Need laptop recommendations

[Swiftfeather]

First thing's first: 

• This laptop is for my sister
• This laptop is for a light gamer. GTX 1050 would be fine.
• $2000 is about as much as I think I could convince my mother to do.
• She needs it for school (lightweight)
• She wants to be able to smoothly photoshop without issue.
• GOOD DISPLAY. She don't need no shitty whitewashed IPS or poor-angle-TN display.

 

Okay, here's my two cents. I'm looking for a laptop for my sister, she likes to use photoshop, but our 'family' laptop is some $400 laptop from 3 years ago. (it's bad. mmkay?) It'd be great if it weren't some giant fucking brick, she needs to be able to take it to school and use it on the go and such. I would love for it to have a 1050 and 500GB SSD, also an IPS panel with good contrast is a must. I was looking at the surface book 2, but the only 500 GB ssd variant they have also comes with 16 GB RAM and is $500 more expensive than the version with 256GB and 8GB of RAM... A huge spike.

I don't know laptops. Please link laptops that would work well for her use case. 

[Paparachipupopep]

Aero 15 or Aero 15X

https://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-15W-BK4-i7-7700HQ-Windows-Notebook/dp/B071LR37DK/

https://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-15X-BK4-i7-7700HQ-Windows-Notebook/dp/B0763HJSQ7

[Himommies]

The MAcbook Pro

https://www.apple.com/ca_edu_93120/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro

Or a Surface

[MasterRaceMcqueen]

http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/xps-15/spd/xps-15-9560-laptop/dncwxb1637sv2/configurations?selectionState=eyJGUHJpY2UiOjExMjQuOTksIk9DIjoiZG5jd3hiMTYzN3N2MiIsIlF0eSI6MSwiTW9kcyI6W3siSWQiOjE0NiwiT3B0cyI6W3siSWQiOiI1MjJZTkoiLCJQcmljZSI6MTUwLjB9XX0seyJJZCI6NiwiT3B0cyI6W3siSWQiOiIxMDUwR1RYIiwiUHJpY2UiOjUwLjB9XX0seyJJZCI6NCwiT3B0cyI6W3siSWQiOiJFTkdGUCIsIlByaWNlIjoyNS4wfV19LHsiSWQiOjU3MiwiT3B0cyI6W3siSWQiOiJGRzAwMjAifV19LHsiSWQiOjc0OSwiT3B0cyI6W3siSWQiOiJDSTVTTUwifV19XX0%3D

[DrMacintosh]

Depending on her definition of gaming, this would work great for all of those:

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=MPXW2LL/A&step=config# 

 

When school is concerned in you need battery life and portability so a beefy GPU is going to have to take the back seat. 

[Swiftfeather]

6 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

Depending on her definition of gaming, this would work great for all of those:

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=MPXW2LL/A&step=config# 

 

When school is concerned in you need battery life and portability so a beefy GPU is going to have to take the back seat. 

Light gaming as in she will play AAA titles, she just doesn't care so much about 'DAT 144FPS' or 'da best graph1cs!' like I would

[DrMacintosh]

Just now, Swiftfeather said:

Light gaming as in she will play AAA titles, she just doesn't care so much about 'DAT 144FPS' or 'da best graph1cs!' like I would

AAA gaming is not "light" lol 

[Swiftfeather]

2 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

AAA gaming is not "light" lol 

She's not gonna be playing all the time, it'll be a once in a while kind of thing. I want to introduce her to the land of limitless possibilities AKA PC gaming

[genexis_x]

Dell XPS 15 and Lenovo Yoga 720 15 inch with 4k display