Best laptop for PP

[Robert Thalheim]

You could stay with your MBP. But for the same price you’ll get much more power from a HP Elitebook or Lenevo Thinkpad. Just make sure to have a nVidia GPU. But as Apple Certy?

[Joseph W. bourke]

I just put the CS5 Master Collection on a Lenovo Thinkpad W510. It has an NVidia card (Quadro FX 880m – their fastest available notebook card), 16GB of RAM, and an i7 processor. I picked it up on E*** very lightly used, and was able to purchase an extended warranty from Lenovo (its’ original warranty had not lapsed). So far, this thing runs circles around my desktop graphics/editing machine, which is also a quad core, albeit older. It has USB 3.0 connections, DisplayPort, Firewire, HDMI, Bluetooth, and with its’ dock (or without, actually), I can hook up to a wireless mouse and keyboard and pump it into my desktop monitor for office productions. And it’s built like a tank! It even has splash channels in the keyboard tray which will channel that spilled cup of coffee out the bottom (no…I don’t plan to test that) I love it so far!

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Ron Pestes]

Thanks guys! I am looking at those computers now.

Apple Certified Master Pro FCS 2
Sony EX-3
MacBook Pro

[Mark Palmos]

Hi
I would not keep the MPB… at least if you are going to run CS on windows… my mpb is about to get sold and Im getting a faster PC laptop. My mpb runs SOOO hot that I have to get an ice block from the deep freeze to rest my mbp on, seriously. I think the fans do not work properly in boot camp.

Anyhow, I am on a similar quest, and unfortunately the adobe list of mobile graphics cards seems very limited/oudated, and does not list any gtx cards, like the one mentioned in this thread, so I suspect many more nvidia cards actually do give mercury playback acceleration, but are not mentioned in their list.

keep us posted…
Mark.

[Ron Pestes]

I have an HP 8740 laptop arriving on Tuesday with 8 cores, 16 gig of RAM and CS 5.5 Production Premium just waiting to install. Been watching all the video tutorials and read through Richard Harrington’s book so I am ready to jump in. My MBP will be slowly fazed out as I get comfortable with the new setup.

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Apple Certified Master Pro FCS 2
Sony EX-3
MacBook Pro
HP 8740 laptop
New convert to Adobe CS5.5 Production Premium