Laptop for art school

[Guest]

Hey,

so. Here's a challenge.. I'm thinking about getting a laptop for art school - obviously it should be fairly light because I'll carry it around all day and the battery should last for a while. 

I will mostly be doing a lot of writing and browsing, however I also do digital art and illustration, so the laptop should be able to handle Photoshop and equivalent applications and the display should at least be decent with colour accuracy.

 

I don't need a too much storage - all my work will be ideally backup-ed on another machine at the end of the day, but temporary files tend to get big.

 

However, now comes the interesting part: because I am working with a lot of different storage devices this machine needs to have an optical drive, an sd-card reader and either an HDMI- or VGA-output. 

 

I think that was kind of it. Thanks for the answers

[The Torrent]

edit removed post cuz i didnt read it all lol

 

optical drive? in 2019? no chance ull have to go external

consider getting an ipad pro with pencil and keyboard new one has usb c so u can get external io.

 

i can think of a billion things but need some budget how much money u got

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, The Torrent said:

edit removed post cuz i didnt read it all lol

 

optical drive? in 2019? no chance ull have to go external

consider getting an ipad pro with pencil and keyboard new one has usb c so u can get external io.

 

i can think of a billion things but need some budget how much money u got

Ah, I wished there was some kind of nice solution for the optical drive situation. I hate carrying around a bunch of different adapters and external devices. I also never had an Apple device, so I'm not very sure. 

 

Well. I don't have a fixed budget yet because I'm still scouting for different solutions but but I'd like to keep it as low as possible.

[Catsrules]

The only computers I have seen that have optical drivers are either super cheap/old laptops or that are big laptops.

 

If I remember I think the HP Envy 17" has an optical drive. I think Asus has some big Gaming laptop that also had optical.

 

I woudln't limit my laptop selection just on laptops with optical drives. Just get an external USB drive and call it good.

 

 

[genexis_x]

Get an external DVD drive

 

Where are you from? Budget? Any preferences on weight and battery life?

[Guest]

6 hours ago, GeneXiS_X said:

Get an external DVD drive

 

Where are you from? Budget? Any preferences on weight and battery life?

I'm from Europe, as I said I have no fixed budget yet but because I'm an art student, I'd like to keep it as cheap as possible. I'll also carry the thing around all day, so it shouldn't be too heavy and the battery should last a long time.

[genexis_x]

1 hour ago, moodysky said:

it shouldn't be too heavy and the battery should last a long time.

Max weight and min battery life?

[Guest]

36 minutes ago, GeneXiS_X said:

Max weight and min battery life?

I guess at max 2kg and at least 6-7 hours of battery life.