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Need laptop advice for Premiere Pro
Hi guys,
I’m a Final Cutter who is finally moving to Premiere after the great Final Cut abandonment. I’ve narrowed it down to 2 laptops good enough to run Premiere and some lightweight stuff in After Effects.
The Dell XPS XPS15
and the Asus G55VW
I’ve chosen these 2 because they are both in my price range, around £1000 or whatever the dollar equivalent is and they both seem to have the right hardware, graphics card that sorta thing. So whilst I want a fully speced Lenovo or HP, I can’t afford one but appreciate they will be better for the job.
Also whilst I appreciate a brand new shiny Macbook with retina display will be just awesome with Premiere, again I can’t afford it so, there’s no point in telling me about those :-).
So comments about the above 2 laptops please, or maybe you know something better/as good, that I should be looking at.
I haven’t bought a computer since 2006 so I guess I need to know things like touchscreen or no touchscreen? Windows 7 or 8? Solid State or not? That kind of thing.
Many thanks in advance.
System
Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSataEquipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100 -
1 Reply
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Hi Roli,
Premiere is definitely better than Final Cut! Once you switch, you’ll never look back.
Those laptops are both pretty tops. You’d want at least 8 gigs of RAM (and preferably twice as much as that for smooth editing with effects and so forth).
A Solid State Drive makes such a difference, it’s huge.
A touch screen will cost you more, and not give you much appreciative benefit. I’d recommend skipping it.
Windows 7 or Windows 8 is great (don’t listen to people who tell you Windows 8 is subpar, they’re just moaning. I’ve used both and there’s no huge difference) but you definitely want to make sure you’re getting the 64 bit version of the operating system.
Both laptops have great CPUs, so I’d choose the one that doesn’t have a touch screen.
Hope that helps!
Jonan Grobler
Editor/Motion Graphics
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