Which Laptop for Photoshop + Web Design? (under 1000$)

Hey there-
I need a PC laptop and not sure which to buy. Just getting started with photoshop and web design but hope to make it a career. Money's tight so under 1000$ (max) is ideal. Do I need a dedicated graphics card, or is integrated okay? Intel or AMD? Screen resolution? I'm confused.
Any tips are much appreciated, thanks!

Do you really need a laptop? You can get a lot more for the money with a desktop. Many serious users use one or more 24+ inch monitors.
Win7 is better than Win8. The standard recommendation is a dedicated video card with 1 gig of VRAM, min. 2 internal HD or large SSD, and min. 8 gig of ram.

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Laptop for Photoshop - GPU (Nvidia vs AMD) + Display (IPS vs TN) questions - please help

Hi, I am helping someone with getting a new laptop for PhotoShop work, and am very confused about a couple of things.
Hoping that the pros on this forum can help.
1. Dedicated Graphics card - needed or not?
If needed, AMD Radeon/FirePro (difficult to find on laptops) or Nvidia GeForce GTX 6xxM/7xxM or Quadro?
2. Suggestions on laptops with an IPS panel and wide color gamut.
Re. 1 - this is very confusing. From what I researched, the new Photoshop versions (CS6 and above) do use the GPU very effectively, and are using OpenCL rather than CUDA. Yet there are people on some forums that say that a GPU is not needed unless editing video.
My friend is not editing video - he is using Photoshop to create Digital Art. He does use all of the Photoshop features in his work. No 3D work, no video editing. The end result is Printed artwork - sometimes large prints 3 ft x 4 ft printed with geeclee on canvas/high quality paper.
Is a GPU needed, and if so is it better to get the AMD cards (Radeon most likely) that seem to completely outperform the GeForce cards in OpenCL at least?
Most of the laptops available seem to have the GTX 6xxM or 7xxM cards, and I read on one forum that the OpenCL functions are disabled on these cards. Read on another forum that it can be re-enabled with a hack. Thorougly confused. Please help.
Re. 2 - This too is confusing. Seems like an IPS panel has the best color rendition, but then they do not cover the entire color spectrum - or at least not as widely as the TN panels. If this will be the only monitor for work, is an IPS panel the best way to go or is it better to get a TN with wide gamut? Are there laptops with both - an IPS panel and a wide color gamut - without breaking the bank?
Currently the Sager/Clevo machines, and some MSI models, and ASUS models seem to be the best candidates. Had to rule out Dell Precision 6700/4700 and HP Elitebook 8770W/8570W due to price, but considering refurbished ones.
I am working with a $1200 budget with maybe some stretchability. Any advice/suggestions will be much appreciated.

At the potential risk of your pretending to kick me off what you misguidedly perceive as your thread—which by the way you would have no right to do, since you do not own a thread just because you started it—I'll have a couple of comments on your original thoughts.
There's no reason to be "confused" here.
1.— Utilization of the GPU is indeed always beneficial to using recent versions of Photoshop, regardless of whether you work with video or not. Whether you "need it or not" is a different discussion.
2.— Of course it's absolutely necessary to be able to work with a monitor that has a narrower gamut than your working space or even your output target profile. In my case, for example, as I'm 99.9% concerned with high quality prints, I work exclusively in ProPhoto RGB. I'd be in a pickle if I were to restrict my work to just what I can see on any monitor regardless of how wide its gamut were.
One just has to learn how to work in Photoshop. That's what Gamut Warning and Soft Proofing are there, for example. Printers are capable of printing some colors that are not visible on any monitor.
3.— If both the video card and/or its driver fail to support Open GL and Shader Model, no "hack" on Earth can make up for it.
4.— If someone came to me for advice on a laptop on which to run Photoshop well, my main and perhaps only goal would be to dissuade that person from wasting his or her money.
I know there might be flak from some laptop users for that immediately preceding paragraph, but hopefully not as much as you're likely to get—and deservedly so—from Mac Pro users for your astonishingly uninformed comments on those machines.
One thing is having a laptop as a second machine on which to show your Photoshop work to clients and prospective clients when forced to, and another one is trying to use a laptop as one's main, working Photoshop machine.
Going to a laptop publication (which I gather the obscure, niche-market "NBR" you cite is) for information on whether to use one or not is like seeking theological religious advice about world religions from the Pope in the Vatican or the Ayatollah in Tehran.
5.— In the past I had run Photoshop on a variety of different nVidia GeForce cards with up to 512 MB of VRAM, but with Photoshop CS6's more advanced utilization of the GPU I have moved to a mutant, factory-overclocked, flashed ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1 GB of VRAM driving side-by-side dual 22" monitors in my current desktop Mac Pro 2.66 GHz under OS X Lion 10.7.5 and I couldn't possibly be happier.
I do run my second copy of Photoshop on my Mac Book (not "Pro") laptop with its stock Intel GMA 950 video circuitry and its paltry 64 MB of shared system memory, and it works just fine for the aforementioned purposes of showing Photoshop work to others. I wouldn't want to do any editing in Photoshop on that machine other than for minor touch-ups in an emergency, however.
Lastly, I feel compelled to add that, in my opinion, basic human decency would dictate that you offer Trevor some sort of apology for your presumptuousness in asking him to leave this thread. If I hadn't already begun typing this post before you posted your #6, I might have just ignored your thread. Considering the overall anti-laptop tenor of this post, you may well wish I had.

