Laptop advice to use with Premiere Pro CS6

[Tim Kolb]

I have the previous model, the W520…16GB RAM, i7, 2GB Quadro card…works very well in my opinion.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Philip Merten]

Thanks Tim.

[Craig Ricker]

Could consider the Retina Mac Book Pro 15 inch. I use 1 and premiere works flawlessly on it. I edit natively GH2 .mts files without any slow downs what so ever.

Price is a joke though. Good screen and very fast SSD’s is a huge plus though.

Mac Pro 2 x 2.4Ghz, 16GB RAM, GTX 660

[Tero Ahlfors]

The Lenovo was one of the options I had, but I went with the HP Elitebook 8560W. I’ve been happy with it and it’s pretty fast.

[Aaron Cadieux]

Hello Philip,

I do a lot of work on the road so I bought the following laptop:
Dell XPS L702x 17″ Notebook

I bought mine from a company on EBay as a factory refurbished unit. What would have been a $3 – $4k laptop cost me $1,400. It came with the plastic wrap still on it, and I have never had a problem with it. It also came with a warranty.

Mine has 16 GB of RAM, an Intel Core i7 and a solid state primary drive. It uses an Nvidia GT 550m, which I easily hacked to take advantage of Mercury Playback. My unit also came with a Blu-Ray reader/writer.

I routinely run Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop and Encore. Many times I have multiple applications running at the same time. I do most of my editing on an external Lacie 4big Quadra set to RAID10 and connected via eSata. I bounce the drive back and forth between my laptop and my office workstation.

This laptop is absolutely amazing. I cannot believe how stable and fast it is. It is one of the best purchases I’ve made in over a decade in this business. I would HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend it.

Best,

Aaron

[Philip Merten]

Thanks Aaron!

[Joseph W. bourke]

Same deal on the Lenovo – I have the W510, with 16GB of RAM and the fastest NVIDIA card (for the time) made. It’s fast, I can take it to my clients place to do field work. No downside at all…

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