What desk/laptop can run a ps2 emulator, photo shop, and fruity loops for under 1000

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So I need 3.3 ghz and 8 gb ram to run the most demanding tool (ps2 emulator)

Apple expensive as hell, Which Windows computer should I get?
Edit: I just seen Dre Space Age already answered your question.
Apple is expensive, but you were looking for something under $1,000. You can get one for that price range easy and run open emu (OpenEmu) which is the emulator I use and love it. It has a ton of emulators and runs smooth as hell.
I also keep retro emulators on a thumb drive for windows to play on my downtime at work. No PS2 emulator though.
 

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Why not build one? For the $700-$800 range you could build a fairly strong pc, depending on where you're allocating the most money towards.
 

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Are you trying to run the games in 720p/1080p? otherwise most laptops should be able to do the job
 

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Edit: I just seen Dre Space Age already answered your question.
Apple is expensive, but you were looking for something under $1,000. You can get one for that price range easy and run open emu (OpenEmu) which is the emulator I use and love it. It has a ton of emulators and runs smooth as hell.
I also keep retro emulators on a thumb drive for windows to play on my downtime at work. No PS2 emulator though.
Why no ps2
 

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Why no ps2
They haven't been able to emulate it properly yet from what I understood, but @Dre Space Age said he has it up and running.
They have independent teams/people work on emulators all the time trying to make them as polished as possible.
There was an XBOX project for a while, I don't know what ever happened to it.
Emulating retro stuff from the Nintendo 64 gen back is very easy and almost any PC can handle it.
From what I understand, PS2 forward is where things get tricky.
If your focus is emulating games in general you could get away with a Raspberry Pi3 and use retro pi.
Accessories and everything will run you less than $100.
Dre can correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think the PS2 emulators out there are really up to snuff right now.
You might want to focus on the old gens, but again, I don't have experience with trying the PS2 emus myself so i can't say with certainty.
I have plans to make a full cabinet retro arcade machine using a raspberry pi 3.
 

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you could build a PC with 1600 Ryzen 5 and a GTX 1070 for about a grand
 

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They haven't been able to emulate it properly yet from what I understood, but @Dre Space Age said he has it up and running.
They have independent teams/people work on emulators all the time trying to make them as polished as possible.
There was an XBOX project for a while, I don't know what ever happened to it.
Emulating retro stuff from the Nintendo 64 gen back is very easy and almost any PC can handle it.
From what I understand, PS2 forward is where things get tricky.
If your focus is emulating games in general you could get away with a Raspberry Pi3 and use retro pi.
Accessories and everything will run you less than $100.
Dre can correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think the PS2 emulators out there are really up to snuff right now.
You might want to focus on the old gens, but again, I don't have experience with trying the PS2 emus myself so i can't say with certainty.
I have plans to make a full cabinet retro arcade machine using a raspberry pi 3.
I used my ps2 emulator to run devil may cry 3, shadow of the colossus, zone of the enders 2 and metal gear solid 3. I had issues with devil may cry 3 cut scenes at first but i followed some random YouTube tutorial to adjust the settings in the emulator and i was good. I don't remember if i posted that in the thread or not tho. I mainly created that emulation thread to document my own experience and jot down notes and shyt.
 
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