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Yes, of course Jim. However, when buying a laptop for anything other than sending emails and light browsing, there is always a compromise involved. Yes, you can buy a gaming laptop, but a) they are expensive, b) the still run hot (comparing to a desktop of same spec), c) you will be limited when it comes to screen and screen for editing is important.
When it comes to desktop, you can spend as much as you want, you won't have a problem with temps (if built well) and you can pair it with any screen you want (yes, you can do that with laptop too, but that defeats the purpose of having a laptop in the first place if you are chained to the desk where your monitor is anyway).
I have went through all of that myself. I edit photos professionally and as some of you remember I have bought an expensive laptop to be able to edit photos on the go (when abroad). Unfortunately editing photos on a 15" screen is really not ideal at all. So what I found myself doing instead is informing my clients that I will be out of town for that amount of time and using that expensive laptop for emails and light browsing instead. Laptops are just not ideal for editing, there is just too many compromises with them. Even though I have a machine that on paper is more than capable of doing what I want, in real world it is just too much for it. After 15 min in Photoshop with the fast working that I usually do the laptop reaches 100C and beyond. There is just too much electronics cramped into tiny space with them. With the small screen I'm very limited in my field of view on the screen, even though the screen is 4k native. When it comes to colour grading I like to do that when zoomed out, but even though the screen is properly colour calibrated, zoomed out photo on a 15" screen is just tiny. It also forces me to move the photo a lot more around the screen when zoomed in and working on detail, which in turn makes it much less efficient comparing to when I'm on my primary machine.
With desktop, you can buy a second hand PC for a relatively little amount of money that will solve most if not all of the problems mentioned.
Of course, this all is just my opinion, whatever that is worth.
By the way, I know of professional retouchers who work on laptops exclusively. So in a way what I have said above is a waste of your time. However, having done the same work on both laptop and desktop PCs, I can honestly say that, if I don't have to, I would never pick laptop as my primary machine... unless until engineers solve those fundamental problems mentioned above. Excuse long post. |
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2-12-2019 06:25:55
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