All in, I think I ended up spending less than $2k on the hardware, upgrades, and accessories.
#Best mac laptop for adobe creative suite plus#
It won't render as quickly as a desktop or a laptop that's using desktop processors or GPUs, but it has enough battery life (9 cell internal battery plus add-on 'slice' battery underneath) to handle a cross country flight without dying.
I've been using this system for a few years now and am very happy. Then I bought a SSD to use as main drive and moved stock 300GB drive to the Ultrabay carrier - giving me two internal drives.
Bought a hard drive carrier for the Ultrabay slot (cost about $20 if I remember right). This was much less expensive than buying memory from Lenovo and works perfectly.ģ. Swapped out the memory, replacing the stock 4GB with 16GB to fill up all four DIMM slots. Shopped Lenovo's Outlet store and found a returned W510 (the best model at that time) that had the top processor/Quadro graphics combination. I needed a laptop to handle Adobe a few years ago and here's what I did:ġ. You can get a lot more machine for your money if you can handle some fairly simple upgrades on your own. They have solid processors, two drive slots, four memory slots, and are very durable. I would suggest that you take a look at Lenovo's W530 Mobile Workstation models. One thing that I have noticed is that many newer airplanes, like the 737-800/900's have AC between the seats! It is also a tad heavy, were I running through airports, or trying to juggle things on an airliner's tray table. For me, I only use the laptop on my patio, so I am plugged into AC. The only downside to such a unit, is the power consumption with a 3x HDD I/O. I can say that the Sager T/S and C/S are great, and judging from the work that the ADK folk do on this forum, would certainly anticipate the same, or maybe even better from them. Looking at both Sager & ADK for a replacement, and am only waiting on a change in the Clevo MoBo's, before I make the change to Win7-64 and the new laptop. Now, it is VERY long in the tooth, and for the same $'s, one can get much, much more. I use it to edit SD material, plus do much of my initial PS Image work, InDesign and AI vector illustrations, plus Encore authoring.
When purchased, it was their "top-o-the-line," with 3x 250GB SATA II's, nVidia GTX 8800M 512k, and 4GB RAM (running XP-Pro, which was a "special order," as Vista was the choice then). I have been using a Sager 17" laptop for about 5 years now. Any recomendations would be great thanks! The new xps 15 at 2000 dollars seems the most powerful but my understanding is that macs have a longer lifespan. Here are the descriptions of four computers I was looking at were the macbook 15 and 13.3 as well as the new special addition 15r inspiration and the new xps 15. I can afford a little above 2000 dollars for the computer but I won't likely be able to play around with the computer much to imporove things like memory so custimization is basically out. My college offers special deals on apple and dell computers so I'm strongly considering buying a laptop from those brands but am willing to purchase my computer from another company if it's clear that the laptop would be longer lasting/good with production premium. I need a computer which will run fairly smoothly with production premium but possibly more importantly I need a computer which will last me my four years of undergraduate.
#Best mac laptop for adobe creative suite install#
I will be heading to college in September and wish to buy a new laptop and install creative suite production premium on it.
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