What is the best laptop for Photoshop Elements 10 ?

I have HP Pavilion g6 Notebook,i5-245M 2.5GHZ, 4 GB mwmory, 64-bit Operating system window 7, Radeon Graphics, Eidtior not working , I get error message ( Unable to continue because of hardware or system error,Sorry,but this error in unercoverable).
So I want to give this one to my son, and I want to bay new One for me,
but i do not want to have same Error with my new Laptop,
So any one know what is the best Laptop for PhotoShop Elements 10 ?
Thanks for Helping me .

I would suggest a machine with a multi-core processor and plenty of storage as photo files take up quite a lot of room over time. Many laptops have a screen resolution of 1366 x 768 and whilst elements will run OK some menu functionality will be missing if the display is not at least 800 pixels in height. A resolution of 1600 x 900 would be much better.
Independent advice is best, such as Which, UK. You can get a trial membership for as little as £1 to access their recommendations.
http://www.which.co.uk/technology/computing/reviews/laptops/best-buy/verdict/

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"checked that, but I am not a geek, do not really understand."
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Mac or pc for dreamweaver web design?

So just wondering anyone better to do this would think pc
since most users visiting the site are pc based? Im using at work a
mac for designing a new website using cs3, I test the files on a
outdated pc to see how the files work and look....... I cant upload
anything since when its done i have to pass the files to the owner
to upload the pages since im not allowed access to it.....

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>I have a MAC (G5 dual 2.3 MHz Power PC) which I bought
primarily to run
>Final Cut Pro. This machine also has dreamweaver CS2
installed but I rarely
>use it for web development.
> My other computer is a core2 quad 28.3 MHz PC. Where I
do 99% of my web
> design using Dreamweaver CS3.
>
> Both machines are very stable, fast and reliable.
Overall, I prefer
> working on the PC, I feel more comfortable with the PC
because my first
> computer was a PC (286), I have 11 years experience with
the PC platform.
> Also, the PC lets me prview my designs on all the
primary browsers; IE,
> FF, Safari, and Opera
>
> My advice, go with the machine on which you have the
most work experience.
> Its not so much the program you use, its more about how
well adapted you
> are to the platform work flow.
>
> Jeff
>
>
> "takevin" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
> news:gib7d2$rap$[email protected]..
>> So just wondering anyone better to do this would
think pc since most
>> users
>> visiting the site are pc based? Im using at work a
mac for designing a
>> new
>> website using cs3, I test the files on a outdated pc
to see how the files
>> work
>> and look....... I cant upload anything since when
its done i have to
>> pass the
>> files to the owner to upload the pages since im not
allowed access to
>> it.....
>>
>
>

