mosschop Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 Hi, On a really tight budget, so I'm wondering if I can get away with a HP laptop with 8gb RAM to run sufficiently for some fairly basic projects ? These are high-res scanned artwork files which are to have text added/overlaid to them, some formatting, splicing, etc. Any suggestions appreciated as this kind of work is new to me. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 Affinity apps will work with any PC above minimum spec. But working on insufficient hardware will be slow, painfully slow. So it totally depends on your personal ability to tolerate bad performance. My son use a cheap 2018 Lenovo Laptop. My 2018 iPad Pro is 10x faster, but he get all jobs done. My 2020 iPad and MacMini are again much faster, but if you can wait just a bit longer there is no issue to use old or low-spec PCs. Alfred 1 Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mosschop Posted February 13 Author Share Posted February 13 1 minute ago, NotMyFault said: Affinity apps will work with any PC above minimum spec. But working on insufficient hardware will be slow, painfully slow. So it totally depends on your personal ability to tolerate bad performance. My son use a cheap 2018 Lenovo Laptop. My 2018 iPad Pro is 10x faster, but he get all jobs done. My 2020 iPad and MacMini are again much faster, but if you can wait just a bit longer there is no issue to use old or low-spec PCs. That's what I was hoping to hear - Thanks very much ! Hopefully it will be manageable, but that it works is my main concern. I'm not comfortable taking a risk on a refurb with better performance, and maybe upgrade down the line. Appreciate the reply, thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 3 hours ago, mosschop said: HP laptop with 8gb RAM Forget those 8 GB RAM, especially if it's a laptop where you can't exchange the RAM yourself as it's maybe glued unchangable inside. Nowadays 16 GB RAM is the bare minimum and I even would better use 32 GB at least here. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 For a laptop without a dedicated graphics card, please note that the iGPU uses up to 2 GB of RAM. This leaves only 6 GB for Windows, programs and data on a laptop with 8 GB. MS Windows consumes approx. 1.2 to 1.5 GB and more (without open programs in the background). That doesn't leave much for applications and data. I myself have an 8 GB laptop with APU (iGPU). Opening even MS Office applications and working with them is a test of patience. Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3085) AMD A10-9600P | dGPU R7 M340 (2 GB) | 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | Windows 10 Home 22H2 (1945.3803) Affinity Suite V 2.3.1 & Beta 2.(latest) Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator Need a system wide color picker? Try Microsoft's (New) Power Toys Need a robust PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF There's nothing you get used to faster than working slowly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mosschop Posted February 14 Author Share Posted February 14 Thanks for the further replies and information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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