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Budget Premiere Laptops
HI
The new Adobe Premiere CS5 is a hungry beast and unless you spend a few thousand on a laptop you wont get a spec that officially works.
But here are a few laptops Ive found that come close and are much more affordable. As far as I can see they an all benefit form the MPE hack to take advantage of GPU support.Sony VAIO F series (VPCF127FX/B) $1500
HP DV8 $1500
Toshiba Qosmio X505-Q890 ($1900)They all have
i7 processor
6-8 Gb ram
500GB(7200rpm) Hard drive
1Gb nVidia Graphics with Cuda
1080p screen resolutionHas any one tried out any of these laptops with CS5?
Have you used MPEG2/AVCHD and found it editable?Im most interested in the sony as its the only one that doesnt look like crap 😛
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The Toshiba is the only one of the group that you mentioned that has a decent video card, you want to have at least a GTS series mobile card, more cuda cores 96 vice 48 in the sony and hp
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Thanks yes its true but its quite a lot more and not really a budget laptop.
I know you get what you pay for but Im interested in what experiences people have had in using such laptops. Ive heard people using the nVidia GT 230m , like in the HP DV8 has worked.
By the way they all have eSATA ports which is another necessity.
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Do any of these listed laptops have HDMI out or USB 3?
John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore
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Hi John
They all have HDMI, but no USB3.
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I have found this at B&H photos
ASUS G51Jx
Price after Mail-In Rebate :$ 1,268.991.6GHz Intel Core i7-720QM Quad-Core
6GB RAM500GB 7200rpm Hard Drive
SuperMulti DVD Burner
nVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M 1GB Graphics
15.6″ Full HD Widescreen Display
Integrated Camera and MicrophoneBluetooth,
802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi
Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)7.3 lbThis is the best value out there by far.
Has anyone tried Premiere CS5 on this?
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update the toshiba x505 Price:$1,381.95 from b&h photo
a much better priceit basically comes down what gamer notebook design can you live with!
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