Planning to buy a new Asus Ryzen 9 laptop to run Vegas Pro!

studio-4 schrieb am 14.06.2021 um 07:07 Uhr

ASUS G17 3.3 GHz Ryzen 9:

I'm enjoying Vegas so much, I think I'm going to buy a new PC-laptop just so I can run Vegas Pro on the go! I've chosen the ASUS 17.3" G17 gaming laptop ("Eclipse Gray, 2021") for $1,799. And since I have a B+H credit card, they pay the sales tax and shipping, so it's $1,799 out-the-door! The on-board NVIDIA GPU seems rather impressive, and according to TechGage's CPU-benchmarks, the AMD Ryzens seem to come out on top in nearly every category. It's a brand-spankin' new product (shipping is still a few weeks' out), so all the components should be the latest tech.

The GPU: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 (8GB GDDR6) boasts some impressive reviews and seems like a lot more GPU than you can buy in a standalone PCIe card these days. It's got a whopping 8GB of on-board VRAM, plus it's the higher-bandwidth, GDDR6 RAM. The PCIe version of this card alone sells for up to $1,500 on eBay (thanks to the current GPU-craze), so it's almost like getting the laptop for free!

I also like the fact that it has a larger 17.3" screen. I really liked my old 2012 17" MacBook Pro, but Apple decided not to make any more laptops with large screens.

ASUS G17 specs:

• AMD 3.3GHz Ryzen 9 5900HX 8-Core CPU.
• 16GB DDR4 RAM.
• 1TB M.2 PCIe SSD.
• 17.3" 1920x1080 300Hz IPS-display.
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 (8GB GDDR6).

I don't do any gaming, and I'll only be working with 1080p-video (i.e., no 4K), so I think this system should serve nicely as a mobile NLE-platform—the only thing I wish it had is 32GB of RAM instead of just 16GB, so I'm hoping that will be "enough." Does anyone here with 16GB-rigs ever notice hitting the ceiling on anything within Vegas? My desktop machine is a Xeon 3.5GHz v3 quad-core with 32GB of ECC RAM (but with only a low-end AMD graphics card), and everything seems to run pretty smoothly.

Just like my desktop-PC, I plan to have a virgin-install and keep apps to the bare minimum: Vegas Pro 18 Edit, my library of third-party Vegas plug-ins, Sound Forge 14, and Microsoft Edge (i.e., in lieu of Chrome) . . . and that's it! I have a 27" iMac 5K Retina Core i7 with 40GB of RAM for my main DAW in my home studio, and a 15" MacBook Pro Core i7/16GB for mobile-computing, so a dedicated PC-laptop won't an issue at all for me.

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studio-4 schrieb am 03.07.2021 um 01:06 Uhr

@JN- @set :

Thanks, guys! I was secretly hoping all of you would say HitFilm's NLE sucks! (So that I could hang on to this awesome new toy.) A few nits: I find the keycap-typeface very difficult to read and the layout very unfamiliar (e.g., I am constantly mistyping every other word). Also, really missing full-sized cursor-keys. This laptop's surface has so much real-estate, I don't know why they made them mini-keys.

The touchpad is fairly responsive, and the two-finger gesture-control for right-clicking is actually a nice improvement. Unfortunately, its gesture-control in Vegas doesn't always work as desired (e.g., I would love it if a two-fingered swipe left or right would slide the timeline back and forth).

The changing backlight colors look pretty cool, but sometimes obfuscate function. That said, after reading a few Ryzen 5900HX reviews last night, this machine has me awed. Wasn't aware this was such a high-performance chip! I don't even have the 32GB sticks installed yet!

Vegas is running without a hitch. So far, extremely stable. Can't wait to see how it performs on some of HitFilm's more complex effects. Will probably buy the HitFilm/Ignite Pro package on sale in a few minutes, after I buy the $149 upgrade to Vegas Pro 18/19 Edit. Really looking forward to playing with its layer-compositing feature.

set schrieb am 03.07.2021 um 01:23 Uhr

Every NLE has their own surplus.

Maybe 'I have been comfortable with VEGAS Pro tool' is more precise word for me - and I'm just trying to create the best I can do with this tool, but of course I'm not limiting myself with only one tool.

JN- schrieb am 03.07.2021 um 01:27 Uhr

@studio-4 “I find the keycap-typeface very difficult to read and the layout very unfamiliar”

Check if theres a supplied app to allow switching off/changing the keyboard colours or selectively colouring individual keys. The latter I find very useful with my too small chiclet type laptop keys.