What NLE Brand Laptop?

jajack71

jajack71

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What's the best brands NLE laptop is the best for editing run and gun or long form editing? I'm not interested in Mac at all. Please share. I will be using Edius.
 
I got a loaded Dell ME6600 workstation laptop this past summer and am very pleased with it. Probably too much power for what I do (vroom!!) but I can multitask with no lag. Can carry and edit in the field but also have external drives for in-house work. Workstations have a heavier frame and are more solidly built. i7 quad processor/64 bit.

Dell works...Alien...Lenovo...main thing to look for are processor and RAM...I loaded as much RAM in as I could afford (16gb...my goal of 32gb was way out of budget).
 
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Oops...nearly forgot a biggie. Make sure the media/graphics card in the computer is compatible with your editing program...and go for the best card you can afford.
 
If you are doing daily turn stuff and nothing long form consider adding in a 128 or 256 gig ssd. Won't help with render times but will help with everything else, including not thrashing a spinning disk while working in the field.
 
Thanks this is helpful. I was looking at Asus 17 inch with heavy ram and 560 radeom graphic card. It's a higher end gaming laptop but wasn't sure if it was good for long forms and or dily turns. I will look at the Dell and compare.
 
I have a Toshiba Satellite running CS5 and have had no issues. It came with a 5400rpm HD that I had to upgrade to 7200rpm and I expanded the RAM from 4GB to 8GB. Works great.
 
jajack71 said:
Thanks this is helpful. I was looking at Asus 17 inch with heavy ram and 560 radeom graphic card. It's a higher end gaming laptop but wasn't sure if it was good for long forms and or dily turns. I will look at the Dell and compare.
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Im using Aurora/News Edit and you'd be surprised how low the specs are on some of these. Just cutting DV25 however.
 
And from what I understand the graphics card doesn't make much of a difference unless you are using adobe and utilizing the mercury playback engine. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
 
I have a Lenovo W700ds, and it does a pretty good job. It's big, clunky, and heavy, but it also has a second screen, a second hard drive, a small tablet, and a built-in color calibrator. It's great for short video, but not so much for longer format mostly because of hard drive performance. Of course, you can expand and add on external drives, but then it gets difficult to cart around and deal with.

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And from what I understand the graphics card doesn't make much of a difference unless you are using adobe and utilizing the mercury playback engine. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
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This is correct. I have a mobile QuadroFX 2700m card in mine, but I wouldn't opt for it again if given the chance. You need a card with 640MB+ of memory for the hardware acceleration to kick in, and a good Nvidia gaming card will work just as well for a fraction of the price. My quadro card helps when I have to work on 3D modeling, but no NLE that I'm aware of for the PC utilizes the video card otherwise.

Another decent brand is Sager, which are re-badged Clevo machines. The Clevo laptops also show up as Alienware machines too, but the Sager brand is far less expensive. They're sold through boutiques like Pctorque.com

As for the SSD suggestion, they're great for loading your applications, but don't use them as a working drive that needs to be read/written to a lot. Like all current solid state memory, each memory cell has a limited number of read/write cycles. After the threshold is reached, the drive's performance suffers, or it will fail. The old-fashioned spinning platter drive is still the best bet for storing and working with your video.
 
I have an older HP laptop....Does the job

Features that you should look into is an express slot, firewire(?), esata port, card reader, and a HDMI/VGA.

The express can be used to add firewire, or to read SxS cards. Firewire is old, but can output video in a pinch. With HDMI.VGA, add a second monitor, or conect to a HDTV or a group showing. The built-in card readers are fast!
 
I would also suggest getting a full HD rez screen and usb 3.0 ports or estata as mentioned. Win 7 pro will let you add XP emulation if needed.
 
Thanks I ended up going with Asus 74 GS Series. I bumped up the GB from 8 to 16. 2.2 GHZ processors. 500 gb dual drives and I purchase a stand alone back uphard drive.

I will be running Edius 6.0 I did add Windows Pro.
 
jajack71 said:
Thanks I ended up going with Asus 74 GS Series. I bumped up the GB from 8 to 16. 2.2 GHZ processors. 500 gb dual drives and I purchase a stand alone back uphard drive.

I will be running Edius 6.0 I did add Windows Pro.
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Did you get a Honda 2k quiet generator to power that beast?
 
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