Any 16 or 17 inch laptop great for photo editing and long 5-7 hour battery life?

Is there any 16 or 17 inch laptop great for photo editing and long 5-7 hour battery life? Does something like this exist?

IMHO the monitor is the most important element for photo editing...do you plan to plug in a large external monitor, or to utilize only the smallish somehwhat imited resolution monitor that comes with the laptop?

And do you plan to utiliize a higher capacity external storage unit (HD/SSD) rather than the limited capacity storage unit that comes in the laptop?

16" MacBook Pro claims up to 15 hours battery life while browsing the web. Even if photo editing gave you 1/3 the life that woudl be 5 hours. And the screen will be very nice.

Anything in PC? I would like to use it while camping.

oharing wrote in post #19492806
Anything in PC? I would like to use it while camping.

I’ve heard and read good things about the Dell XPS models. I don’t have any personal experience with the newer models however. See https://www.dell.com …op/spd/xps-15-9520-laptop for some offerings. With many Dell’s it sometimes pays to not load it up with memory or storage as they are very easy to work on and in most instances the shop manuals are online. Having said that I see models that can have 64GB of RAM and SSD storage up to 8TB.

Notebookcheck is known to do very extensive reviews. Start at https://www.notebookch​eck.net/

Wilt wrote in post #19492739
IMHO the monitor is the most important element for photo editing...do you plan to plug in a large external monitor, or to utilize only the smallish somehwhat imited resolution monitor that comes with the laptop?

And do you plan to utiliize a higher capacity external storage unit (HD/SSD) rather than the limited capacity storage unit that comes in the laptop?

Not sure why you say this. Laptops today pretty much rival desktop PCs. Something like a Dell XPS 17 has a 17" monitor with 1900x1200 and you can pop in a 4tb SSD for about $120. LGs Gram 17Z90N has a native resolution of 2560 x 1600. And if you want to splurge a bit more, the Dell XPS 13 9310 offers a 4k display with a native resolution of 3840 x 2400 and a touch panel to boot. Or for a blazing fast 4k laptop the Alienware X17 has a 4k 17" display, 2tb storage and either a I7 or i9 processor. There are many options out there. Like photography, budget is the key. What are you willing to spend.

How big are the bricks (AC adapters) of these big and capable laptops?

gjl711 wrote in post #19493024
Not sure why you say this. Laptops today pretty much rival desktop PCs. Something like a Dell XPS 17 has a 17" monitor with 1900x1200 and you can pop in a 4tb SSD for about $120. LGs Gram 17Z90N has a native resolution of 2560 x 1600. And if you want to splurge a bit more, the Dell XPS 13 9310 offers a 4k display with a native resolution of 3840 x 2400 and a touch panel to boot. Or for a blazing fast 4k laptop the Alienware X17 has a 4k 17" display, 2tb storage and either a I7 or i9 processor. There are many options out there. Like photography, budget is the key. What are you willing to spend.

You point out some capable laptops with regard to screen resolution; they do exist.
But the vast majority of 'affordable' laptops marketed to consumers in the ads we see are much more modest in resolution... what is the budget of the OP? It is a possibility, but does it fit the budget? A high res desktop screen carries a smaller price premium than the high res laptop screen, and the external monitor use with a laptop can offer the dual-screen user interface that so many photo editors prefer to use.

I have a 27" 2560x1440 monitor for my desktop...and I can just barely read the standard size text that is displayed by Windows. OP needs to understand that one would need to set Windows display to 160% text size to replicate the readability of my 27" monitor with a 17" 2560x1440 monitor or 169% with a 16" monitor. The 4K monitor would need to have text display magnification by Windows of 240% and 250%, respectively, for those same size laptop displays to be readable.

'Yes, you can' vs 'would you really want to' needs to be understood before the outlay of money and maybe regretting the wrong decision. OP needs to see the unit in action on the store shelf, not simply buy based upon web specs.