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Photography computer.

Hi all! So I'm an amateur photographer who's been starting to take some paid jobs and I need a good computer that runs Photoshop and messaging and all that good stuff! I need something to essentially replace my aging MacBook Air. I don't need a monitor as I have good one that I used with my MacBook Air. Just FYI. 

Thanks!

Computer Systems
Min. Budget
$1000.00
Max. Budget
$2000.00
Deadline
1 month ago
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3/25/2026

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Asus VivoBook 16X OLED F1605 Laptop (2022) | 16" 1920x1200 FHD+ | Core i5 - 1235U - 1TB SSD Hard Drive - 40GB RAM | 10 cores @ 4.4 GHz Win 11 Pro Black
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For your professional photography work, I recommend buying a laptop with a high-accuracy OLED or Liquid Retina XDR display and at least 32GB of RAM to ensure your Photoshop and Lightroom workflows are smooth even for large files. Within your budget, the Apple MacBook Pro 14 (M3/M5 Pro) is excellent for industry-standard color fidelity, while the ASUS Vivobook Pro 16X OLED provides a larger 16-inch 4K screen and a dedicated NVIDIA GPU that significantly speeds up AI-based editing features. Being an Editor myself I would highly recommend these two options.

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I like that asus. I think I’m sold. 

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I think a laptop would be best if you can recommend something that is powerful enough to run stuff like Photoshop and Lightroom.

then my recommendation would be a

M4 Macbook air

Well you were using a older MBA so why not get a new one also the older M3 and M2 models are good but i assumed thay you wanted a brand new one. as for why MBA well thin lasts long and has the oomf to when you wanna do more compute intensive stuff

 

Also the referals are borked rn so i had to submit using a reply

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