Looking to buy a laptop for being able to still work on coloring when I'm out of town for cons! I was strongly considering a Microsoft Surface Pro 2, but I've heard PS acts a little weird in it and I think I'd probably save money/be more comfortable with a laptop using a cheap Wacom Bamboo. So I'm looking for recommendations on good ones! (no, I'm not building a damn laptop ) Usually I have a local company build my PC with the description "Just make it amazing" but this is for travel only so it doesn't need to be able to power the sun. Obviously laptops aren't something they usually build so I'm going with whatever.
Here's what I want:
-Something below $1k. Yeah, the Cintiq Companions are glorious but this is a machine I'm only going to be using when I'm out of town so I'm not spending $2k on that shit.(obviously Macs are out of the question. My work desktop is PC, I'm not jumping between Mac and PC)-All my color work is 600 DPI and colored in Photoshop CS3. It has to be able to handle monster file sizes.
-8GB RAM. While my desktop PC is 32GB of RAM, I'm not looking for that on the laptop. I'd prefer an i7 processor since I may as well spend a little more on a processor that will be relevant a little longer than try to save and go with i5.
-I don't need a sweet videocard. This is a 100% for work machine. May as well save a few $100 not getting a ridiculous videocard.
-Windows 7 64-bit is the most ideal, but if I absolutely have to I will get a Windows 8 machine.
-I don't really care about the brand, I'm not really loyal to anyone.
-Screen needs to be big enough to be able to work comfortably but since I'll be taking this onto airplanes it needs to be easy to lug around.
-I don't care about touch screen. If it has it that's okay, but if not that's cool too.
-Big HD. Most machines I saw bare minimum seem to have like 700GB minimum. Some come with bonus SSD drives but that's not a deal breaker.
I was looking at
http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-15r-5537/pd?oc=dncwu1175s7&model_id=inspiron-15r-5537#secondaryContent since it pretty much fits all my requirements, but if someone has an even better suggestion that might save me money that's equal to or superior to this, that'd be awesome too!
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Colbitzer
@ 3:32 PM Apr 17th