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I need help picking a laptop for my artist.

Hello, I am looking to buy a new laptop for one of my staff members of my website. He's an artist who's been using a crappy old laptop for some time, and I feel a new machine would be a good investment for him and I. I have his priorities here:

 

  • Has a pen sensitive screen
  • Powerful enough to allow drawing on a 9000 x 9000 canvas in apps like Photoshop
  • Can play Minecraft

I have found a few laptops linked below, but I am also open to new ideas from the community. There is no tight budget. I plan to spend around $1200 but I can go higher or lower if someone has a really good fit for us. Gaming is not a priority, Minecraft is pretty easy to run. A good GPU can help with renders and exports but only so far on drawings, he isn't animating anything or working with video. I believe with drawing large files as a goal, a strong CPU, good RAM, some kind of GPU, and an SSD large enough to hold the scratch disk in Photoshop would be what we need. But I am not an expert in this. 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-Flex-15-Touchscreen-Quad-Core/dp/B07QJXSMXV/

 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/config/Surface-Book-2 (13", 8GB, i5, 256GB)

 

https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Surface-Intel-Core-512GB/dp/B07HZMVTL8/

 

Any and all advice is appreciated!

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I guess no one saw this. I did more research with my artist and we agreed on a model not listed above + an external USB tablet. I've made the purchase and no longer need advice on this topic. 

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14 hours ago, PacketMan said:

Yeah that's what you should always do, ask your staff about their needs, their suggestions and then their desires

Hope it works well for you! BTW, which model did you pick?

Thank you! :)

 

I did ask him about it first, before I came here. But he doesn't know a lot about computers, I was hoping someone who new more could provide some feedback. Preferably a computer geek who was also an artist. ❤️

 

We got this laptop and this tablet. 

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