Laptop question?

Im looking at a 2 in 1 laptop for photo editing using lightroom 6 and photoshop elements.
Its a Acer - Aspire r14. 14 inch touch screen laptop.
It has Intel core i7 2.5 gigahertz with 8GB of memory.
a 512GB solid state drive.
Graphics card is a Intel HD graphics 520.
Ill be using an external hard drive for photo storage along with 24 inch monitor.
My (super old and slow) desktop computer finally died and I really like to form factor of the laptop and being able to edit when Im away from home.
Do you think this machine will work good with the specs it has. Best Buy sells it and I have a few gift cards I want to use up.

http://www.bestbuy.com …19755708588&sku​Id=4503200

Yep, looks good. Won't be as fast as a desktop but should be plenty fast enough. You can keep images currently being edited on the SSD, then offload to your external disk when you're done. Of course you should have backups at all points, because every disk ever made will fail - the only question is when.

That will be a great choice.
It has marginally faster specs than my 2012 Air and a larger SSD.

I batch in Lightroom, export and clean up a few in Photoshop Elements. All while listen to music off the same SSD.

I also highly recommend backing up your raw files and completed best Jpegs to an external ssd.

Enjoy it.