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Best Laptop for Instructional Designers
Hello! Does anyone have advice or guidelines for selecting the best laptops that meet the performance requirements for eLearning creation? Or possibly a r...
Hello,
My laptop at work is a Lenovo ThinkBook 14 G3 ACL. It has an AMD Ryzen 7 5700U processor rated at 1.8 GHz, 24 GB of RAM, and a 500 GB HDD. The graphics processor is integrated. I do not experience any lag, even with multiple Storyline projects open. My laptop at home, which I also use for work, is an MSI GF65 with an Intel Core i7-10750 6 Core processor rated at 2.6 GHz. It has 32 GB of RAM, a 512 GB SSD, and NVIDIA GPU. I experience no lag with it, either. I use both laptops with dual screens connected by HDMI. The MSI laptop, although equipped with 2 USB C ports, requires the Docking station to be connected via one of the USB 3.0 ports, while the Docking station connected to the ThinkBook utilizes the USB C port. I hope that helps!
Thanks,
Phil
Hi Phil, this information is wonderful! Thank you for taking the time to share, I will look into these suggestions!
You're welcome Raeven! I should also mention both these laptops are pretty reasonably priced. The AMD Ryzen 7 processor (8 core) scores higher on the benchmark tests than the Intel Core i7-10750 (6 core), but they both seem to work reasonably well. I've been told, regarding the ability to handle program loads easily, faster CPUs mean more than RAM, and an integrated GPU will handle most of the tasks we regularly perform. Take Care!
