photo editing laptops

use the laptop you have with you

>laptops, price range: <$800, high to low, kill yourself

>>3128394
practically any laptop is good for photo editing as long as it isn't shitted up with garbage. photo editing isn't that demanding.
if you want to play games, build a PC. there's no point to buy a laptop for that.
personal recommendation: used thinkpad t420 + a good SSD, throw in for an external hard drive on top of that if you store a lot of photos

>>3128394
>>3128438

OP ignore this.

Be very fucking careful and be as mindful of the display as of the actual specs. I do plenty photo and video work, and part of my new job was on the move. I got a G551 Asus ROG, as I wanted to game on it too. The screen is abysmal and makes it useless for any kind of color adjustment.

tl;dr, mind specs but also go to notebook check and read the display section

>>3128566
display can always be calibrated and most non-shit/relatively popular laptops have calibration guides. some monitors, like in your case, just don't calibrate well. I suggested a T420 because you can actually replace the panels.
specs wise, only inferior thing you'd get is a GPU (well, the lack of one) too bad you won't be needing one

you're better off making a tiny microatx pc/buy a dock and set up an egpu (go to /g/oogle for all of that) if you want to play games

>>3128566
>>3128568
Thank you! This helps a lot

Seconding make sure you get something with a good display, of course you can always calibrate the display, but that won't help you if it has a super narrow viewing angle or is missing ten percent of SRGB. On a different note, what is the limiting factor in your macbook pro? could you just toss some more ram in it and build an actual computer for the games?

>>3128394
My 2013 MBA still rips through CC. what do you have on your system?