Laptop specs - upgrade????
Posted 03/07/2023 - 15:49 - Helpful Comment
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Good for you. If it works for you and you're satisfied then what more can you ask?
Enjoy it.
Enjoy it.
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(Compulsive Obsessive Lens Buying Addiction Syndrome)
What you need are lenses, more lenses, bigger lenses, better lenses, faster lenses, vintage lenses and when you have these, your pictures will be perfect!
(Compulsive Obsessive Lens Buying Addiction Syndrome)
What you need are lenses, more lenses, bigger lenses, better lenses, faster lenses, vintage lenses and when you have these, your pictures will be perfect!
Posted 03/07/2023 - 18:19 - Helpful Comment
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Very good find. That looks like a beautiful deal.
All the gear with no idea
Posted 03/07/2023 - 21:27
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HarisF1 wrote:
Very good find. That looks like a beautiful deal.
Ta. You're the guilty one as you sold my first proper Pentax a good few years ago
Very good find. That looks like a beautiful deal.
Grumpy GrandPa, Recently Retired.
Gotta K-3iii now, had a K-S2, K50 and so suffering from a relapse and so buying digital camera kit.
Previous addiction has resulted in using Zeniths, Yashicamat, Chinons, Minoltas, Samsungs, Fujis, Cosina, Kodak, Lumix, Canon, Nikon and Pentax etc etc - have tried most makes in the past 50 years. Love cameras - love taking photos even more
Gotta K-3iii now, had a K-S2, K50 and so suffering from a relapse and so buying digital camera kit.
Previous addiction has resulted in using Zeniths, Yashicamat, Chinons, Minoltas, Samsungs, Fujis, Cosina, Kodak, Lumix, Canon, Nikon and Pentax etc etc - have tried most makes in the past 50 years. Love cameras - love taking photos even more
Posted 04/07/2023 - 09:54
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HarisF1 wrote:
Very good find. That looks like a beautiful deal.
TYPO - should have read = Ta. You're the guilty one as you sold to me my first proper Pentax a good few years ago (and for that I am very greatful as it's been a great journey so far!)
Very good find. That looks like a beautiful deal.
Grumpy GrandPa, Recently Retired.
Gotta K-3iii now, had a K-S2, K50 and so suffering from a relapse and so buying digital camera kit.
Previous addiction has resulted in using Zeniths, Yashicamat, Chinons, Minoltas, Samsungs, Fujis, Cosina, Kodak, Lumix, Canon, Nikon and Pentax etc etc - have tried most makes in the past 50 years. Love cameras - love taking photos even more
Gotta K-3iii now, had a K-S2, K50 and so suffering from a relapse and so buying digital camera kit.
Previous addiction has resulted in using Zeniths, Yashicamat, Chinons, Minoltas, Samsungs, Fujis, Cosina, Kodak, Lumix, Canon, Nikon and Pentax etc etc - have tried most makes in the past 50 years. Love cameras - love taking photos even more
Posted 05/07/2023 - 14:13
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Wow. it's now taking about 10 sec to process a RAW file in Dx0PureRaw2
Grumpy GrandPa, Recently Retired.
Gotta K-3iii now, had a K-S2, K50 and so suffering from a relapse and so buying digital camera kit.
Previous addiction has resulted in using Zeniths, Yashicamat, Chinons, Minoltas, Samsungs, Fujis, Cosina, Kodak, Lumix, Canon, Nikon and Pentax etc etc - have tried most makes in the past 50 years. Love cameras - love taking photos even more
Gotta K-3iii now, had a K-S2, K50 and so suffering from a relapse and so buying digital camera kit.
Previous addiction has resulted in using Zeniths, Yashicamat, Chinons, Minoltas, Samsungs, Fujis, Cosina, Kodak, Lumix, Canon, Nikon and Pentax etc etc - have tried most makes in the past 50 years. Love cameras - love taking photos even more
Posted 05/07/2023 - 19:00
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GrumpyGrandPa wrote:
Thanks too all who replied and helped
I have now got a LENOVO IdeaPad 5 Pro 16" Laptop - AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition Processor - 1TB SSD - Grey - Windows 11 Home (64-bit) REFURB-C £630 Curry's ebay with a year guarantee. It's a grade C becuase of a scratch on the lid!
