Laptop to Desktop file transfer.

[Clive Mclaughlin]

Thanks John,

Just to clarify. Obviously I know you would recommend a top notch GPU, but since money is tight, would you say I’d be as well saving money and dropping the GPU from my search, rather than getting a below par one that will hardly benefit me?

I’d hate to even spend £50 more thinking it was for an improvement if you are telling me, it may not be!

[Clive Mclaughlin]

I think this is the best option I can find within my budget. Looks like i7 is just not an option for less than £550…

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Asus-K55VD-SX494H-Notebook-Graphics-Metallic/dp/B009YUF56Q/ref=sr_1_3?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1359068401&sr=1-3

Anyone mind advising me on the spec?

Close second is this one. Love the ideapad – not sure about the red though!

https://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/Lenovo_Z58_1292737.html?utm_medium=google_shopping&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=google_shopping

[John Rofrano]

[Clive McLaughlin] “Obviously I know you would recommend a top notch GPU, but since money is tight, would you say I’d be as well saving money and dropping the GPU from my search, rather than getting a below par one that will hardly benefit me?”

Yes, GPU results have been spotty at best so I wouldn’t spend a lot on one if it’s not important to you because you need a really good one to see any “real” benefit.

~jr

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[Dave Osbun]

If the system you are looking at has extra physical space for an additional hard drive, it would be MUCH CHEAPER to buy a 7200rpm sata hard drive and install it yourself. Most laptops have panels on the underside, or trays that slide out the front, for installing extra hardware. I swapped the hard drive out of my mother’s laptop and it took about 2 minutes.

[John Rofrano]

[Clive McLaughlin] ” Looks like i7 is just not an option for less than £550″

I’m confused. What was wrong with the original Lenovo ideapad Y570? It was a Core i7 for £499?

~jr

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[Clive Mclaughlin]

Need a HDD for it, and would want to upgrade ram, but someone said because its only 32bit windows, 4GB is the max?

Or was I told wrong? Buying 64bit OS on top of teh other upgrades would make it too pricey I think.

[John Rofrano]

[Clive McLaughlin] “Buying 64bit OS on top of teh other upgrades would make it too pricey I think.”

You have to look at what’s upgradable. If you buy a Core i5 you can never upgrade the CPU. It will always be a Core i5 with 2 cores forever. If you buy a Core i7 with 4 cores, you can upgrade to 64-bit OS later (although it’s only £14.99 to do it now) and you can add more memory later and you can add another hard drive later.. and.. and.. and… but the Core i5 will always be a Core i5. You see if you don’t have all of the money now, then you have to buy for upgrade later. Since the Core i5 can never be upgraded later, the Core i7 is a better buy IMHO even though it might take more money to get it where you need it. Just something to consider. That Core i7 has an SSD and an HDD. That’s is a pretty unique laptop option and perfect for a video editor who needs the speed of an SSD and the capacity of an HDD.

~jr

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[Clive Mclaughlin]

Good points John. And I’m only just realising this is a quad core i7, because I’m finding it difficult finding an Ideapad with the full i7 as opposed to the lightweight mobile versions.

Plenty to think about…

[Clive Mclaughlin]

Cheers John, I’m certainly considering it. Tell me though, Would Vegas run ok with the source files on an external drive via USB 3.0??

I’m thinking the 64GB SSD might hold OS, Vegas and Photoshop? And that would be all I would need. I could then buy an external drive firstly and an HDD at a later date.

An eSata drive requires a power source doesn’t it? So it doesn’t really work with the idea of the laptop being portable.

[John Rofrano]

[Clive McLaughlin] “Tell me though, Would Vegas run ok with the source files on an external drive via USB 3.0??”

I don’t know. All of my external storage is eSATA or Firewire. USB 3.0 is fast enough but it requires CPU overhead to operate unlike Firewire & eSATA that are smart interfaces. You will probably be OK. My CineRAID enclosure has both eSATA and USB 3.0 so I’m sure they wouldn’t offer USB 3.0 if it didn’t work. If you have problems you can get a 500GB internal laptop drive for about £37 so it’s not that expensive to fix.

~jr

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