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Yogimus wrote:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6834152586


Has a dedicated video card, 8gb ram and 750gb hard drive

Small enough to be portable


Video card is useful if you need to hook that thing up to a large display.
Thanks.

I wonder, is the 1366 x 768 resolution going to be sharp enough to work with for digital editing?
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It will project on a much higher resolution monitor if you connect it externally. 17 inches are gonna be the best you will get in a portable device at 1080.
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1920x1080 will cost you.
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Laptop he originally posted already has a dedicated video card with 2gb of RAM (NVidia Quadro). With the older versions of Photoshop, it won't matter which type of card she's using, since 5 or 5.5 won't offload to the video card anyway (IIRC). 1366x768 on the MSI would pretty much require an external monitor to do any serious photo work. The Lenovo he linked, if it does have at least the HD+ (1600-900) spec screen, is at least passable w/o an external monitor. MSI is a Core-i5 dual core machine, Lenovo is a Core-i7 quad-core. At worst the Lenovo is down 4gb on RAM, tied on video, and ahead on processor. If it's the HD+ or full-HD version, he's ahead on resolution, and it's still $200 cheaper.

Unless there's something to be avoided with Lenovo products of which I'm unaware (which I may well be).
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Fair enough. I don't much like the 4gig onboard ram.
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Yogimus wrote:Fair enough. I don't much like the 4gig onboard ram.
Agree, but from what I've read for that laptop, it comes as 1 stick in 1 of the 4 available slots. The Core-i5 versions can only use 2 of the slots, but the i7 can apparently use them all (no f'n clue why).
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Depends on the chip and motherboard.
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So what I hear from the two guys who know WAY more than me. Either of those will work. The one I linked, I need to know what monitor it has.

For the one Yogi linked, it is going to be better when attached to the external monitor, but limited without it.

Ok. all of life is a compromise.
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this one has the memory and the resolution
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product. ... 6834314534

It looks like it has a decent video card with good onboard memory as well as a HUGE HDD.

It also looks like it will support an external monitor up to 2560 x1600

http://www.geforce.com/hardware/noteboo ... fications

Am I missing anything? I assume the I-5 is not a handicap, especially considering her work platform was not that good.
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i5 dual core is not bad per-se, and that chip scores in the same ballpark as the others, though slightly lower. Having full HD natively is nice (my laptop does), and that one comes with more hard drive and RAM out of the box too.
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