Laptop cheap...?

Hi all! I have a desktop iMac where I do all my graphics (using the software Creative Cloud). Recently, I found that it would be useful to have a laptop. But... I can't justify the expense of a new cell phone from Apple. So I thought I'd do a Windows laptop at low cost. But... After looking at the requirements for Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator (all different), I'm totally confused now. I just talked to Dell support and they recommended laptops running i3 processors. Well, these are all of the thousands of dollars. I was hoping to buy something at CostCo for less $500. Am I completely unreasonable? I don't mind if it's slow. I will most of my work on this. I just need to work in order to get out once a while and do not let customers in the lurch. Has anyone bought a cheap laptop that works pretty well? Or am I completely unreasonable in this regard?

Thank you!

Julie

the pentium or celeron cpu you are the list would be very slow, basically only good for browsing the web and emails.

You may be fine with a laptop in the range of $500-600. they must have a processor intel i5 or i7 cpu, with 2 "cores". most should have 8 GB of memory. they have different sizes and screen resolutions. 1280 x 800 or higher is recommended for most of the adobe software. the code names for these intel cpu should look like x2xxx-i5 or i7-x5xxx. the "x" is a number or a letter, such as i5-5200U. The i7 of this type is only slightly faster than the i5, so well his scam in territory to deceive consumers.

the processor i7 with 4 cores is the powerful, they are twice as fast as the CPU core 2. It is about 20% slower than a typical desktop i7. Maybe it's more that you need, they are also around 800-$900 to start. their code names would look like i7-x7xxxx.

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