Best Laptop specification for video editing?

Lee-James wrote on 11/16/2025, 8:05 AM

Hello,

With Black Friday coming up, I wanted to research a new laptop for my 23 year old son who is into video editing. He does not use Vegas (think he uses the student version of Adobe Premier) and with him now doing his Masters, he is into Film & TV and editing video, so I am trying to find a new, more powerful device (not Apple) where he can edit quickly and easily. I was thinking 1TB SSD, 64GB Ram, at least an Intel i7, i9 or AMD Ryzen 99503DX with a decent NVidia card with 11GB of video ram, but you chaps might have other ideas.

There does not seem to be anything like this spec to buy off the peg so to speak, so if you chaps have any comments or ideas/suggestions on what to buy, I would be really grateful.

Thanks for your time,

regards,

 

Lee

Comments

RogerS wrote on 11/16/2025, 3:10 PM

There's no best laptop but you can see a few benchmarked in my signature. I'm happy with my Asus ZenBook Pro.

Lee-James wrote on 11/16/2025, 8:13 PM

Ok,

Thanks for replying. Can I get your opinion on this Laptop? . . .

https://www.hp.com/gb-en/shop/product.aspx?id=B68SSEA&opt=ABU&sel=NTB&jumpid=cs_gb_go_st_mc_cm018581_cv_px_com_nb&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=GB_PS_PMAX_NoA_lapt_Comm_GoogAd_OPEX_ENG_CM018581&addisttype=xpla&kw=&adid=&infinity=ict2~net~gaw~cmp~GB_PS_PMAX_NoA_lapt_Comm_GoogAd_OPEX_ENG_CM018581~ag~~ar~~kw~~mt~&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22593038077&gclid=Cj0KCQiAiebIBhDmARIsAE8PGNIHbjUfaG0q9hCUGCOP3rgBnWPBOhARmhInXc2KvmWP46Cmc1n3o8MaAsOeEALw_wcB

I would appreciate your thoughts.

Thank you,

 

Lee

 

RogerS wrote on 11/18/2025, 5:42 PM

This looks like a workstation with a price tag to match. CPU and ram are fine. The GPU is only the "integrated" (on-CPU) Intel Arc which will be underpowered for video editing. I'd keep searching and get one with a real GPU.

Lee-James wrote on 11/19/2025, 5:58 AM

This looks like a workstation with a price tag to match. CPU and ram are fine. The GPU is only the "integrated" (on-CPU) Intel Arc which will be underpowered for video editing. I'd keep searching and get one with a real GPU.

Thanks for that, I was thinking the same thing. However, workstation or not, I want to be able to try and get something that is more than my son needs. Maybe overkill but it should last for a while. It does seem that there is not much "off the peg", so I might have to try and customise. Someone has suggested I look at Lenovo, a brand that I had not really considered because they seemed to look like just IPads! But I will look closer now.

Thank you for your thoughts

regards,

 

Lee

RogerS wrote on 11/19/2025, 9:27 AM

If video editing is the goal, computers that are suitable for gaming are good options as they prioritize GPU power and cooling. The Asus Zenbook Pro and ProArt lines are worth considering as are competitors from other brands.