Needed laptop spec for Adobe

[Aanarav Sareen]

What are the specs of the zd8000? Video suite applications really like to use RAM, so give it all you can afford.

Aanarav Sareen
Adobe Certified Expert, Premiere Pro
https://www.asvideoproductions.com/video

[Tim Kolb]

Pentium Ms do work, but get a fast one…large cache…I think if you’re serious about running with a couple of apps open at once, you’ll regret not putting 2 Gigs of RAM in the thing if it will fit.

Also, a large capacity 7200rpm C: drive would enable you to work a bit on the internal if you needed.

…none of that helps battery life much however.

TimK,

Kolb Syverson Communications,
Creative Cow Host,
2004-2005 NAB Post Production Conference
Premiere Pro Technical Chair,
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net

[Bart Conover]

I use a ZD8000 . . .

It has a P4 3.0 Hyper Threading processor, not a mobile chip. 1gb of ram, which I am going to upgrade to 2, sometime soon. 100 gb internal drive.

It works well . . . I use external firewire drives hooked into a notebook firewire card with a six pin connector. I did not like using the built-in 4 pin connector on the ZD8000, because it came loose very easily. I had a few instances where it got loosened while PPro was in the process of saving a project . . . only to find out that in the process the project file was corrupted. A good reason to always remember to use Auto-Save.

[Demonguile]

Just one thing to keep in mind here when working with premiere pro on a laptop are the actual hardware differnces between a desktop
1. hdd- it needs to be at 7200 rpm(internal) external hardrives do not provide the same data transfer rate as internal hard drives even though they have speeds up to 7200 rpm. the data transfer rate is slower.(it has caused problems for some people, not everybody though)corrupted footage and projects, dropped frames during capture, or poor playback during editing* if you have other devices connected to the laptop disconnect them to cut back on system resource use(printers,dv devices etc.)That means if a usb hdd and IEEE1394 device plugged in. Then something has to go.
2. video card – shared system memory, need i say more(make sure you have the latest drivers)
3. on board sound card – laptops have emulated sound cards. Some which may cause problems, although if your emulated card supports ASIO you should be alright
4. CPU type – as long as it supports SSE2 and is a current intel or amd model, you should be good to go performance will slighty differ between the two chip types