Best (non mac) notebook for photography?

I've got a HP DV6 series laptop and it has a Dual Core 2.6Ghz processor, 4Gb Ram, 512Mb dedicated graphics and a 320Gb hard drive. I know the hard drive isn't massive but you can get a bigger one and install it. I've got PSE9 and PS5 running on the laptop speedily enough and a nice bright 17" moniter on it too. There is a newer series out now, the DV7 which is even better by all accounts, but I'm happy with mine. It was about £450 when I bought it about a year ago and worth every penny.

Just went to Apple store...
For 2000 USD you have 21.5 iMac with i5 2.5 and 512 RAM video.
They look really phenomenal though. I have no mac experience, but I guess except for RAM you cannot change other components with time, correct?

Thanks a lot
Just check it here....

Lenovo ThinkPad W520 i7-2630QM/15,6 FHD (1920x1080) NVQ 1000M/250GB/16G/DVDRW/​6cell/Win 7 64Bit

Looks very powerful. The cost is 2000 USD where I live. Seems to be a very decent notebook!

palmor wrote in post #13753313
And this is why threads like this get locked.

The OP stated he wanted a windows machine, so lets honor that and give him some ideas for what he wants.

OP, I can't give you specific models since I'm not sure what is available where you are or what prices are like. Lenovo makes the W520 which is a very nice laptop for photo editing (high gamut screen and build in color meter). Dell makes an equivalent model but higher priced (if you consider the coupons you can get).

As far as specs go a lot is going to depend on if this is going to be your primary computer? If it is the next question is are you going to use an external monitor for your editing or the laptop monitor? I think to give meaningful suggestions we'll need to know those things.

Also, as someone else suggested you should ask to move this to the appropriate forum, I think you'll get more useful feedback.

light_pilgrim wrote in post #13754350
Thanks a lot
Just check it here....

Lenovo ThinkPad W520 i7-2630QM/15,6 FHD (1920x1080) NVQ 1000M/250GB/16G/DVDRW/​6cell/Win 7 64Bit

Looks very powerful. The cost is 2000 USD where I live. Seems to be a very decent notebook!

That is essentially the same computer I have (bought it last Nov) but with coupons I managed to get it for $1600 including a 3 year accidental coverage. Make sure you call when ordering instead of just ordering online, at least in the US they'll work a deal with you.

I take the laptop to all my shoots so the insurance was a need (even more considering about a year before I bought a W510 and didn't opt for insurance and I busted it on a shoot).