I'm thinking about replacing my five year-old Acer laptop and wondered what other people use for mobile editing?
I have several customers that require me to edit photos and video on site, and whilst my current PC laptop (i7 4702MQ, 16GB, GTX760M, SSD) can cope with HD editing it starts to struggle with extra layers of text and effects applied.
Dell seem to do some high spec laptops, though not cheap.
I'm using Vegas Pro 15 at the moment and in the UK.
A couple of weeks ago, I bought a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 with a 512GB SSD and a 2GB video card (40% off during the Christmas sales). But Dell almost always have sales of various kinds, and the next variant was a similar offer but only with a 258GB SSD but with a 4GB video card - and a lower 30% discount as I recall, but overall more expensive than what I bought.
Doing a rough edit on the Inspiron using VP16 with 4K footage from a Samsung Galaxy S8 and a GoPro Black 5 seemed quite acceptable, though without any FX at all. I still use my 4 years old + Dell XPS desktop for all the rest of the editing challenges as that is where all the 3rd party FX packages are installed. I would think that HD editing would be even better.
Overall, I am happy with the results with 4K on the new Inspiron. My research suggested that the Inspiron 7000 is the closest you can get to an XPS, but at a lower cost than XPS.
My laptop from signature edits wel for me , even 4 K footage from my GoPro 5, no problem with all Vegas versions from 10 and till 16 I had installed for demos.
Now I use VPro 15 and 16 and VMS Pl 14 and 15 all latest updates.
Starting those programs with the NVidia GPU and also use that one for hardware acceleration of most OFX plugins of Vegas and Third party
Always the newest Windows 10, Nvida GPU drivers, Intel drivers for his GPU.
I am able to use the fast QSV and NVENC options renders to my favorite FHD 50p Magix AVC (and HEVC) codecs.
The new 17" Dell XPS is getting high marks for good speed and screen quality.
Thanks for all the replies. In the end I went for a Chillblast laptop, 15.6 screen, i7 8750, 32Gb, GTX 1050 ti mobile. I've installed VP16 and it handles 4K clips from my Panasonic HC X1 with ease (no proxies).
Congratulations!