Laptop for FiL

[audi321]

Hi all. I m well out of date with non Mac hardware but FiL has asked me to source him a new windows laptop.

£1000 budget.

He s a heavy photoshop user and wants a 4tb internal hard drive to store all his raw photos. Is an M.2 the latest thing to have?? I see there s some 4tb for around £200 but do these things fit laptops? How would I go about installing windows on it, or would I use it as ‘photo’ storage only?

Won t be playing games, and has a good monitor so screen not that important.

Any recommendations?

Edited by audi321 on Friday 6th June 20:25

[the-norseman]

Are you looking for a laptop and external drive or just an external drive?

[audi321]

Neither. An internal drive. I appreciate it will likely be a retro fit

[sgrimshaw]

You say laptop but as he'll be using an external monito would a mini PC work for him?

I've been using a Geekom IT12 for two years and it's been flawless. Loads of ports and can have an additional 2.5" or M2 SSD installed internally (very easy to do BTW).

Latest is their IT13:

GEEKOM Mini PC Mini IT13 2025 Edition, 13th Gen Intel i9-13900HK Mini Computers (up to 5.4 GHz), 32GB DDR4 2TB M.2 NVMe Gen4*4 SSD Desktop Computer | Windows 11 Pro | 8K Iris Xe Graphics | USB4.0 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F2H755G8?psc=1&r...

I'd buy again without hesitation.

[audi321]

No he definitely wants a laptop as he takes it to a camera club on a weekly basis.

[the-photographer]

There is a Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 5 -Intel Core ULTRA 7, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, 14" FHD+ NEW

With a 14" IPS 400 NITS FHD+ Screen (Anti-glare, Low Power, Eyesafe technology, ICC template colour calibration) screen and premier onsite support for £982

IF you are OK with ebay

[audi321]

Thanks. So basically any £750 laptop will do with a £250 additional M.2 4tb drive in.

Cheers all.