How is this laptop for photo and video editing?
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Brett, I am a professional photographer but don't really do any video editing on this laptop. As far as photo editing, I think it's pretty great, especially for the price I paid for it. I second-guessed the screen calibration but checked it to be fairly spot-on. I am using Photoshop CS5 on it, and it runs just fine with the RAM and decent processor speed. My priority on a laptop purchase was the screen size, this one being 15.5" it was about as small as I wanted to go. All in all I am pleased with this machine, and I purchased it specifically for image editing and transmitting as I work for local news media and sporting teams here. Hope this helps.
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I use my ENVY for everything from Adobe Photoshop and Creative Suite to online gaming. The graphics chip is one of the best, but I also spend alot of time editing photography, and creating things. I've had great luck with the way the processor works, and haven't experienced lag.
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The camera is great for a built-in. I am very satisfied with this computer not a big fan of windows 8. But great family computer.
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I am not sure how resource heavy video editing is, but here is what I have been doing with it. I first upgraded it to 8 gb ram and windows 8.1 professional, and it is used as a hideaway mobile pc for a semi truck. I have been using it for 2 years, and it performs everything I need to run my business, and all without a hitch. Scanning, printing, all sorts of document manipulation, trucking software, asset tracking, payroll etc. It has exceeded my expectations. I would think if you upgrade the ram, it should do a decent job for video editing, but would be a poor choice for gaming. Hope that helps.
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Honestly, I've had nothing but issues since purchasing this laptop. I personally have not used it for video editing, but would not buy it for that specific purpose.
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Mine serves me admirably for photo editing. I don't do gaming or watch movies on it, so I can't comment on those areas.
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It should be a super computer for photoshop and others because of his super i7 processor, but I haven't tried yet that kind of programs, I just use it in bed before I sleep. and I'm not very happy with the windows 8 as well...very sluggish..all over the house isn't very pleasent because is quite heavy and does not have a good way of grabbing it, but once you sit, it becomes very nice because of it's big screen and it does not get hot either under the case. about the duration of the batteries is around an hour and a have.
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I have had mine for several months and I believe it is a fine laptop. No complaints so far.
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For photo editing and stuff, i would recommend you to go for 8 gigs of ram. It really helps
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The screen is excellent and very sharp for photo viewing. For the type of photo editing I do professionally, I'd say it's too small, but for amateur snapshot editing it would be fine. I don't have a very good frame of reference for judging the processor, but I'm able to open large files on this computer much more quickly than on the PCs I use at work.
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It's an ideal machine. Since you're working with video, you might want to make sure the ram is maxed out if it's not already. 8 gigs is max.
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The laptop is very good, fast, The batery is ok, all with this laptop is ok
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This is very good laptop overall, just Windows 7 are slowing it down quite a bit ( despite 3 GB of RAM installed).If you gonna use this I recommend replacing Windows w/ Linux ( I use Lubuntu very light & efficient free OS).
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It's powerful enough to handle basic video editing (chopping together home movies or YouTube videos) and could certainly handle music editing. I've played some games on it and they seem to run smoothly. It does not have a discrete graphics card, only packs 4GB of ram, and has an tiny 11" screen, so this definitely isn't a gaming laptop, but it will play your basic PC game.
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Yes it is a very nice laptop for the price. The only problem is that it has Windows 8 as the OS. If I were you I would wait till Windows 9 comes out and then purchase it.
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For the price you will get solid performance. All the specs are listed on the amazon page. The only problem I ran is with 64bit operating systems
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So far it has been a great laptop, I preferred Windows 7 and it was configured with this version. I had a HP laptop and this one seems solid, besides the HP motherboard died after about a year and a key broke. It's fast, I'm not a gamer so if this is your main hobby I have no idea what it will do.