Laptop suggestions

Fenway16 · Nov 4, 2018

I would like to spend no more than $400. My main interests are using Adobe photoshop elements for photo editing - no video stuff. Also no gaming. Internet browsing, email - the usual. Can someone recommend a decent, laptop with the above needs in mind. Thanks very much.

Josephur · Nov 5, 2018

HP Streams are horrible! The processor sucks, the system hard drive is a 32GB soldered in flash chip. As soon as you install something like Photoshop or Office and do updates you are out of space. Do NOT buy one. The $400 range is really hard to recommend for an avid Photoshop user, if you can save up a hundred or two more and go for an i5/i7 quad core with 16GB RAM and an SSD you'd be golden.

There are some good laptops in the $550 range for Photoshop use, such as the Link Removed which has pretty great specs for the price.

Of course you can also go certified refurbished, I just looked on Amazon and found an i5, 16GB RAM with 256GB SSD for $312 which is not bad at all.

Axel PC · Nov 8, 2018

Good deal . Let us know how it works out.

Fenway16 · Nov 10, 2018

Dell Inspiron 5570 Laptop Intel® 8th Gen i5-8250, 256 GB SSD Hard Drive, 8 GB DDR4, Win 10 Home, Intel® UHD Graphics 620
Well - this is what I ended up with. Hope it's a good one. Got it for $499. A little higher than what I wanted but seems a good fit. Question: McAfee is installed but I don't want it. Hopefully I can disable it to dl and install my choice of AV - if not, what is the recommendation for installing new AV software. Remove McAfee first? Knowing the conflict of having 2 av's on system, this always confounds me timing wise. It's been a while since I have had to do it. Would appreciate your input. Thanks very much.

Axel PC · Nov 11, 2018

Hey I think that sounds like a really good deal for $499.

I'd uninstall McAfee first, restart and install the AV of your choice.

Fenway16 · Nov 11, 2018

It's only been a few hours but not thrilled with 10. I said not to install mcafee in the setup process but guess what - installed anyway! I went ahead and d.l. Avast and installed it and had to take it off as I was not able to uninstall mcafee or so it would appear. I downloaded a win 7 lookalike to find my way around this system and found a better uninstall program - like the old win7 one so might try it again.

Such a pain having the wheel reinvented without the old wheel not being worn out yet. It also wiped a 500GB external drive in order to make a recovery drive. It needed 16GB and all I had was this 500GB one - waste. Now the drive is not accessible anywhere except this Dell- can this be reversed do you know? I would have had to purchase a 32GB for $16.00 -- which now that I know this drive is wiped - I would do.

I will get used to it I'm sure but not crazy about it. Just too busy for my taste.

Axel PC · Nov 11, 2018

That sucks! Yeah unfortunately in order to have the latest security updates and protections we have to do this major updates in Windows. That is one thing I do like about Mac.

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