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Hello, I have been working part time as a freelance Web
Designer and am now looking to learn more about such things as CSS,
XHTML, PHP, MySQL, Dreamweaver and Flash (and more).
Which books/ resources do you recommend? The O'Reilly series?
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
Cheers,
Derek

Nancy O wrote:
> I went to the university of hard knocks. When I began in
this business,
> there were no "classes" in web design. I learned from
viewing source code
> on other web sites and keeping text libraries of code
snippets to refer back
> to.
>
> Of late, I have heard tales of misfortune by people who
have signed up for
> web design classes only to learn later that the
curricula / instructors were
> sorely lacking. That's not to say there aren't some good
courses at the
> community or extension level, just choose wisely &
poll people who've taken
> those courses to see if they are satisfied before you
pay your dime. You
> can't learn everything at once. Pace yourself. Focus on
one or two things
> now like XTML/CSS. Then expand into scripts, dynamic
languages & databases a
> little later to give yourself time to absorb it all.
>
> Eric Meyer has written many articles and books on CSS
>
http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/
>
> www.Lynda.com is a good for self-paced study via on-line
videos and
> documents.
>
> David Powers has written some very good books on
building dynamic sites with
> PHP in DW. When you're ready, look on Amazon.com for
used copies.
>
>
> --Nancy O.
> Alt-Web Design & Publishing
> www.alt-web.com
>
>
>
>
> "Media Corp." <[email protected]> wrote
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>> Hi Nancy, thanks for your reply.
>>
>> I have been using W3Schools over the past few years
with great success.
> I
>> feel like I have learned a lot, and, most
importantly, I've learned that
>> teaching yourself can leave 'holes' in your
knowledge base (the term 'you
> don't
>> know what you don't know' comes to mind).
>>
>> I'm fortunate to have the opportunity to either:
>>
>> A) Study Web Design full time at a college
>>
>> or
>>
>> B) Round-out my current (self-taught) knowledge with
some great books.
>>
>> I think books (and definitely formal education),
have the benefit of a
>> coordinated, well developed 'curriculum'. I think
I've picked up enough
> bad
>> habits while teaching myself over the past few
years...so perhaps a more
>> 'structured' delivering would be good.
>>
>> But, I don't know. So any help would be greatly
appreciated!
>>
>> How did you get started in Web Design? What route
would you recommend to
> a
>> 'newbie'?
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Derek
>>
>
>
I can recommend the latest David Powers book "The Essential
Guide to
Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS Ajax and PHP"
I started skimming this book and ending up going through
cover to cover.
I've learned a few tips about using Dreamweaver better,
especially
getting most from the way the CSS panel works and heaps about
PHP which
has made me rethink completely my approach to forms etc. Lots
of
titbits to fill in those gaps you mentioned. This guy is such
a good
communicator I've now ordered his book on PHP solutions as
it's got me
fired up to want to understand it better. I doubt I'll ever
be
programming from scratch but at least my troubleshooting and
customisation cabability should improve.
Jan

Flash and SEO for Ecommerce Web Design

Hi
I am working with a web design company in the UK and was wondering if there are any indications of when Flash could be recognised by Google?
This is a major issue as the design features are fantastic but SEO is a nightmare.
I would love to introduce it within our ecommerce web design solutions, but only when the issue is resolved.
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In SEO terms, content is king. Basically, if you have no HTML headings and text on your web pages, there's nothing much for search engines to grab onto. No content = no traffic.
Flash is invisible to SEs, translators, screen readers, iPhones/iPads, and many other web devices. To support the widest possible audience, you might want to re-think your need for Flash and switch to HTML. Almost anything you can do with Flash can be done reasonably well with jQuery (JavaScript) http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle/
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http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/
Google's SEO Starter Guide (PDF)
http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.p df.
Good luck with your project,
Nancy O.
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Which drive for Photoshop?

I have 3 hard drives one for OS, one for Photoshop and one for back up.
I inadvertently allowed my CS4 upgrade to load onto the OS drive, CS3 is on the Photoshop drive.
If I load Photoshop from the dock I get a message saying 'This application has been moved from the location in which it was originally installed. Some settings need to be repaired.' If I cancel this PHotoshop loads so it is no big problem but would be nicer to load directly.
On the Photoshop forum I am advised that it would be better to have Photoshop on the boot drive.
I thought I had read on this forum that Mac users often have Photoshop on its own drive so would I be better to transfer CS4 alongside CS3 on its own drive, and how do I do that?

