My daughter has an ACER 12 inch Intel Pentium Dual Core with 4 GB of RAM. Is that enough for training or something more powerful?
If necessary, I would lend her my own, have a Lenovo Thinkpad edge E330 with an i5 CPU 3rd generation and 8GB of RAM, is a 14 incher.
Who knows about this?
Have found the following on the Internet, who can confirm or add:
Display size: 13 inches or 15 inches (less inappropriate)
Retina display: yes / no
Flash memory / Solid State hard drive: yes / no (price difference for the same size around 1000 euro)
Hard drive size: At least 500 GB, alternatively smaller and additional external memory.
Memory: 8 GB RAM or larger
Since she will probably work mainly with Adobe Illustrator.
For this program, the PC is basically sufficient, see here: https://helpx.adobe.com/...ments.html
Retina Display: No human needs.
Hard drive: Unimportant what kind, SSD would be faster, but now is not the end of the world if a normal hard drive in it works.
But what you should buy, would be a larger screen, because working on the small 12-inch mini-screen is not fun.
If you still want to buy a better PC, make sure that there's a graphics card in there that is not from Intel (because these are integrated graphics solutions with little power). Best something like a Geforce GTX.
Still have a gaming laptop, which I have hardly used until today, because I do not play.
Lenovo Y570 with an i7 CPU 2nd generation and 8GB of RAM and a dedicated second graphics card you can switch it on. The notebook is a 15.6 incher. I think that is a bit more suitable than my 14 inch, right?
The larger the notebook the better to work I have read.
Yeah, of course, the bigger the better, because you have to look at the screen for a very long time. This is less strenuous when the screen is larger, so the designs are displayed larger (without having to constantly zoom in).
With the graphics card you have to see if the program recognizes them. You can test the program for free, just download and install it and see how it works.
Well, the 12 "is a" mouse-shaped cinema "that could be used to do some office work and surf while out and about, but a pleasant work is something else, especially if the display is still mirrored.
But graphic programs? No, that's far too small and the CPU is far too weak. From the low ram expansion, I do not want to start.
Probably so will some, including some important program on it not at all executable, or usable, be.
Your 14 "is already too small.
It would go to absolute distress and only for a limited time, if you (at home) a large LCD monitor (23 ", or more like) with an" IPC panel "attached to it.
As a notebook, I would look for something in the range of 15.6-17 "and at least (!) FullHD, and the notebook should have an IPC display and be anti-reflective. (IPC panels have a much better color rendition and a wider viewing angle They are less "playable"
As a base I recommend a fast Core i5 and real 4 cores. And 16GB Ram I think appropriate. Likewise a fast SSD (250-500GB). A mobile Nvidia GTX graphics card would be much preferable to a simple IntelHD graphics card.
This is already in the direction of a "gaming" notebook, more precisely a good "multimedia" notebook.
The small 12 "acer could be used for simple tasks. (Hint: Maybe use an SSD for a much longer battery life.)
And the "strong" notebook is used for the correct and elaborate work. Or, alternatively, a sensible multimedia "desktop" PC.
The other problem with graphics software are the mostly extensive menus, submenus and the various function panels. If the display is too small, the actual "work surface" may be too small.
For editing photos and graphics are stored in memory uncompressed. That's where many gigabytes can come together. Therefore, I think 16GB is appropriate. A possible upgrade would be welcome.
I have no personal experience to that extent. But a friend of mine works elaborately with Photoshop. He often needs more than 20GB Ram to edit his RAW images. And he has a fast i7-8 kerner (with 16 threads). And several monitors. I think he has a Dell workstation. A real "beast".
But such will not be necessary for the training by far.
However, I suspect that eventually a graphics tablet will be needed as an input device.
Maybe you ask the future trainers (company / school), which software and thus hardware, is needed, or would be useful. They should have the appropriate knowledge.
I hope I did not scare you too much. That was not my intention.
So it's getting "warmer"…)
Can this Lenovo notebook also be upgraded to 16GB? And is possibly synonymous a SSD installed?
Thank you for your detailed comment. I think the requirements in education are not high. It uses the Adobe program Indesign CC. I still have an older 15.6 incher (gaming notebook) which I have hardly used until today because I do not play and thus use it only for burning and video editing. It's a Lenovo Ideapad Y570 with a 2nd generation i7 CPU and 8GB of RAM. As far as I know can't be upgraded. Maybe still on 12 GB, do not know exactly. The notebook also has two graphics cards. An Intel HD 3.000 and an Nvidia Geforce GT 555M. I think she can do more with her than with her netbook. Do you think that is enough for now?
I have a SSD 512 GB built in extra. 8GB is the maximum!
But once called Notebookbilliger and asked for what they can recommend me as a notebook. The synonymous advised to 8GB RAM for the software: Indesign CC from Adobe.
I have a SSD 512 GB built in extra. 8GB is the maximum!
But once called Notebookbilliger and asked for what they can recommend me as a notebook. The synonymous advised to 8GB RAM for the software: Indesign CC from Adobe.
So I think 8GB is completely sufficient. Everything else is overkill. The situation is different when designing catalogs with Indesign or huge photo collages with Photoshop. But a graphics program really does not have much memory usage.
It is definitely a much better solution.
The GT 555M (1GB DDR3) is about twice as fast as the HD 3000 and roughly the same speed as a more modern HD 5500.
http://gpuboss.com/graphics-card/GeForce-GT-555M?q=GeForce%20GT%20555M&ts=1546955272748
But "fast" is something else. Especially if you have 3D games and 3D applications in mind. In pure 2D mode, you probably will not notice too much difference.
The GT models are designed as pure desktop Grakas and not designed as a game Graka. There are the GTX series. And the "m" stands for the energy-saving, but also weaker "Mobil" series.
For pure 2D applications, it could be sufficient for the time being.
But here, too, I still recommend an SSD to increase the battery life and make the system more responsive.
Possibly. Would it be good to look for a replacement or second battery. If the notebook runs for less than 3 hours without power, it could be "a bit" tight for a school day.
And if the notebook has an HDMI or DVI output, you could connect it to a SmartTV. And by means of an adapter, it would also work by VGA (basically). A reasonable LCD monitor would still be the better choice.
And as far as the software is concerned, I think that this "Adobe Illustrator" or "Adobe Indesign" seems to be very popular. Personally, I know nothing about it, since I do not deal with such.
If a software purchase is due, think of the possible "student discount". And sometimes even schools and training companies provide a free or discounted special version. I would ask.
But over time, claims will likely increase. Therefore, I would start saving now.
Because of the software you should ask at school what is preferred there. (=> Data exchange and compatibility)
But otherwise that sounds pretty good to me already.
Thank you. I think my notebook will last for the training. Later, for work, she will then have to buy a more appropriate more powerful.
