I think I've talked myself out of 4K on the laptop screen - I don't think I'd really be able to take advantage of it with the small screen size. And as many of you have mentioned- I could put the difference towards a nice 4k or 5k monitor, color calibrate it, and then have a nice editing setup.
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Originally Posted by P1et
Before you upgrade to a new laptop, have you considered at least just wiping your laptop, throwing in an SSD and seeing if that improves performance? Then look at buying a nice external 4K or 5K monitor?
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I started there as a first step, but I don't think it'd really be cost effective. I already have an SSD, so it'd be another $100+ to add more SSD storage. Then this machine is limited to 8GB of RAM, so it would help a bit for another $100ish. Basically, I figured that $200 into a 5-yr old machine would be a very temporary band-aid, and just springing for a new laptop was a better investment.