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Best Notebook for CS4
We began using Premiere back in the days of 6.5 and than participated through the entire CS2 beta program.
For years now we have persisted, with quite good results, using Pentium M 1.8 notebooks to edit and author DVD’s and build websites.
Now with 1080 HD editing [including 1080 30p, 24p] the processing speed needed to handle larger files compels us to move up to faster hardware.
We still believe in notebooks, because much of our work is in the field and off the grid. We also enjoy the natural protection of built in batteries when our solar powered inverters use up available battery power.
So we are in search of users with first hand experience in state-of-the-art platforms, preferably Quad Core.
We are also concerned about the “elegance” or lack thereof, of all current operating systems. Vista seems to suffer from code load. We love XP Pro but alas, it does not come equipped with some of the modern media features that herald the unification of TV and web streaming technologies.
So, considering all the above, do any users have pointers to the “Best Notebook for CS4” [PP, Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, AE . . .]
?Thanks for your advice.
Bob Kiger aka Cruiser Bob . . . Author VIDEOGRAPHY! WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? copyrights 1972 – 2005
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For Video editing and using Adobe products you can’t go wrong with a Macbook Pro 17 inch. I would get the 4GB of ram option. It blazes through video.
If you want a PC then I would go with either Dell or Toshiba. Just make sure you get at least 4GB or Ram and a fast Core Duo processor.
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Thanks Lucas for the general direction. History shows us that Macintosh has done a superior job of penetration into digital editing with Final Cut Pro over Adobe’s marketing of Premiere Pro.
It is astounding to us [Videography Lab] that Adobe/Microsoft with all their core coding in enabling video technologies would have allowed MAC to penetrate so deeply. I would hazard to say that the single MAC “unique selling proposition” is Quality. MACs look and perform seamlessly and in tune with today’s youthful world.
Alas. I have been a PC guy from DOS 1.0 and I have such a stockpile of software and hardware that is not MAC compatible so regarding a switch in Platform from MAC to PC, it does not seem practicable [legal term] in this case.
I agree that Dell and Toshiba have traditionally made some powerful laptops and if we delve a bit deeper you will see why I’m not sold on either yet!
It goes back to HD editing on the laptop. All assets have to be stored resident on the platform in order to take advantage of maximum buss speed. To the best of my knowledge, neither Dell or Toshiba, has ever deployed a Universal Drive Bay in their notebooks.
Universal Drive Bay allows swapping big hard drives [SS or traditional] as well as Blu Ray burners or many other devices into a slot on the side of the unit. This allows long form editors to have upwards of 2 TB of storage resident on the C: drive which is built in and the Universal Hard Drive[s]. Consider that if an editor had a couple of projects working at once, each project could have it’s own unique drive, which is inserted when the editor decides which project he will work on that day.
Besides UDB, some call it UniBay and many other names, the screen display must have native 1920×1080 resolution and the video card to support such dataflow.
[So does that make it a bit harder/easier a choice :]
Bob Kiger – Videography Lab
Bob Kiger aka Cruiser Bob . . . Author VIDEOGRAPHY! WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? copyrights 1972 – 2005
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