photoshop Photoshop best on PC or laptop?

[Newbie Steve]

My 12 yr old picked up some Photoshop skills rather quickly. He likes the setup below but it won't be used for gaming. I think the specs may be good though. Mom prefers laptop which sounds more practical but I'm not sure if a laptop is best for Photoshop users. Son mentioned needing a bunch of apps to get the most out of Photoshop and says 1-2 TB storage with min. 16 GB RAM is optimal for him.

 

Any feedback appreciated on PC specs below, PC vs laptop, etc. 

 

CyberPowerPC - Gaming Desktop - AMD Ryzen 7 2700X - 16GB Memory - AMD Radeon RX 590 8GB - 2TB HDD + 240GB SSD - White

ASUS - 24" LED FHD FreeSync Monitor - Black

Total cost ~$1258

 

Thank you!

[Origami Cactus]

Those are some high specs for photoshop.

Photoshop runs fine on my dual core 8gb ram laptop, it seems like your son just wants a gaming setup. 

1-2TB wont be needed unless he has a 100mpx camera and only uses raw files...

 

But 16gb of ram i agree on, it is good to have.

For PC, i would build one myself, it would yield a much more optimized setup than currently.

For cpu r5 3600 would be better, photoshop likes fast cores more than more cores.

 

But a work laptop with i7 8th/9th gen, 16gb of ram and mx150 would also work, photoshop doesn't use GPU that much. 

 

So figure out the actual use case first, and then decide on if a laptop would be good enough, or a pc is needed.

 

 

[Levent]

for a non gaming PC RX590 is highly suspicious lol.

[Akira Shimazu]

16 minutes ago, Levent said:

for a non gaming PC RX590 is highly suspicious lol.

true

 

 

your son basically asking for Gaming PC. ryzen 7? rx590? that is a too strong man. 

 

im using 700$ laptop which has i5 8250u 3.4Ghz and 8Gigs of ram can do it fine. although 16GB is recommended for making it very smooth. about i5/i7 is depended on the version itself. if its U version like the thin and light portable laptop it won't create much difference. my i5 8250u Vs i7 8565U only makes around 11% performance difference. and for me its not worth to have i7 on a laptop for the price.

[jones177]

It depends what you do with Photoshop.

 

I used earlier versions of Photoshop for creating texture maps for 3D games. Files sizes were 1920 X 1080 or less. 

Your setup would be fine for this.

 

Later on when I used Photoshop for editing images for print. That is when I went to 32mbs ram. My average print size was 22" X 28" at 300 pixels per square inch. That is 6600 X 8400 pixels. A little larger than 8k. If the work is around 4k with some at 8k, 16mbs is fine but at 8k and higher it is not. 

 

Photoshop runs fine on most laptops but I would not use one for any length of time unless it was connected to a monitor. I would also use a monitor 27" or higher.

The reasons have to do with posture and eye strain.