17 inch notebook recommendation for editing and presentation

Hi!

I need a 17 windows laptop which I would like to use for client presentations (wedding photography) and editing.

Until recently, I had a 17 macbook pro but I would like to move away from mac.

I wild like to have something presentable. I don't really want to have a gaming laptop because it is just too futuristic looking. I liked the clean look of my old macbook pro.

Do you have anything you can recommend?

Thanks!

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ic-racer said:

The best way to show you are printing on silver paper is to show them actual prints.

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or maybe one of these:

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I had a Dell 17R SE, nice i7, lots of memory, good video card, 1080 screen. Heavy. And, the power connector on the motherboard had no strain relief so it failed after a year of light use. Now, I have a nice little 15" Toshiba with a 1080 screen. The only real downside to it is that it's a glossy touchscreen. Lousy for editing photos.

Toshiba branded labtop. It is the only brand I go with. As the three units I have had all lasted 4+ years. The look is mainly just a standard black labtop nothing over the top. The display on them is really nice and bright.

May I ask what made you wanna move away from the Mac?

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Malinku said:

Toshiba branded labtop. It is the only brand I go with. As the three units I have had all lasted 4+ years. The look is mainly just a standard black labtop nothing over the top. The display on them is really nice and bright.

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I hate mines display.
Both tecra and satellite have horrible colours for me.

Before changing to Mac, I had a 15" Sony VAIO - was outstanding!

Sadly the chassis got warped in an auto accident I had whilst on a shoot in Japan. Was a great laptop, even though I'd only had it 6 mths. Fully specced at the time, cost me around $1500.

Nice silver colour and looked streamlined like the Macbook - guess it's the WIN version of Mac.

I've been happy with a string of Vaios over the past several years.

For pure presentation purposes nothing beats a tablet imo it's the closest thing to a digital portofolio you can get, the bride and groom can leaf trough the Images (book like) and it is just a much more intimate form of presentation than a Notebook with its big Keyboard and other paraphernilia. You don't have to buy the most expensive tablet either a cheap one is good enough for most presentation purposes.

For editing I agree with Malinkus Toshibas are great and are often underappreciated the only drawback I can think of is the battery life, on the good side they are often less expensive than their competitors and very well constructed.

I'll have to echo the tablet suggestion. The interface of flipping through photos is intuitive for nearly everyone. They can pinch and zoom. It's basically a fancy photo frame. I'm not sure you need the latest and greatest either. I think for the time being we have to accomodate the fact that most people are never going to see an image at more than 1000x pixels because most images get posted to Facebook or Instagram. So some presentation that mirrors that arrangement is going to seem most comfortable to the majority. That doesn't stop you from delivering high quality prints for display in the client's home.

I've been keeping my eyes on the new Thinkpad P50 (15") and P70 (17") "mobile workstations":

https://www.thinkworkstations.com/products/p70/

I'd opt for the 4K IPS display with Pantone calibrator. But I might not bother with upgrading beyond the base nVidia Quadro video card, think Quadro is optimized for CAD-type applications, and I doubt that any upgrades here will make a meaningful improvement for photo work. Expect it to be heavy and for battery life to be pretty minimal. Pricing? Don't know, it doesn't seem to be shipping yet, don't know of another notebook using Mobile Xeon processors.

In terms of display resolution, I dunno that 4K will give you an extra edge when it comes to presentations on such a small screen, but good color fidelity will.

Also, Hewlett-Packard offers a Dreamcolor display option on some of their Elitebooks. But IMO they must not want to sell them because they make it kind of tricky and expensive to get that option.

One thing about Apple: Most of their current devices seem to have at least decent color, and they put some effort into consistency across product lines. So if your presentation looks good on an iMac, it'll probably also look good on an iPhone.

Current versions of Windows suck, although I don't own an Apple, I would this it is better.