This September I'll be heading up to university and will be wanting to take a laptop up with me for obvious reasons. At the moment I'm using a Samsung Q320 which is about 3 1/2 years old so it's getting a little on the slow side having been used quite heavily!
So I'm looking at my options for a new laptop but I'm not sure exactly what I'm looking for. I'd be using it for all the standard things (Facebook, word processing etc) as well as a lot of photo storing, transferring and editing (using photoshop elements) and also storing a substantial amount of music. Quite often I have iTunes, photoshop and my Internet browser open at the same time so it'd need to be able to run those 3 smoothly at once.
Budget wise I don't want to be spending thousands, but if necessary I'm prepared to fork out a decent amount if it'll really be worth it.
One extra thing which is complicating everything a little is that I have owned an iPhone for a little while and have recently been given an iPad, bringing the idea of a MacBook to mind to link them all together nicely. I have always used windows PCs up to now, though.
That's about everything I think, so any advice as to what specifications I should be looking for or any particular models to look at would be very much appreciated. Cheers.
So I'm looking at my options for a new laptop but I'm not sure exactly what I'm looking for. I'd be using it for all the standard things (Facebook, word processing etc) as well as a lot of photo storing, transferring and editing (using photoshop elements) and also storing a substantial amount of music. Quite often I have iTunes, photoshop and my Internet browser open at the same time so it'd need to be able to run those 3 smoothly at once.
Budget wise I don't want to be spending thousands, but if necessary I'm prepared to fork out a decent amount if it'll really be worth it.
One extra thing which is complicating everything a little is that I have owned an iPhone for a little while and have recently been given an iPad, bringing the idea of a MacBook to mind to link them all together nicely. I have always used windows PCs up to now, though.
That's about everything I think, so any advice as to what specifications I should be looking for or any particular models to look at would be very much appreciated. Cheers.
