New Laptop Advice - Please

[GL1Blue]

I am not against a SSD Drive, far from it, they are great, BUT ( and this has happened to me when i have supplied PC's ) when people talk of " Far quicker " and " it takes a lot longer to find what you're looking for with a non SSD Drive " then that leave the end user expecting the world, in reality, in real world terms, it doesnt make that much of a difference if you are not doing anything to specialist ( your average PC users )

I disagree, they are most certainly a lot quicker than a spinning hard drive and a lot quicker to read/write files....something everyone does whether they realise it or not!

Whenever anyone asks me about buying a new laptop most of the time I'd suggest not to and install an SSD.

[Duggie]

As the OP has said that he intends doing photo editing with large files, an SSD is going to make a significant difference to this. I have a few different laptops (work and home) and now only use those with SSDs for work on large image files. When you are working on files over 20Mb (for example as lots of image files are if you are setting them up for printing) in size there is a big difference when you are loading/saving/moving these files in an SSD. Just my opinion based on my experience.