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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
03-28-2015, 09:26 AM
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I'm going to assume you want a desktop rather than a laptop.
Graphic card: High speed graphic card upgrades are mostly for video games, graphics production, and some special professional applications. Photo processing won't benefit very much (but it's rumored that Lightroom 6 might be able to do parallel processing on a video card to speed things up).
RAM: 8GB is plenty for photo processing.
Processor: A Core i5 or i7. It gets tricky because there are so many similar processor models. A newer i5 might be faster than an older i7.
Solid State Drive: Photos consume a lot of space so SSD gets expensive. Your options include one large SSD, a smaller SSD for programs and a large mechnical hard drive for photos, or one large hard drive for everything. Multiple drives can give faster performance for more money and more complexity. [you'll also need to think about an external backup drive or online backup because you don't want to lose all your photos if your drive dies]
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