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Title: Any 16 or 17 inch laptop great for photo editing wit long 5-7 hour battery life?
Post by: haring on March 13, 2023, 07:30:06 pm

Is there any 16 or 17 inch laptop great for photo editing and long 5-7 hour battery life? Does something like this exist?

Title: Re: Any 16 or 17 inch laptop great for photo editing wit long 5-7 hour battery life?
Post by: digitaldog on March 13, 2023, 07:36:41 pm

16” Macbook Pro.
https://www.xda-developers.com/does-macbook-pro-2023-good-battery-life/
Mine with 64GB RAM is super fast too.

Title: Re: Any 16 or 17 inch laptop great for photo editing wit long 5-7 hour battery life?
Post by: haring on March 13, 2023, 08:23:28 pm

Quote from: digitaldog on March 13, 2023, 07:36:41 pm

16” Macbook Pro.
https://www.xda-developers.com/does-macbook-pro-2023-good-battery-life/
Mine with 64GB RAM is super fast too.

Thanks so much! Any pc notebook?

Title: Re: Any 16 or 17 inch laptop great for photo editing wit long 5-7 hour battery life?
Post by: digitaldog on March 13, 2023, 08:24:59 pm

Quote from: haring on March 13, 2023, 08:23:28 pm

Any pc notebook?

No idea. I don't do Windows.

Title: Re: Any 16 or 17 inch laptop great for photo editing wit long 5-7 hour battery life?
Post by: langier on March 13, 2023, 08:53:11 pm

Seems to me that Apple has redone Bootcamp for the M1 & M2 MacBooks so people can graft Windows and use compatible programs. Not sure how the emulation works or what it would do to the battery life. It just may be that the best 16-inch PC laptop could be the MBP-16.

Title: Re: Any 16 or 17 inch laptop great for photo editing wit long 5-7 hour battery life?
Post by: CoyoteButtes on March 30, 2023, 06:40:19 am

Have to add my agreement about the 16" MacBook Pro.

Title: Re: Any 16 or 17 inch laptop great for photo editing wit long 5-7 hour battery life?
Post by: Chris Kern on March 30, 2023, 02:00:17 pm

Quote from: langier on March 13, 2023, 08:53:11 pm

Seems to me that Apple has redone Bootcamp for the M1 & M2 MacBooks so people can graft Windows and use compatible programs. Not sure how the emulation works. . . .

It's not emulation.  Apple's Boot Camp is a "boot manager" — i.e., it allows you to install Microsoft Windows as a native operating system along with MacOS and to choose which operating system you want to start up.  I have not read anything authoritative regarding the extent to which Windows can take advantage of the hardware resources of the new Apple processor architecture.  (Not completely, I suspect.)

Title: Re: Any 16 or 17 inch laptop great for photo editing wit long 5-7 hour battery life?
Post by: Chris Kern on March 30, 2023, 05:59:09 pm

Quote from: Chris Kern on March 30, 2023, 02:00:17 pm

I have not read anything authoritative regarding the extent to which Windows can take advantage of the hardware resources of the new Apple processor architecture.  (Not completely, I suspect.)

Not at all, it turns out.  You would need to use an Apple computer that uses the Intel architecture.

Title: Re: Any 16 or 17 inch laptop great for photo editing wit long 5-7 hour battery life?
Post by: jrp on April 01, 2023, 04:53:07 pm

There are versions of windows that run on Arm processors but if you have a Mac and want to process pics there’s not much point in doing other than running native apps on it, where they are available, which in the case of raw processing apps, they are.

Title: Re: Any 16 or 17 inch laptop great for photo editing wit long 5-7 hour battery life?
Post by: andyptak on April 09, 2023, 01:45:14 pm

I have an Asus ProArt 16" and love it. OLED screen and workstation grade specs and speed.