What laptop to buy? What do you recommend? ?

Question

Im planning to buy a laptop but Don not have any idea what specs and

what suits my requirements.

I would would want a laptop powerful enough to do graphic designs such as Adobe creative suites (PS, ILLUstrator), COREL (Draw, painter etc), Flash (Pro, MX), Blender etc...

I know that buying the most expensive laptop out there is the best option but I am looking for a less expensive laptop (not too cheap and not too expensive)...

I would want to try Apple mac but I need it to be in windows operating system..

Answer 1

I'm a big PC guy, so it pains me to say this... Dual-booting on a Mac works great, and is a good way to still use all of your windows applications.

If you want to stick with a PC, then I suggest...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...

Get one with similar specs and you should be fine. When looking for a laptop for graphics based stuff, look for "ATI" or "nVidea" on it.

Good luck.

~Andrew

Answer 2

Visit http://www.bestbuy.com and purchase the Toshiba that you can afford.  It will easily handle all of those programs you mention.

Answer 3

I would definitely recommend HP; I actually had a Toshiba that stopped working on me after a year (a couple days after the warranty expired).  needless to say, I don't trust Toshiba anymore; on the other hand, I have grown up around HP's and have never had a problem with them.  I just recently got an HP dv6936us, which is a highly equipped dv6700.  This laptop has a 250 gb hard drive, 4 gb RAM, 256 mb video card, 2.0 ghz core 2 duo processor, and works for everything from gaming to watching multiple videos (on multiple monitors) to doing homework.  I also got it for 850 at office depot, if you are willing to buy a mac this should be well within your budget.

Answer 4

look at the second tier machines from HP and Dell . not the fastest processors but not the slowest. with at least 2 gigs of ram and a separate video card. stay with a windows machine rather than an apple as there are far more compatible with those programs( there is emulation software but it is slower and may not be fully compatible )  I have both HP and DELL and like the HP much better(faster and cheaper) look on line at there respective sites and stay away from best buy or circuit city sites as the machines are older tech at the same prices

Answer 5

I would go with an HP or a IBM, Intel Core 2 Duo with a minimum of 128 megs of video memory and 2 megs of system RAM. Minimum of an 80GB Hard drive. I personally wouldn't mess with any thing Less. If your doing graphic design or something like that, I would look for some thing with a NVIDIA graphics card and 256 megs of video memory.

Answer 6

well, the Mac OS is a lot better than Windows, no doubt. If you really wanted to do powerful graphic designs, you would run it on the Mac platform, I mean, Adobe has all of those applications on the Mac platform as well, and Macs and PCs can still read the same documents. Macs are expensive, but can be well worth the investment. (then you don't have to keep sending in your PC because it keeps breaking down)

Macs are now an industry standard and is used in many movie studios and professional graphic design artists. It is the professional grade. Your Mac would be a MacBook Pro.

Answer 7

toshiba

Answer 8

The great thing about macs are that they can run windows OS also.

Answer 9

I bought a laptop 2 months ago for gaming.  I searched for about 3 weeks to get something powerful yet cheap yet by a well-known brand (my dad would say no to Sager/ProStar since they're not known)... I finally settled on buying a refurbished (it was impossible to distinguish from brand new except the sticker on the bottom that says refurbished - also $500 cheaper than new) Dell XPS M1530 with 2gz dual core (would be enough for what you want), 3GB of RAM (3.5 is the max Windows 32-bit can recognize), 200GB 7200rpm hard drive (most hard drives are 5400 rpm = revolutions per minute), and a NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT (very powerful, I used http://www.notebookcheck.net/ to compare graphics cards since it's hard to tell how good they are just by names) all for $1234 (900 without the 3-year warranty - normally it's 1-year but with laptops it's recommended by experts to get extended) on outlet.dell.com (bought 10% coupon off ebay).  I'm pretty confident that my laptop would do everything you want at an acceptable price though a same in a desktop would be around half if you built it.

Answer 10

You should go for sony. Because of the brand name and established company.

Answer 11

Dont buy a mac!!!!!!!!! i have a macbook and it sucks it is made of prob tyhe cheapest material.  The lever to realease the battery fell off and i was told it was my fault and its in now for creacked palm rests it is so bad noone buy an apple they cheat u also by telling you you did something to bread the computer

get a dell its quality im using a 6 year 1 now as a backup and the things tough as h**l and quality it mous button still works while my apple one haas become unresponsive