Budget Laptop/Tablet/PC for Photoshop

[VTECMFR]

Looking for some help please.

I want to play around with Photoshop or Lightroom, just for fun and for personal use, nothing business related or serious. But I'm wondering what is the cheapest way to go about it, It can be on any format, but I think ideally a pad with a pen would be good, but I just want to see how cheap it can be done, thinking sub £150.

Is this do-able or can anyone recommended a cheap way in?

My knowledge on this stuff is seriously bad, I just know that I would need at least 8GB of RAM to support Photoshop.

Any input is really appreciated, even if it's to tell me I haven't got a chance.

Thanks.

Matt

[bloomen]

I ran lightroom on an Acer v3-111p laptop with a Intel Celeron N2930 1.83 GHz processor and 4gb of ram. If I remember rightly it was a little bit sluggish but ultimately fine. It had a touch screen too. I don't know whether photoshop is more or less demanding.

You'd be hard pressed to buy a lower spec laptop these days, but I certainly wouldn't bother with any of the 32gb emmc ones or anything Intel atom based.

[VTECMFR]

Thanks Bloomen. I had been looking at one of the Acer jobbies, they seem to get good reviews and from what you say, they will do the job. Good to know at even 4GB yours was fine.

[HM-2]

For your use case I'd be looking second hand.

Something like a Dell E7440 should be attainable around £150. If you go refurb you'll get an i5 dual core/four thread, 8GB RAM and an SSD for £159. Several other sellers offering similar

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dell-Latitude-E7440-Ult...

If you went non-refurb you might even edge an i7 powered one. My old i7 7440 handled some pretty hefty workloads for a laptop, including multiple VMs.

[VTECMFR]

Yesss cracking input, this laptop looks idea.