Hi daveat22;
I think that I read on this forum exactly what they told you on the Adobe forum to leave PhotoShop on the system. Loading the application is not that much of a load so having it with the system isn't a problem.
In order to do that you might have to uninstall both copies and start over again. I know when I downloaded the demo I had troubles load my purchased copy until I uninstall the demo.
Allan

Which printer for photoshop

which printer is best for photoshop and has postscript capabilities, RIP options and can read halftones ?? for screenprinting

While I don't have an answer, I can tell you that you will get better answers with more info.
What is the end target?
Proofing?
Hobby?
Selling individual photos? Premium or basic?
Fine art prints?
Cutting stencils for direct screen printing?
Making camera ready separations?
Something else?
Are you happy to spend $10 or more per page, or do you want something economical?
What do you mean "read halftones"?

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I just purchased a 15" 2.0GHz Macbook Pro. I am a graphic designer and soon-to-be web designer. Will the 2.0Ghz Processor be suitable enough to run the programs I need (Adobe Creative Cloud). Could use some advice. Thanks!

Hawk74x,
does Adobe provide guidance on minimum and recommended hardware for using Creative Cloud? Have you checked the forums at adobe.com, to see if there are recommendations there?
I’m not a graphic designer myself, but I know a graphic designer who still uses Creative Suite 2 on an old G4 — so if your MacBook Pro is a Late 2013 model with a 2.0 GHz Core i7 Crystal Well CPU, my guess is that the CPU will be eminently suitable, and that your bottleneck, if any, will be with the amount of RAM that was soldered onto your MacBook Pro.

Which new Laptop for Photoshop CS4

My present laptop (Asus 3053WXMi)has proven to be too slow for the new CS4. I have been doing some research into laptops but it is almost a science trying to work out which is best. I have been looking at the following possibilites and would like feedback as to your opinions and other options.
SONY VAIO FW21Z C2D 2.53 4GB/500 BLU-RAY/RW 16.4#VHP
SONY VAIO AW11Z C2D 2.53 4GB/640 BLU-RAY/RW 18.4#VHP (more expensive!)
ASUS G71V-7S024G 17" WXGA+ (powerful but ugly)
FSC Amilo Xi 3650-006 (Only 32 bit system??????)
Do any of you have any feedback? I live in Denmark so unusual laptops like Alienware cannot be bought here.
I realise that 4 GB ram is a must and I have only looked at powerful 2.53 GHz processors but the graphic cards are really confusing me. I work in 2d in Photoshop creating artwork.
(I would like to have a Blue Ray too that writes so I can make extra backup of my precious files).
Thank you :-)

The HP dv7tqe has the ability for 2 HDD and has the new Sandy Bridge 2630QM i7, but the downfall is no USB 3.0, not a huge problem till I want something that uses it,
Which would be? Unless you plan to use an external disk as your primary working drive this is a non-issue and I'm sure you could by a PC Card USB3 exteneder, if ever needed. Following your logic, nobody should buy a notebook before 2012, just because until then Apple have exclusive rights to Thunderbolt, which of course is utter nonsense. Would an average user ever even exploit this theoretical bandwidth? Same for your USB 3. So in fairness, buy what you need now, not what you may need next year...
and it has the Radeon HD 6570 with 1 gig of DDR5 ram. This video card isn't that good, but I was wondering if it was good enough to use with Photoshop and illustrator.
*LOL* You know, 10 years ago people would have killed for it. You have a completely wrong impression of how much PS uses OpenGL features. that card wil ldo just fine, as long as its driver and configuration are compatible with PS.
Mylenium

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Thinking of buying the touchsmart tm2-1010ea would this run photoshop, flash and dreamweaver ok?

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There are no specs. listed on the site so you will have to look them up your self.

