HOT 268: Laptop Recommendations - The Right Laptop For Your Photography Needs
Hands-On Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode of Hands-On Tech, Robert asks Mikah for help choosing a new Windows laptop suited for heavy photo and video editing work, including guidance on GPU and VRAM requirements for his specific software stack, as well as advice on whether switching to a Mac is a viable option after a disastrous previous migration experience.
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Host: Mikah Sargent
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Hands on Tech, it's time to answer the question of what is the next laptop purchase |
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| 1:21.9 | Hello and welcome to hands-on tech. I am Micah Sargent. And today we are once again taking the time to take your tech questions and answer them. You can reach out to me. HOT at twit.tv is how you get in touch. And in doing so, we'll be able to do some research and answer your questions. Got some good ones. |
| 1:44.3 | I actually went deep into the grab bag for these couple of questions today to knock them |
| 1:52.1 | off the list because sometimes you get these questions that are modern and will answer |
| 1:58.7 | what we, you know, could help somebody out who is looking for a PC at the moment. |
| 2:05.3 | So without further ado, let's get into it and see what Robert has asked. |
| 2:11.3 | So Robert writes in and says, hello, Micah, and friends, since my old Windows laptop just went belly up, I could use help in choosing |
| 2:18.9 | a new one, especially since things have recently gotten more complicated due to the increasing |
| 2:23.5 | importance of GPUs. My use case, I'm pretty heavy into photography. I take and process thousands |
| 2:30.6 | of photos and some videos on my trips to multi-day events such as track and field |
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