I want to start doing web design (photoshop, figma) and I can't decide on a laptop. Which to choose?

Question

laptops

There are two candidates: acer nitro 5 and lenovo ideapad. I chose the first one myself, and the consultant in the store insisted on the second. He tried very hard to convince me that it is better to take Lenovo and not overpay for the brand.
Is it so? Which of these two would you recommend? Or maybe you can tell me some other laptop (budget 20k hryvnia / 50k rubles / $ 700)?
Thanks in advance for your reply!

(and please don’t say that the laptop is not suitable for this. I don’t have the opportunity to assemble a PC T.T. )

Answer 1

If you listen to everything, necessarily super sRGB coverage, necessarily stationary, necessarily some other crap, you simply won’t start doing graphics, because the budget will fly into space, the only criterion for me is the display, you need an IPS display (you chose it along the way) , because a cheap TN display stupidly changes colors when you turn it, and IPS does not, from which side you look. The second critical criterion is the reliability of the laptop, subjectively, Acer is all kind of flimsy, but I last talked about 10 years ago. 8 gigabytes of RAM may not be enough, but it is quite possible to buy it in addition as soon as it is no longer enough.
For visuals, 256 gigabytes of SSD is not enough, but it is solved by an external HDD pocket, not as convenient as a one terabyte SSD, but much cheaper and you can buy it only when there is no more space.
Subjectively, the Lenovo brand is much better than Acer
. And yet, you can work on any device, the requirements for the device will grow as the salary grows.

Answer 2

For starters, a good note. The ips matrix is ​​​​very cool. Now the same figma consumes much less resources than if you work purely on Photoshop. If there is not enough, then the salary will allow for an upgrade. In due course it is possible to take still monik and it will be excellent. I myself started from a laptop with a regular matrix, a celeron processor and 4GB of RAM .. I could not even dream of an ssd.

Answer 3

Better take a used, but more developed laptop, and not something from the store so as not to overpay for a new thing. Moreover, the stores are often consumer goods, and something really needed is usually made to order.
For real work, it will be important for you to pay attention first of all to the monitor. This is, of course, an IPS matrix, color gamut (100% sRGB or AdobeRGB is certainly good, but it’s not very important for web design), good contrast, sufficient resolution (FullHD or higher). Diagonally, you will rest at a maximum of 17", and rather even at 15". Very important - color calibration. Better look for a master with a spectrophotometer, if not, look at "home" calibrators like SpyderX.
If you plan to work with Photoshop and relatively large layouts, then you need as much memory as you can cram (32 if possible, or more) + a fast SSD (better than NVMe, although not essential). Photoshop loves memory very much.
Figma is less demanding, but more memory has never hurt :) it has a separate memory, but this becomes important only for fairly large layouts in Photoshop.
In order to fit into the budget in such a situation, it is optimal to look at options for used laptops that have free memory slots and have the ability to replace the disk. If you take such a model in a minimal configuration, then you can stretch it yourself by adding memory and replacing / adding disks.

Answer 4

Choose to have 100% sRGB, as much RAM as possible, as large an SSD as possible.
Both sounded laptops have very low sRGB coverage, they are not suitable for graphics.
Most likely, a laptop with the inscription game will have a useless screen, so you can not immediately look at pseudo game models.
For the price of a laptop, you can always build a better desktop PC.
On a 15-inch screen, you are in for some suffering when working with graphics