How does Graphic Designing work?
Although almost everyone is familiar with the concept of graphic designing, we first have to look into the working of graphic designing software to actually understand the kind of hardware required to these software and what feature of your device does a graphic designing software uses to complete the tasks the user requires it to do.
Software Processing »» Graphic designing software like the Adobe creative cloud products basically take the pictures and videos that you want to either edit or redesign and process these images and videos, then as you edit them, the graphics card installed in your machine renders the graphics of your image or video and accurately focuses on the pixels, color, foreground and background of the picture and then user can change or edit any part of that image that he may like.
Hardware Processing »» Now, to store this much of data while rendering the data, the software uses a lot of RAM as it basically works to store the edited image or video as work is being done on it, meanwhile the entire processing is done by the CPU of computer and the hard drive installed in the computer constantly reads and writes the image and video data and the changes that are being made to said data. All of these processes require a lot of work from every component of the computer. Hence, graphic designing requires its user to at-least meet the minimum requirements of the software that they’re using for editing images and videos.
Adobe creative cloud products
Minimum Requirements:
Now that we’ve established the components of computer that the Adobe creative cloud products require, we can now determine the minimum specifications that these software requires your laptop to have, and these specs are listed as follows:
➲ 8GB RAM
➲ 4-core processor with 64 bit support
➲ Minimum of 256GB Hard drive
➲ Adequate integrated GPU powerful enough to render the graphics (like Intel 620).
These requirements may vary depending upon the kind of work that the user needs to do, like editing a 4k video needs double the graphic rendering power as compared to editing a 1080p video. Nonetheless these are the ultimate minimum specs for a laptop to have if anyone wants to use it to run any Adobe creative cloud product to edit basic 1080p videos or images.
Can budget laptops handle Graphics Designing?
We now know enough as to which type of laptops are suitable for handling the task of running software like the Adobe creative cloud products. Do we actually need an expensive over the top laptop or can this work be performed on any budget laptop? But first, we need to clarify the concept of what actually is considered a budget laptop in Pakistan.
Budget laptop »» A budget laptop is usually considered to be a low costing machine that can easily handle everyday computing for a regular user. Budget laptops ranging from 150$ to 200$ are considered as budget laptops, as this price range is quite affordable for most of the people and these laptops can handle everyday working software easily.
Laptops like HP Notebook series, Dell Inspiron and latitude series, Lenovo think-pad series and even the Asus Zen-book series are some of the most commonly used budget laptops in the world. But the questions remains, can they run Adobe creative cloud products for even basic video editing?
Well the simple answer to this questions is this. Yes, these are the best laptops for Adobe Creative Cloud, but in order to work on these software, users have make some compromises. You can certainly edit 1080p videos on these laptops but the loading and image rendering time will be much higher compared to high range laptops and this will also put a lot of load on the CPU which may result in the laptop getting hotter. Moreover 4k video editing cannot be done in budget laptops as they require a very power CPU and GPU to render the increased quality of graphics.
Budget laptops
Conclusion:
After knowing how the graphic designing software like Adobe creative cloud products work, and seeing the minimum requirements a laptop needs in order to run these software, we can easily conclude that a person can in fact run these software by spending less money and using budget laptops but he has to make compromises in the form of longer loading and rendering time, video should be of 1080p quality or less and all of this processing will put a lot of load on the relatively less powerful CPU and integrated GPU of the laptop and thus ultimately heating the components which can affect the performance of the laptop.
