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Hi!
I recently bought Affinity Publisher.
I am currently working on a photo yearbook as an first project.
I am currently on page 72 and have already processed about 200 photos.
"Affinity Publisher" is still working, but adding new pages on my i5-7200 8GB RAM-Laptop is now very slow and tedious.
I am now thinking about buying a desktop PC again and wondering, what a good system would be for similar future projects.
I don't need a high end system, just something that works well for Affinity Publisher without getting any performance issues.

Any Tipps?

Edited by HerrJeh
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11 minutes ago, HerrJeh said:

I am currently on page 72 and have already processed about 200 photos.

Before you spend your money: Are the photos linked or embedded? If embedded, I would make them linked instead. As a file format I would prefer TIFF over PSD.

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Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed

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On a typical laptop PC it can also be disk speed, as with actual disks (vs SSDs) they're usually slow models, at about 5400 RPMs. I eventually got tired of waiting for the disk on my laptop and swapped out the disk for an SSD and it made a great improvement.

But yes, more memory might help, and if your laptop is not maxed out you can probably install it yourself.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
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    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
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I‘ve got a ssd installed (it‘s a surface pro 2017 with 256GB) and after a longer waiting time it is used as „virtual memory“. But placing new content nevertheless isnt drag and drop. it is more like drag and wait 10 to 15 seconds and drop. ;) 

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Which systems do more professional users use?
Maybe that's the better question ...

or „Do other users have the same issues like me?“

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