Best Laptop for LR/PS for Tether Capture

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TexasPilot

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Good Morning:

Your advice and recommendations would be most helpful.

I am thoroughly enjoying tether-capturing and find the opportunities for delightful experiences to be boundless. At the moment I am using the Camranger wireless to my iPad and a laptop.

I am able to remote capture directly into LR on the laptop using the TetherTools USB cable to a low-end laptop I have been borrowing.

Problem: It is excruciatingly slow to capture and "pop up" the photo as well as when I try to do some basic PR post-processing "in the field." (I don't know the specs of the laptop - but it pretty basic, previously used by an office for email, Word and XL. I can see the label: Dell Ultrabook, Intel Core 15 vPro).

Request: Your recommendations as to a specific laptop, or what I should specify if I have options as to the spec and features: RAM, Processing speed, memory, USB ports, etc? I don't "do" videos and I am not a "gamer."

I am going shopping for one (or via online) this weekend.

Please know that I before bothering this form I really tried to search this forum and other online sources using search terms:

Best laptop for Adobe
Best laptop for LightRoom
Best laptop for Photoshop
Best laptop for photography
Best laptop for photo processing
Etc.

Yes there were suggestions - with no two alike. The result is now "deer-in-the-headlights" confusion.

Regards from tech-challenged San Antonio.

Ed
 
Start with budget.
Next, what do you plan to do in the field? As in, do you want 1 hour or 8 hours of battery? Screen size?
Third, is this going to be primary editor? Temporary storage of the images?

These all play a factor in which Laptop to get.
 
tspear said:
Start with budget.
Next, what do you plan to do in the field? As in, do you want 1 hour or 8 hours of battery? Screen size?
Third, is this going to be primary editor? Temporary storage of the images?

These all play a factor in which Laptop to get.
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Thank you for helping me formulate the right questions.

Budget $1000 +/-. Maybe more.
15" screen should be fine.
Long battery life. I go to remote stretches of West Texas and SW states.
Secondary editor. Using it primarily for initial look with some light editing.
Temp storage. Everything will stay on my SD cards until I get home to download and back up.
Use in the field: Let others (and myself) see the photos as I take them. "Immediate gratification" of seeing the images larger than on the camera monitor or the iPad.
Non-commercial. This is my retirement avocation.

I am a Windows/PC users. Never learned MAC/Apple.
 
Get a Microsoft Surface.

Tim
 
16GB of ram. I find Lr consistently uses 2-4GB of ram. So 16 will give you room to run other applications as needed.
 
tspear said:
16GB of ram. I find Lr consistently uses 2-4GB of ram. So 16 will give you room to run other applications as needed.
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Thanks, Tim. Our local Costco has a "bundle" on sale now with the typing cover and other accessories.
 
tspear said:
16GB of ram. I find Lr consistently uses 2-4GB of ram. So 16 will give you room to run other applications as needed.
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Tim. Sorry to bother you but if I may . . . . the final item I need to know. It seems to come with our without an Nvidia Graphics card. Do I need it? Thanks for your patience. Ed
 
No you do not need it. However, if you have the cash. shrug.
I do not recall the model/shipset and even if it is supported by Adobe.
Also, the amount of items supported by Adobe for the GPU acceleration is fairly limited and all I believe are still limited to the develop module. Since the majority of functions you are discussing will be completed in the Library module, I doubt it is worth the additional cost.
 
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