I am a student and have paid to be a member and use creative cloud, I am trying to download adobe apps for my web design cours. I am on a new PC, window 7, i successfully downloaded acrobat app. but unable to download photoshop, illustrator and dreamwea

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Exit Code: 6
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Macbook Air 13inch for Graphic / Web Design ?

Hi guys, I decided to come here to ask for some expert help if i should buy the macbook air or pro. But before that, let me tell you what I usually do.
I use Adobe Fireworks as my primary design tool for web graphics / screen graphics, maybe use Photoshop / Illustrator for "brochure" or packaging projects in the future.
I like the fact that the 13inch air has a 1400 x 900 resolution, which is close to the resolution of my new monitor, around 1600 x 900 ( upgraded from an old aoc monitor that only displays 1024 x 768 )
I also like to surf a lot of videos, youtube etc, I dont play games that much since I already have an xbox for that. I don't do 3d or heavy video editing
In my old pc when I open like 10 browser windows, it slows down , and having a hard time when editing a project with 300 dpi on lets say a 20 x 20 inch canvas. My old pc still runs but a few times in a year, I get it repaired or I replace the memory ram or something.
This is my current computer setup which I bought last 2006 >
Windows XP SP 2
Pentium 4 2.66 ghz
1.5GHZ DDR SDR1 ram
nvidia geforce fx 5500 256mb
40gb harddisk
Based on what Ive mentioned.
1.) Comparing my old 2006 pc to the air, will it give me x 2 or x 3 speed on the things that I need ?
2.) Air doesn't have a LAN port, i connect my pc through LAN, but if I use wifi, will my net speed be slower ?
3.) There are rumors that there will be an air update this summer, to include the sandy bridge processors, should I wait for this ?
Thanks , hoping to hear your thoughts.

PC vs MBAir would be like comparing apples to windo.. err orange.
But regardless, there will be a very noticeable difference in speed when you upgrade your Pentium 4 to the MBA.
To put it in perspective, my MBAir 2010 seems to run faster than my Lenovo T410s core I5 CPU and both have SSDs and both have 4GB ram. Both models came out last year.
Wifi is usually slower than LAN. But I dont see any noticeable difference in speed using LAN vs wifi unless you transfer large files within your network. Your internet connection will usually be the bottleneck (when uploading/downloading files off of the internet) and is usually slower than your wifi (wireless G around 50ish Mbps vs 3Mbps DSL - with upload speeds being much slower).
I'd say if you need the upgrade, get it. If you'd rather wait, that's fine too - You'd just be stuck with your old equipment for several months waiting for the new model. (Or... you can wait until the new model is out, and buy the old model for MUCH cheaper price :D)

Slices & Extract Assets, or Copy CSS & paragraph styles for retina web designs?

I'm trying to figure out how Adobe wants me to work in Photoshop when producing website designs.
Extract Assets is useful for fixed-size objects to produce 50% & 100% assets. 200% png output results in anti-aliasing even from vector shapes. Please correct me if I'm wrong but this seemed to be the case. Slicing is useful for elements on the site that may have variable height/width needing end-caps and repeat-x or repeat-y images e.g. buttons and nav-bars.
If I need to work at 2x resolution for retina, using Extract Assets and Slices, my paragraph and character styles dimensions are doubled, as are the dimensions of all my objects. This makes the Copy CSS a bit pointless - double height, width, margin, padding, shadow blur etc.
Should I be designing at 2x resolution and extracting and slicing, or at 1x and using Copy CSS, exporting paragraphing styles? Or something in-between?

Hi Ben, I ammended this line of code as you have shown and still I have no joy. So I reverted to an older version which was correct, but i am stil having the same issue.
I have a my_site folder (defined local root folder), with the index.dwt in it. In my_site there is also an assets folder with 3 further folders, CSS, JS and Images and their respective files in these.
Bregent. Thanks, I did define at set up. I went back to manage sites and checked there too and thr root file on the local is the same at set up. I just don't get why after I made changes to the carousel and and reiploaded the site I have had issues :-(
Any other places I should be looking people? This is driving me crackers!

Which Laptop for Photoshop + Web Design? (under 1000$)

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