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Best laptop for using AE and Premiere?
Hello everyone. I’m looking into getting a laptop to edit in Premiere and After Effects, so I can take it on the road to clients and AEs. What kind of laptop would you suggest? Thanks.
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4 Replies
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A big and expensive one. One with at least a 17″ screen. One with lots of RAM and the best graphics board that money can buy.
Short of that, figure it isn’t going to work.
chuck
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I’ve been working on a core duo Macbook Pro for about a year now. It is very quick. Its old school though, if you pick up a core 2 duo macbook pro, and pick up the production bundle in binary when it comes out in july, it should be about 40% faster than my machine. (I’m currently running AE/Premiere via bootcamp…)
I’m currently running the binary version of AE in OSX, and its pretty impressive.
Put 3 gigs of RAM in it too. It isn’t cheap, but you need it. And make sure your prefs dump the cache after every frame rendered. Otherwise you’ll crap out renders all the time.
Nicholas Toth
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Thanks for the replies guys. It’s appreciated. In the long run, is it safer to go with a regular computer that can do more than with a laptop with restrictions just so I can carry it around. Thanks Again.
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One problem with the Apple laptops is that they are not up to the same spec as top level Wintel laptops. They don’t get to full 1920×1080 and they only have the ATI X1600 graphics card wchich is a couple steps down from what is available on the Wintel systems.
My nine month old Toshiba Qosmio has 1920×1200 on the built in LCD as well as running the external 24″ LCD at 1920×200 – and I am able to play back HD material smoothly. It uses the Nvidia 7600 card which is about the same as the X1600 and while editing HD isn’t going to be as quick as a desktop system costing the same – a new laptop will be as fast as the desktop from a year ago that everyone found usable.
There is absolutely no problem with standard definition on my laptop and HD is workable… I don’t expect it to be smooth sailing with 4K material from the Red Camera I have on order but I’ll see how slow it is.
The biggest drawback to ANY laptop is that the display will not have a wide gamut and it will be trickier to calibrate… colour correction will not be easy or accurate.
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