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Searching for the perfect AE laptop
Hi everyone, I need a very powerful laptop for after effects and I’m having a very hard time finding the perfect one. I use really heavy effects. I can spend up to $3000 and I want RAM previews to load as fast as possible. Any ideas?
what do you guys think of this laptop from https://www.adkvideoediting.com/laptop.asp with the following specs
Case ADK – 8600 HW: 17.3″ 1920 x 1080 Full HD (16:9) LED Backlit LCD (Matte) Backlite
Power Supply Included
Processor Intel – i7 4800MQ 2.7GHz 6M cache Quad Core with HT (turbo to 3.7GHz)
Memory ADK – 32Gig (4x8gig) 1600 11-11-11-28 Sodimm Lifetime Warranty
Operating System Microsoft – Windows 7 Pro 64 bit OEM
Recovery Software Paragon Backup & Recovery 12 Suite with ADK recovery Flash Drive.
OS/Programs Drive Samsung – 256 GB 840 Pro 2.5″ Internal Solid State Drive
Source Drive Western Digital – 750G 7200RPM Hard Drive 16meg cache 5 yr warranty
Render Drive None
Cache/Storage None
Removable Media None
External Raid none
Raid Controller None
FW/USB/e-Sata None
DVD-RW/BDR Included CD-RW/DVD read/write
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870MX w/6GB GDDR5
Video I/O None
NIC Included Wired 1GB and Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC and Blue Tooth 4.0
Mouse None
Warranty Standard 1 yr Parts and Labor Lifetime Tech Support
Converter None
Audio Interface None
Audio Software NONE
NLE Software NONE
Plug-ins/DSP NONE
Laptop
8600 HW Price: $2,832.00
Description: 15 and 17 inch 4nd Gen Intel (Haswell) Quad Core i5, i7 Laptop. up to 32 gig ram and 4 internal HDDs, on board TEXAS INSTRUMENTS FIREWIRE 400can anyone recommend something better for around the same price or is this a really good system?
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Are you willing to go mac? After I did, I never went back 😉
My Macbook Pro 2.3ghz i7 with 16gb of 1600MHz DDR3 and solid state drive is a beast. Loving the retina display.
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Sincerely,
George
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[shane Scott] “can anyone recommend something better for around the same price or is this a really good system?”
That’s a pretty good one because it supports a lot of RAM which is great for AE. You might want to check the HP Z-Books (I have the older Elitebook, it’s great.) and the Dell mobile workstation line too.
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no im not willing to go mac haha
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does this graphics card look good? it has a GeForce GTX 870MX but im not really seeing any info online about it, only the 870M. are they very similar?
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actually now im really considering this msi (with i7-4900MQ), it looks PERFECT, what do you think? https://www.xoticpc.com/msi-gt70-dominatorpro888-p-6941.html?wconfigure=yes
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Well it has 3 128GB SSDs which is 384gb PLUS 1TB 7200RPM (SATA III – 6GB/s).. I’v been surviving on just a terabyte and no SSDs my entire life. And the 880M isn’t on the list of approved cards but they say the 880’s a rebranded 780M which is on the list, also its brand new (maby they didnt add it yet). It should be fine right?
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Here’s a rundown on the new 800M –
https://www.anandtech.com/show/7834/nvidia-geforce-800m-lineup-battery-boost
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yep, according to that article the 880m is a slightly upgraded 780m, so i’m guessing it should work well..
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If you are sold on that config, the only thing I would suggest is upping the main harddrive to 240 or 256 gig. When you include OS, programs…128 might be tight.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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I’d get the highest cpu processor I can afford even if it means breaking the bank a bit (in this case, the i7 4930MX). Reason is that with laptops, you cannot upgrade the cpu later, and I doubt if the MSI is any different.
Thomas Leong
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