With summer almost here let’s look at some of the latest laptops that will help you while your on the go. So I’ve compiled a list of some of the nicest laptops I personally would buy, with the intentions of graphics designing and a little bit of gaming.

Plan out your purchase !

One tip of advice that you should always follow when purchasing your new laptop is make sure the graphics card is pretty dam good. By pretty dam good I mean it has to be useful for at least a year and a half to 3 years. Technology improves fast , although ram can be upgraded easily most graphic cards on laptops can’t !

As a designer I’ll be frank with you , On average most of the time on my laptop I have at least 20 tabs open in Firefox , 20 more in Chrome , Photoshop , Fireworks Dreamweaver , Msn & Aim as well as an MP3 player of some sort playing in the background! So if you use your computer like I do then you’ll probably want 4gb ram minimum running on an 64-bit OS.

I’ve broken the laptop list into 2 categories , One for the designer on the go who always has to be lugging around their laptop , Two for the designers such as myself that wants a laptop powerful enough to suffice as a desktop replacement and don’t mind a 17inch+ LCD screen. Personally I can’t wait to upgrade my Vaio FZ to an 18 inch desktop replacement. I love laptops with big shiny screens.

Enjoy the Top Summer Time Laptops for Designers!

[ Laptop ] Z-Series Sony Vaio Notebook [13.1 Inches] Weighing just 3.42 lbs.
Designer Laptop Summary : The Z-series laptop in sony’s consumer lineup is one of the most portable laptops in it’s class. But I can assure you that when you pay for a sony Z it will still pack a punch. The series includes a Dual Core 2 chip as well as DDR3 memory. The big bonus for designers who need photoshop on the go . . . Nvidia GeForce 9300m GS chip. Need I say more ?
[ Laptop ] HP TouchSmart tx2z Series [12.1 Inches] Weighing just 4.65 lb.
Designer Laptop Summary : I have listed HP’s Tablet PC laptop because of the . . . . TOUCHSCREEN. This is infinitley useful for designers who love to draw all kinds of things from vector art to touch up in digital art. It comes powered by AMD Turion(TM) X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile Processor ZM-86 (2.4 GHz) & ATI Radeon(TM) HD 3200 Graphics with 64MB Display Cache Memory.
[ Laptop ] Lenovo IdeaPad Y730 – 40532EU [13.3 Inches] Weighing just 4.18 lb
Designer Laptop Summary : Lenovas aren’t high profile as a Sony Vaio or as extravegent as an alienware but they build powerful quality computers. This model is powered by a Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme processor X9100 ( 3.06GHz 1GHz 6MB ), ATI Mobility Radeon 3650 512MB , 4 GB PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM 1066MHz and includes many others.