Thanks so much for the advice Mads.

I will get 32 GB of RAM and a fast external drive – I know it will be worth it, even though budget is a bit tight at the moment! Your ZBook machine sounds amazing BTW.

Thanks people of The Cow – I know I can always find answers from the industry pros here.

Best Regards,

Pete

Thank you so much for the advice Chris and Santanu!

I’m looking at getting a laptop configured by a company in South Africa that builds gaming machines (best bang-for-buck), and I’ll make sure that the specs you recommend are included in the build. I’m currently looking at different builds for the Lenovo Legion 5, and the HP Victus 16.

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Hi Creative Cow,

I’m wondering if anybody can answer a few questions I have about best practice for scratch disks, when using Premiere Pro and After Effects on a single SSD drive laptop.

I’ve been shopping around for a laptop to replace my desktop editing rig, as it’s getting a bit old (built in 2014). My question is; do I have to get a lapto…

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