250 Gb is very small by todays performance laptop standards and whilst you have not answered a question on the amount of RAM installed the size of the SSD indicates that is will have the minimal amount.
Think 2Gb RAM for each CPU core as being the minimum required, double that for Photo Editing.
As suggested a Macbook is by far the best Laptop for Photo and Video editing. We have a Macbook Air and it is blistering fast when I am using Photoshop, or video editing using FCP Pro or Da Vinci Resolve. Ours is by no means top of range and it is far cheaper than an Asus Windows 11 Laptop with the same performance.
Thank you. I’ve managed to find my laptop’s RAM at last, and it is 8GB. OS (C) has 8.8 GB free of 103 GB (showing a red bar. Does this mean that I was mistaken, and that my SSD is even smaller than 250 GB?). DATA (D) has 356 GB free of 931 GB (showing a blue bar). I don’t do video, and for photos I use DxO PhotoLab for raw conversion, and it has worked fine until recently and even now it seems to work most of the time without a problem. I use Affinity Photo and/or an oldish version of Photoshop Elements for other tasks.
The minimum system requirements for my version of PhotoLab are 8GB RAM and 4 GB of available disk space. This is the same minimum as for my NIK Collection, though this does recommend 16 GH RAM and 6 GB disk space. IIRC, I may have run into a problem when using the HDR program in NIK, but I can’t be certain of that. I don’t mind the software being a bit slow, since I’m not using it other than as a hobbyist. I’ll look into the USB flash ploy as a possible short-term answer.
Dave