I have been obsessively cross-referencing benchmark scores, gamut coverage percentages, and sRGB vs. Adobe RGB delta-E ratings for the last two weeks trying to find a laptop that can actually handle 300 dpi CMYK files in Illustrator without crashing when I have more than twelve layers open, and the consensus seems to be either the Lenovo IdeaPad 5 with a Ryzen 7 5700U and integrated Radeon graphics or the Acer Swift 3 with an i7-1165G7 and Intel Iris Xe, but then I found a refurbished Dell Precision 3560 with a T600 Quadro card for just under a thousand that supposedly has Pantone validation, except the display is only 45% NTSC and everyone says sRGB coverage is the only thing that matters, and the new ASUS Vivobook 16 has a 16-inch 2.5K OLED but it uses a P620 GPU which is basically a glorified calculator for actual rendering, and the HP Envy 16 has a dedicated RTX 3050 but the color accuracy out of the box apparently requires a hardware calibrator which adds another hundred dollars to the budget, and I keep seeing conflicting threads where someone says the MacBook Air M1 with 8GB of unified memory handles 4K timelines in DaVinci Resolve no problem but another thread insists that 8GB is a bottleneck for Photoshop and you need sixteen, but sixteen pushes the price over a thousand even on a refurb, so I need someone to settle this for me specifically for Adobe Creative Suite - Illustrator, Photoshop, and the occasional After Effects comp - absolutely zero gaming, strict one thousand dollar cap including tax, and if the screen is calibrated from the factory that is a massive plus but I can use a Spyder if I have to, what is the single best configuration that will not choke on a 6000x4000 pixel PSD with twenty adjustment layers.
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