Laptop Specs for CS5

[Kevin Monahan]

[neil frye] “NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 555M using NVIDIA Optimus™”

“NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 540M”

Neil, these video cards are not supported for GPU acceleration with the Mercury Playback Engine, so I would say, “neither”. Here’s the page with the qualified NVIDA video cards: https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/tech-specs.html

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[Neil Frye]

Thank you. That page link answered all my questions.

[Neil Frye]

The alien ware M17 has this card in it. I believe that is the same as the GTX 580 mentioned in your list?

2GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 580M

Looks like there is a laptop out there that has the card I need.

[Neil Frye]

Any other laptops that you could suggest that have any of these graphic cards in them?

[Alan Lacey]

I have a three year old Dell M6400 with the geforce 3700m working with Mercury. I don’t know how many cores the Mercury is using but I suspect it’s a LOT fewer than any of the desktop cards

Alan (uk)

FlashXDR,XDcamHD,XDcamEX,D9 etc
FCS,AE,Combustion,LiquidSilver,Vegas,Edius,
G5,MBP,Vista64,XP

[Alex Schwindt]

Neil, if I were you I’d check out the Lenovo ThinkPad W520. You can outfit it with up to –

Intel 2.5GHz i7 Quad processor
1920×1080 LED Screen
NVIDIA Quadro 2000M 2GB graphics card
16GB PC3-10600 SDRAM
Dual RAID 500GB HDDs @ 7200rpm

It not the cheapest machine around, but it ought to knock out some serious work…

[Neil Frye]

Sweet thanks Alex ill check that thinkpad out.

what do you guys think about this computer

Dell Precision Mobile M4600, Genuine Windows® 7 Professional, 64-bit

Processor Intel® Core™ i7-2720QM (Quad Core 2.20GHz,6M cache) with Turbo BoostTechnology 2.0
Memory 8.0GB, DDR3-1600MHz SDRAM, 4 DIMMS
Graphics NVIDIA® Quadro® 2000M with 2GB GDDR3
LCDs 15.6″ HD(1366×768) LED-backlit, Multi-Touch and Stylus
Primary Storage 500GB 7200rpm Hard Drive

[Alex Schwindt]

my only hang up with that machine would be the screen resolution. When you’re running these Adobe apps the more pixels the better. If you could push that spec up I’d recommend doing it…

[Neil Frye]

I found this in another thread and thought it was interesting. perhaps someone could spread some light on the pros and cons of going with a setup such as the XPS 15 laptop.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/912733
“With GPUs that aren’t officially supported yet will work for MPE hardware acceleration:

– Toshiba Qosmio X775-3DV78 – $1900 with GeForce GTX 560M 1.5GB
– Toshiba Qosmio X505-Q8104X – $1900 with GeForce GTX 460M 1.5GB
– Dell XPS 17 – $1,893.99 (YMMV) with GeForce GT 555M 3GB
– Dell XPS 15 – $1,769.99 (YMMV) with GeForce GT 540M 2GB
– Dell Alienware M17x – $2,913.00 (YMMV) GeForce GT 460M 1.5GB

The XPS 15 (thanks Chris Knight) is a fantastic deal starting at just $899 with the GeForce® GT 540M 2GB graphics.”

what do they mean it will work with MPE hardware acceleration.

[Neil Frye]

Basically I want to know what they mean when they say not officially supported. Does that mean some time in the future this card will be supported or does it mean that this card will do the job effectively 80% of the time? or What?