2024's Best Laptops for Creative Professionals

Modern laptops reflect significant advancements in technology and design, catering to diverse user needs from hardcore gaming to seamless productivity. These innovations are crucial for photographers, videographers, and creative professionals who rely on powerful, versatile tools for their work.

Coming to you from Matthew Moniz, this insightful video highlights several standout laptops of early 2024, pinpointing features that cater to a wide range of users. Moniz' praise for the HP Spectre X360 14 inch as a top choice for its design, performance, and value illustrates the importance of these aspects in selecting a laptop, particularly for professional work. This 2-in-1 laptop, with its superb keyboard, OLED display, and battery life, demonstrates the critical balance between functionality and aesthetics that photographers and videographers seek in a device. Additionally, Moniz discusses the MacBook Air M3, emphasizing its quiet operation and GPU upgrade, which are pivotal for creative professionals who need reliable and powerful machines for editing and rendering tasks.

Moreover, Moniz reviews gaming laptops like the G14 and Blade 14, alongside the Asus Zephyrus G16, underscoring the relevance of portability, display quality, and thermal management in high-performance laptops, which often double fabulously for creative work as well. These insights are invaluable for photographers and videographers who often rely on gaming laptops for their high processing power and superior graphics capabilities. I personally use a gaming laptop for a lot of my work and find it suits me quite well. The emphasis on the G14 for its balance of price and performance further highlights the need for affordable options that do not compromise on quality—a consideration vital for creatives operating within budget constraints. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Moniz.

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Alex Cooke is a Cleveland-based portrait, events, and landscape photographer. He holds an M.S. in Applied Mathematics and a doctorate in Music Composition. He is also an avid equestrian.

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Worst things on PC laptops are massive cropped hdmi output (6 bit?), and windows programs (explorer...) not supporting color profile.
It's really tired to be in 2024 with still these limitations.

That was a legacy setting with nvidia cards and is a simple settings change

I have changed that in settings (6 to 8 bits), but anyway I don't get accurated colors. It looks as a hardware restriction.