You may have got some more targeted advice if you had put that at the beginning. From what you have said virtually anything new will be ok as long as the hard drive is big enough.
Just to contrast this I have 3TB of images , not including video, so the statement of 250GB is more than enough is a very personal observation. Also one of the most important components for photo editing is the display. Mine are all colour calibrated too.
The boot-up time is dependent upon much more than just doing so from an SSD and can be seriously affected when M$ demand that they 'phone home' and upgrade the O/S which can take many minutes. The best I've achieved for a bare Win 10 Pro is 14 seconds.
Avoiding AMD and picking Intel i current market would be a huge mistake in the current market
Picking Intel over AMD would generally be a huge mistake in the current market ! Also unless he's doing something that is hugely CPU intensive most modern CPUs would be more than enough
If this is the case the OP wouldn't have a choice but if he has then I recommend Intel.
yes indeed -my post was just a short comment without meat on the bone.
We need to be careful of steering someone who may have very basic requirements down the path of a high end spec. Your needs and that of several others are very specific. My point is future proofing as much as possible within a budget, and that includes dual band WiFi.
Yes an SSD for the boot drive really helps, I use a WD blue 500Gb for the OS and programs but use normal hard drive for everything else. It is important to also have some means to backup your work files, always keep master copies safe and not on the Pc, these days USB pen drives are one good option but store them in a safe place! The SSD drives are no longer in the high price category, a 250Gb WD blue is now just £35 and the 500Gb WD blue £50 but there are several interfaces which will affect the Data speed.
We have a 2009 27" iMac which is still going strong but it will not permit anymore OS X updates past Yosemite which is frustrating when there is a current program that wants an update. I can't justify the outlay on a new Mac but a good secondhand one sounds attractive. Where should I look to find one in pristine condition?
Just one very good reason to avoid the Apple platform.
That might have been the correct stance a few years ago but with the advent of the Ryzen range it certainly isn't. - though I have been using and recommending AMD over Intel for 25+ years - purely on value for money terms.
Hello: read your thread (message) and decided to give you my side of the same story; I went ahead and purchased a DELL all-in-one with a 20" touch screen, has a R/W dvd player and a huge capacity hard drive, I requested the unit with Win 7Pro, 64bit rather than the usual Win10 installed, (my preferance) it also came with MS Office and a few other program I don't use, "I'm very private" I don't face, moon, give out instant grams of anything, basically an old-timer with a PC; i've taken the liberty of being presumptuous and also assumed you are (more or less) in my category; the all-in-one unit are great for some people; however, they need to be plugged up (electrical), the touch screen is OK but it's very sensitive and if your hand or fingers get too close to the screen, it reacts, since it needs to be plugged up, it also means you'll need to consider where you'll be using it, preferably a permanent location like a nice solid table where you can open up a notebook to take notes; I like my unit but it is NOT a laptop, which you can take with you; (I've never understood why people would take their laptop to beaches or camping); hope my 2 pence feedback can help.
As a NON-EXPERT and while shopping I asked my self why are all the "CHROMEBOOKS and Chrome platform" units so much cheaper than comparable Windows platform PC's and notebooks.
It's all Google......what they want is data, data, data - where you go, what you look at, how much you spend, what you buy - etc, etc, etc - they are as bad as, if not worse than facebook, amazon et al
