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• ability to display all of the sRGB gamut and most of the Adobe RGB gamut is important for critical work

• if you don't mind giving up battery life, then, consider a 4K display rather than Full HD (1920×1080), especially if you are going for a 13“ or larger screen

• this could be very useful for:
  • fine editing with a pen, etc
  • flicking through your image gallery especially if you can use it as a tablet

• 256Gb should be a bare minimum
• 512Gb is better
• 1Gb even better but is very expensive and may be overkill, especially these days when we can use a fast USB 3.0 or 3.1 external drive

• aim for a 7th generation quad core Intel i7 or perhaps i5 if you can't afford the i7 (quad core i5 will beat a dual core i7)
  • the HQ suffix is quad core and although better performance, it runs at 45W not 15W so eats up the battery faster
• aim for minimum of 8Gb RAM

• in 2017, an example would be the NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050 with 4GB GDDR5

• SD card reader preferable (otherwise need a external USB 3 card reader which is a nuisance)
• at least one USB 3.0 port (preferably 2, especially if you need to use one to connect to a network adapter if there is no ethernet port and no WiFi available)
• USB 3.1 Thunderbolt port for even faster and more future proof capabilities
• HDMI

• Dell XPS 15 with 4K Ultra HD touch screen
  • 100% Adobe gamut; IGZO IPS panel; 350 nit brightness;
  • Included is Dell PremierColor software, which automatically remaps content not already in Adobe RGB format for onscreen colors that appear amazingly accurate and true to life
  • 7th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-7700HQ Quad Core Processor (6M cache, up to 3.8 GHz)
  • 16GB DDR4-2400MHz; up to 32GB
  • 512GB PCIe Solid State Drive
  • NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050 with 4GB GDDR5
  • 15.6” 4K Ultra HD (3840 x 2160) InfinityEdge touch display with Edge-to-edge Corning® Gorilla® Glass NBT™
  • SD card slot
  • HDMI
  • 2 USB 3.0 slots with PowerShare
  • 1 Thunderbolt™ 3 (2 lanes of PCI Express Gen 3) Supports: Power In / Charging, PowerShare, Thunderbolt 3 (40Gbps Bi-Directional), 3.1 USB Gen 2 (10Gbps), VGA, HDMI, Ethernet and USB-A via Dell Adapter (Sold Separately)
  • Killer 1535 802.11ac 2×2 WiFi and Bluetooth
  • 2kg with 97Whr battery, SSD and touch display
  • $AU2634 including Dell's cash discount
• Dell XPS 13" 2-in-1 QHD touch screen tablet
  • for the same price as the Dell XPS 15 you can get a smaller, lighter 1.2kg 13“ laptop but with foldable screen that allows it to function as a heavy tablet BUT you do lose a few important features:
    • only 72% Adobe gamut not 100%; contrast ratio of 1000:1; IGZO IPS panel;
    • screen size is smaller and lower resolution at 3200×1800
    • microSD card reader not a SD card so you will need an external USB 3 card reader
    • different CPU: Intel i7-7Y75
    • no ability to increase RAM past the 16Gb, nor increase SSD to 1TB
    • Intel® HD Graphics 615 card instead of NVidia card
    • no USB 3.0 port - but you do get a Thunderbolt 3 USB type C and a USB 3.1 port
    • half sized battery - only 46WHr and AC charger is only 30W
    • and a few other features are downgraded (eg. no Killer Wireless), so not ideal, but if the tablet option or size and weight is important, then this may be a reasonable choice
• ASUS ZenBook Pro UX510-4K
  • similar to Dell XPS 15
  • covers 100 percent of the sRGB gamut
  • Eye Care mode, that reduces harmful blue light by up to 30 percent but turn this off when editing color images!
  • backlit keyboard

• The Razer Blade
  • 14” FHD screen only but lots of power
• Lenovo Yoga 910 Silver 4K 14" 2-in-1
  • 7th Gen Intel Core i7-7500U Processor (4 MB Cache, 2.7 GHz); Intel HD Graphics 620;
  • 512Gb SSD; 16Gb RAM
  • 13.9“UHD IPS Multi-touch 3840×2160
  • 2 x USB 3.0 (1 x Type-C with video-out, 1 x Type-A), 1 x USB 2.0
  • NOT recommended - no SD card reader, no USB 3.1/Thunderbolt, not quad core CPU
  • $AU2779
• Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga Gen 2 with 4G
  • very expensive, only Intel Core i7-7600U Processor and no SD card and not 4K but at least has:
    • 14” WQHD (2560×1440), IPS, 10-point Multi-Touch screen
    • 2 x Intel Thunderbolt 3 + 3 x USB 3.0 + HDMI + microSD + 4G microSIM
    • $AU3899
• see also: https://www.photoworkout.com/best-laptop-photo-editing/