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looking for a new laptop. Need help!
Looking for a budget laptop to use Adobe premier Pro and Photoshop running Windows Vista. Please share your setup and experience. I work with mostly 5 megapixel images nothing larger and raw AVI files for video editing stored on external drive.
Please help to make the right choice.
Greatly appreciate any advise or info.
Mike
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What does “budget” mean?
My Dell M90 has been very good but I consider it a workstation replacement so the 3000.00-3500.00 purchase price seems pretty reasonable to me.
Frankly, using Adobe software can be a challenge on under-powered systems…I would prioritize very carefully.
TimK,
Director,
Kolb Productions,Creative Cow Host,
Author/Trainer
http://www.focalpress.com
http://www.classondemand.net -
Hi Tim,
did you have any upgrades? or is it a standard setup?there are the basic comes with 512 ram with is way to low for graphic work even the enhanced only has 1 gb of ram.
they are under 2K now.
Best regards,
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Mine is a T7400 (2.16 GHz) with 2 GB of RAM and a 100 GB internal drive and the WUXGA (1920×1200) display with the NVIDIA Quadro FX 2500M display card…
It still comes up around 3200.00.
TimK,
Director,
Kolb Productions,Creative Cow Host,
Author/Trainer
http://www.focalpress.com
http://www.classondemand.net -
I just helped someone customize a laptop for Production Studio, it was a HP DV9500, T7700 2.4ghz, 2gig memory, 160gig sata, Geforce 8400m, 1680×1050 17″, 8x lightscribe DVD burner, Hi-Cap Bat, $1700, there is space for another on board sata drive, the ad-on carrier is available from HP.
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I have the machine Blast mentionned. A Little fragile, but very bright display.
Opt for (2) 7200 sata drives, you can also buy a eStata II express card for single external drive or even a raid setup.
The graphic card is a Go7600 which can still handle HD very well, at least with Cineform. SD, no problems at full quality.
Maxed out with Core 2 duo and 2 Gigs of ram, you can get it for under $2000.00
Cheers,
Vince
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