Whats a good laptop for digital art?

[Mu Rho Ni]

Hey there. I know I've already asked for advice on a pc build but I realized  that a desk top pc wouldn't really be  feasible at this point. So I'm looking for a good laptop. any suggestions?

[Weisseman]

Got a price range in mind?

[the lone shadow wolf]

one thing I cant figure out is how to do digital art on my laptop

would like some help from any furson out their 

but otherwise there are many computers that can be used for digital art

[Mu Rho Ni]

Got a price range in mind?

$1000.00 or lower would be my price range. I could go a little higher but i would prefer to stay at 1000 or below.

[Alsek]

If money weren't an issue i'd go with: http://shopap.lenovo.com/mm/en/laptops/thinkpad/w-series/w530/#tab-features

But if you're in the 1000 and below range i'd focus on getting a laptop with an excellent processor and at least an okay graphics card.  Get an LED backlit screen. (not just a regular lcd screen.) An SSD will make loading massive programs like photoshop go a lot faster.

Avoid dell.

If you have any extra left over then you can use it on a good tablet.  Wacom Intuos vs bamboo makes a huge difference.

[Mu Rho Ni]

I'll keep that in info in mind. Dat Lenovo tho lol. Thanks for the input 

[Weisseman]

That Lenovo is overkill for anything less than industrial 3D rendering

What sort of software will you be looking at using on it?

It might be worth going for a high end CPU without a discrete GPU.

[Alsek]

Overkill,   yes,   but good luck finding color correction like that on anything else.   xD

Also, As odd as it may sound,   my old t61 and my t400 both had issues with some of the stuff i was doing in illustrator.   Only my desktop was able to handle it.    ^.~

[Mu Rho Ni]

That Lenovo is overkill for anything less than industrial 3D rendering

What sort of software will you be looking at using on it?

It might be worth going for a high end CPU without a discrete GPU.

Sketchbook pro6, manga studio 5, probably photoshop also. Thats what id like to use.

[GrayWolf448]

my 2009 macbook pro runs sketchbookexpress pretty well and that program seems pretty nice for drawing, i just need to work on drawing :/

tho this thing was around $2K but that's from 5 years ago so you might be able to find a cheaper one.

[Mu Rho Ni]

Seeing how i wont be running games on the laptop would an i5 be a sufficient processor?

[Keitsu]

Yep. I use a core i5 processor for gaming, so it should easily be sufficient

Avoid HP laptops... they have lots of problems and they are prone to overheating. Especially avoid dell..

[the lone shadow wolf]

marf

all i got is an acer net book very slow now does anyone know how to do digital art on it

[Mu Rho Ni]

Would this be sufficient? Acer Aspire V5-552G-X852. It has an AMD Quad-Core A10-5757M Accelerated Processor and the graphics are AMD Radeon HD 8750M Graphics. Would that run the afore mentioned programs sufficiently?

[Weisseman]

It seems the screens colour reproduction is pretty bad on that. Not helpful for what you want. The best I can find right now that has good colour reproduction for the price you'd like it this: Lenovo W530

All the laptops that have an IPS screen (good colour reproduction on those) are over $1k. That lenovo seems pretty good at the reproduction for non IPS.

Have to see if anyone else can find something.

[Old Rabbit]

If your just using art software like gimp, Illustrator, or photoshop. It shouldn't
take a really high end computer. I started using photoshop on a window's 95
computer 18 years ago with a 120 pentium with 32megs of memory. That's
with a drawing tablet too. Of course computers have come a long way since.

I would say spend your money on good software and a tablet. I think most any
computer capable of running windows 7 and at least two gig of memory should
be adaquate for the job.

With a laptop be sure to get a good hires display. That's the window to your work.