ram. What do you think?
 
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I finally decide to go with OMEN desktop, BenQ monitor and the total price is about 3800 euros. It has an intel i9 -10850K, Nvidia 3080, 1 TB SSD and 32GB of ram. What do you think?
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You will want more hard drive space? The ssd can store the operating system and your Lightroom catalog, but you will want more, no? and a backup system.
 
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bleirer said:
You will want more hard drive space? The ssd can store the operating system and your Lightroom catalog, but you will want more, no? and a backup system.
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Just to note I don't use lightroom. I much prefer working in layers and I won't store photos on that SSD only in the beginning, but I have some external SSDs, so I don't think of it as a huge issue. But thank you for the comment. And since this is a gaming computer I can upgrade SSD when I think I need it. And I think I am going to need someplace to back up my photos later on because now we just don't have enough money. Oh and I forgot to mention that this computer also has an HDD, so it should be good for backing photos, at least for now.
 
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Just had a computer built for me this past February. Just under $1900 with the 27" BenQ monitor. ?The processor is a 10th Generation, Intel I-7-10700F. For my use a 9th Gen card seemed overkill and the I-7 was more readily available at the time. Memory size is 32GB of DIMM DDR4. The graphics card is a Nvidia Quadro P2200, an ASUS Tuff gaming motherboard, Z490, and a 600w Thermaltake power supply. I use it with the latest version of Affinity Photo and new screens are instantaneous.
 
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EricBowles said:
I'm at the early stages of shopping for a new laptop. I require a high level of mobility, so a desktop is out of the question.

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I've nd rt on some laptops. Most peripherals use standard USB-C, but I see a r and more energy efficient. I don't have the AMD translation or equivalent.

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The best pricing for laptops is normally around Christmas and in August for Back to School. You can save $200-500 on a laptop by buying at the right time of year.
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thank you Eric, This is very helpful to me.
 
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Desktops bring more performance for the cost and they can last a lot longer.
I currently run a desktop with an I5-3750K CPU, it came out in 2012. When bench marked it provide approximately the same single core performance as the current I5/I7, and as most image processing is actually single core calculation it's still kicking. I have upgraded the GPU a few years ago, and through that achieved a nice performance.
When I recently upgraded from the 24 Mpix D7200 to the 46 Mpix D850 I was anxious to se what processing times I would get from the rig. But it holds on, only when doing full resolution conversions to JPEG it takes a while, but it can be due to performance of the network and destination drive.

Other elements that keeps desktops alive longer are that you rarely spill coffee directly into the machine and they don't break if you sit on them ;-)
 
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Just to mess with your mind, I went with a tower so I could max it out for less $$ and when something dies I can replace it.

Then, I bought a new iPad with an iPad card reader (dongle) so I can review my images on a larger screen in the field. I also control my CamRanger (which I love!) on the camera with it.

I have a high-end laptop from work I could use, but the onboard graphics bummed me out.
 
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