Laptop Recommendations

[thomasme123]

Laptop recommendations 

Need recommendations 

Hi, i’m a highschool student going into graphic design. I don’t really know much if not anything about laptops but I need something that could run multiple programs (e.g. photoshop, illustrator, indesign). My budget is around 8-1K, any recommendations?

[saintlouisbagels]

How urgently do you need the laptop?

I would just recommend pooling up as much money as you can until you can at least afford a $1400-$1500 refurbished 14" MacBook M1 Pro / M2 Pro. The high performance CPU, quiet operation, long battery life, and amazing color-accurate screens are worth the cost.

 

A MacBook Air would probably suffice too... but 8GB of RAM is a huge risk, and upgrading to 16GB just feels like a massive rip-off.

 

Otherwise,

Lenovo's Yoga laptops are generally pretty good. I recommend you try to shop around and look at Best Buy's Open-Box offers.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?st=lenovo+yoga&_dyncharset=UTF-8&_dynSessConf=&id=pcat17071&type=page&sc=Global&cp=1&nrp=&sp=&qp=&list=n&af=true&iht=y&usc=All+Categories&ks=960&keys=keys