• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Best PC To Purchase

  Posted by Colin Brady on June 22, 2009 at 7:40 pm

  Hi,

  I am setting myself up with a little editing suite and I am looking for advice on what I should be looking for when buying a machine to install premiere pro onto. I want to have it on a laptop. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

  Also, I wanted to buy an external drive. I heard G-Raid are quite good.

  Thanks,

  Colin

  Brian Louis replied 16 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Tim Kolb

  June 24, 2009 at 3:45 pm

  I assume we’re talking CS4.

  Most likely a laptop that runs PPro CS4 won’t be partcularly ‘portable’. I.m running it on a Dell M90 (* couple years old) with 2 GB of RAM and WXP…it works, but dynamc link is pretty much a no go.

  I’d get a laptop with as much RAM as you can cram into it, and the largest display possible…

  …and an asbestos blanket for your lap.

  TimK,
  Director, Consultant
  Kolb Productions,
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  Brian Louis

  June 27, 2009 at 6:40 pm

  I’m running it on a HP dv7t I got the end of last year, it has a core2 2.66mhz, 4gigs of ram, 9600mGT 512g video, 17″ screen, two internal Harddrives, a built-in eSATA which I run a 2TB raid0, I’m going to upgrade it to 8gigs as 4gig chips are dropping in price(most laptops have only 2 slots for ram), I picked up another 17″ monitor, next thing is going to be a Matrox MX02 for I/O, external video monitor use, and HDMI to use a camcorder as a live camera head. The laptop is not the lightest machine but the 17″ screen more than makes up for it,

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