Not sure if this is posted in the proper thread or not.
But, it may be confusion and shock that causes me to be stunned at the cost of a new computer setup just to do photography these days. My old trusty Dell will need to be replaced at age 15 which is only a couple of years away.
Hardware (probably Mac ProBook or similar), new software, storage, etc., etc., etc.
I will sell all that I own to buy one and then have a computer for...what? Hard times hard choices. But I know that is going to be a hard nut to crack so I am doing my research and soliciting responses as to what system and such that YOU use for the huge photo files and software that we now need just to do "photography". Yikes!!!
Part of my thinking will include, of course, just what am I doing in the first place? Why am I even doing photography? Where am I going with this and then, what do I really need, if anything? Soul-searching is hard sometimes.