Need advice buying laptop

[Aanarav Sareen]

Hi Evalene,

I only use laptops to edit, because I travel so much. I do have a couple of desktops, but laptops outperform most of them. I just purchased a new laptop, less than a week ago and the specs are as follows:

Pentium M 2.0ghz CORE DUO
2gb RAM
nVidia 7800go
DVD+-RW
and the standard stuff.

Here are some things to keep in mind:

1) Make sure you get a good warranty. Laptops tend to overheat quickly with the applications we use.
2) Make sure that you get a 7200rpm internal drive
3) Make sure that you get a laptop with atleast 4 USB ports. You will need them for external drives.

The model # for my laptop is Dell Inspiron 9400 and you just missed a great deal that was posted yesterday. The configuration above was selling for just over $1250.

Let me know if you need further help.

Best,

Aanarav Sareen
premiere@asvideoproductions.com

[Evalene Brewer]

Thanks for the advice Aanarav. This will be my first laptop.

[Evalene Brewer]

Aanava, this is the quto from dell
Intel core processor 1.73GHz/533MHz FSB
2GB,ddr2,533mhz 2 Dimm
256MB nividia GEForce Go 7900 Gs
100Gb 7200RPM SATA hard drive
3yr contract
Let me know if this is a good machine
Thanks for your help.

[Blast1]

Things are going to be changing in the next week or so, Intel is releasing a new line of dual core processors “Core Duo 2” whch have much higer performance at about the same prices and drastically drop the prices on the older “Core Duos”, so there maybe better pricing on systems using the older processors and better cost/performance ratio on the newer models.

[Evalene Brewer]

Thanks again Aanarav for the tip i will wait to make my purchase.

[Blast1]

This site usually has Dell sale info and sometimes coupons.

https://www.edealinfo.com/

[Scott Jensen]

Who out there is using there laptop for editing HDV and playback of Windows WMV 720p and/or 1080p hd files. The Windows website has not been updated for some time and is kind of vague about system requirements (calling for 3 ghz or equivalent CPU) but I’d guess some of the latest processor equipped laptops might qualify?

https://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx#sysreq

[Aanarav Sareen]

[Scott Jensen] ”
Who out there is using there laptop for editing HDV and playback of Windows WMV 720p and/or 1080p hd files. The Windows website has not been updated for some time and is kind of vague about system requirements (calling for 3 ghz or equivalent CPU) but I’d guess some of the latest processor equipped laptops might qualify?”

I am using my lapotp for HDV editing and this time around, my Core Duo laptop can actually handle native HDV editing in Premiere Pro. I also have an HD TV Tuner connected to my system and the quality is FANTASTIC! Couldn’t ask for anything better.

Evalene,
That seems like a good setup. However, increase the processor from 1.73 to 2.0.

Aanarav Sareen
premiere@asvideoproductions.com