New Laptop vs. Old Desktop

[Rory Flynn]

Yes, unfortunately I do. I need to be able to work on the go and I also do alot of work in-house at studios and sometimes need my own gear. So unfortunately laptop is a must for me. I am not too worried about it not being ideal. My pc at the moment is no beast. All I am worried about is that the laptop will be worse. As long as it is as good or better than my current pc its fine!

Cheers

[Graham Quince]

I’ve always worked on laptops with AE and sometimes wish I had a desktop. I used to have a beast of an HP Pavillion laptop which weighed about the same as a desktop and the performance matched a colleague’s dual-core.

When it died, I got an ASUS N80V and until I upgraded the software to Win7 64bit and AE CS5 it really, really struggled with AE. I frequently had crashes when running XP, 3GB RAM and AE CS3. The laptop has an NVidia GeForce 9300 and I had to disable OpenGL to get any sort of stability. Almost every time I rendered, I would have to save, shut down AE, reopen it and then render.

But like I said, since upgrading to CS5 and Win7 64bit, everything seems better. I also have to use a laptop. My only suggestion would be to check out the laptops sold as gaming machines, at least they’ll have a top-spec graphics card.

Totally agree with Dave’s other points, ad I’d also add in a second monitor. I missed my larger screen resolution and when I added a second monitor at my desk it did help organise my screen space. Of course, you miss it all the more when you’re away from it 🙂

Graham

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