Lightroom users, Help!

Now that I see the true benefits of shooting in RAW with my 77d, I downloaded Light-room, onto a laptop and try to print on my Canon Pixma-pro 100.
The laptop just cant handle Lightroom, averaging 2 minutes between mouse clicks!
The staff at Staples are trying but can only suggest a "Gamer" desktop cause it has a capable VRAM card.
Question is can a system like this also do the basics like E-mail, Microsoft Word, Excel, ect?

Thanks
Ron

 

Ron, the computer that can handle a high end game will handle the less taxing programs as those you spoke of. A gaming computer relies on how good the CPU, onboard memory or RAM, the graphics card and it's available RAM, so a good gaming machine will will handle what you want.

 

I have just bought a new computer myself. I have gone from a laptop to an all in one to a desktop. I am a novice when it comes to tech...or an old technophobe may be more apt.
After reading what I could on the internet I decided to get a desktop with an i7 chip, a 256gb SSD for windows 10, this or a larger SSD may accommodate lightroom as well and a 2tb HDD for image storage, result is my new one is so much faster than my old HDD only all in one, has more than twice the memory. Black Friday deal.
I did find that microsoft office had to be purchased seperately so downloaded a free one (libreoffice) off the net. It is reasonably if not totally compatible with official office software. Some high end functions may not work.
I have previously used openoffice on my laptop which is free to download also. That should take care of your "office" requirements.
The desktop is easily upgraded with a better graphics card if necessary to suit lightroom's requirements.
The January sales are not far off and the "Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals may still continue somewhere.
Best of luck.