I have an HP Pavilion DV7 that I bought back in 2011. It was awesome and super fast when I originally purchased it. Now, not so much. We use it at our bakery and something we do require multiple browsers (Ie. and firefox) for example, we use the newest version of office and photo editors (photoshop would be preferred but it drags down performance too much).
We need a big screen to work on because we do a lot of images on products we make and frequently we either have to touch the images up or flatout edit them because someone wants something removed or tweaked. We also do our own marketing so having a bigger view is important.
So I'm weighing to options
1. Upgrade the current laptop - I honestly don't know much about laptop hardware so I'm not even sure this is an option but this was an expensive laptop when I purchased it and if its possible to avoid buying a brand new laptop I would prefer not to. Maybe memory??? not sure if there is anything else to do or how much of an impact that would actually have?
2. Buy a new laptop, stick with higher performance but go with a much smaller screen size. My thought is that where we use the laptop now I can purchase a 24" monitor and put it on a swivel on the wall and just leave a dvi or something cable attached to it to plug into the laptop. Since we don't always use it here a desktop isn't a great option and the power is spotty here so we'd need a UPS if we went with a desktop. If we were to upgrade what would you look at in current technology that might fit the bill?
Link to review on the current laptop: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2395615,00.asp
We need a big screen to work on because we do a lot of images on products we make and frequently we either have to touch the images up or flatout edit them because someone wants something removed or tweaked. We also do our own marketing so having a bigger view is important.
So I'm weighing to options
1. Upgrade the current laptop - I honestly don't know much about laptop hardware so I'm not even sure this is an option but this was an expensive laptop when I purchased it and if its possible to avoid buying a brand new laptop I would prefer not to. Maybe memory??? not sure if there is anything else to do or how much of an impact that would actually have?
2. Buy a new laptop, stick with higher performance but go with a much smaller screen size. My thought is that where we use the laptop now I can purchase a 24" monitor and put it on a swivel on the wall and just leave a dvi or something cable attached to it to plug into the laptop. Since we don't always use it here a desktop isn't a great option and the power is spotty here so we'd need a UPS if we went with a desktop. If we were to upgrade what would you look at in current technology that might fit the bill?
Link to review on the current laptop: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2395615,00.asp
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