16 GB LPDDR5 (6400 MHz)
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 - 4 GB GDDR6
AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition Processor
Octa-core - 3.2 GHz / 4.7 GHz - 4 MB L2 / 16 MB L3 cache
1 TB SSD
16” screen: 2.5K 2560 x 1600p
It's so chuffin fast that the mouse hovers over summat and opens it up if i am not carefyl.
As for PureRaw2 and PS etc - it's brilliant.
So, thanks all. Now to edit/process some more photos (rapidly)
It may not be the best BUT it's too fast for me at the moment......
I bought exactly the same laptop apart from it has an Intel i5-12500H chip and a Nvidia 3050TiThanks too all who replied and helped
I have now got a LENOVO IdeaPad 5 Pro 16" Laptop - AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition Processor - 1TB SSD - Grey - Windows 11 Home (64-bit) REFURB-C £630 Curry's ebay with a year guarantee. It's a grade C becuase of a scratch on the lid!
16 GB LPDDR5 (6400 MHz)
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 - 4 GB GDDR6
AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition Processor
Octa-core - 3.2 GHz / 4.7 GHz - 4 MB L2 / 16 MB L3 cache
1 TB SSD
16” screen: 2.5K 2560 x 1600p
It's so chuffin fast that the mouse hovers over summat and opens it up if i am not carefyl.
As for PureRaw2 and PS etc - it's brilliant.
So, thanks all. Now to edit/process some more photos (rapidly)
It may not be the best BUT it's too fast for me at the moment......
£633 brand new on Amazon (plus I had a £130 coupon from a previous lens offe to get rid of)
Speedy laptop, very happy with it.
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PRSJNB: Yes please, I would be interested in the full specs of your current machine.
The Ryzen CPU is an upper-mid range unit. The Quadro P2000, purchased secondhand, is a professional GPU dating from 2017 which supports 10-bit colour displays. It has the advantage of being a single slot card which draws its power exclusively from the PCI-E socket. The nearest gaming equivalent of similar vintage is the NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1060 6 GB, however this is a dual-slot slot solution that requires additional power connectors as its power draw exceeds the maximum available from the PCI-E socket.
A typical 31 GB RAW from the K-3 Mark III takes 19 sec to process using the Deep Prime option with global sharpening and automatic lens correction selected with the GPU option enabled. Without the GPU option selected, processing takes 46 sec, during which time the CPU is running at 100%. Because of this, multi-tasking whilst the file is being processed in the background is not really a viable option. By contrast, CPU utilisation when the GPU option is selected rarely exceeds 5 - 10%, allowing other programmes to be used without issue.
If you do decide to go ahead with an upgrade, which from what I've read may no longer be the case, from the perspective of DxO Pure Raw it is better to invest more in the GPU than the CPU.
Looking at ebay this w/e revealed that suitably specced refurbished machines with a 1 year guarantee are available within your budget of £500.00.
Best wishes
Jon
I have now got a LENOVO IdeaPad 5 Pro 16" Laptop - AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition Processor - 1TB SSD - Grey - Windows 11 Home (64-bit) REFURB-C £630 Curry's ebay with a year guarantee. It's a grade C becuase of a scratch on the lid!
16 GB LPDDR5 (6400 MHz)
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 - 4 GB GDDR6
AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition Processor
Octa-core - 3.2 GHz / 4.7 GHz - 4 MB L2 / 16 MB L3 cache
1 TB SSD
16” screen: 2.5K 2560 x 1600p
It's so chuffin fast that the mouse hovers over summat and opens it up if i am not carefyl.
As for PureRaw2 and PS etc - it's brilliant.
So, thanks all. Now to edit/process some more photos (rapidly)
It may not be the best BUT it's too fast for me at the moment......
Gotta K-3iii now, had a K-S2, K50 and so suffering from a relapse and so buying digital camera kit.
Previous addiction has resulted in using Zeniths, Yashicamat, Chinons, Minoltas, Samsungs, Fujis, Cosina, Kodak, Lumix, Canon, Nikon and Pentax etc etc - have tried most makes in the past 50 years. Love cameras - love taking photos even more