Reliable high powered Laptop for Vegas Pro 17 and beyond

Stratman wrote on 2/18/2020, 4:36 PM

Going to finally upgrade my older Surface book 1 (NVIDIA performance base) in the next couple of months.

Waiting to see what exactly the top spec Surface book 3 will have when its released in April. It seems the top spec Surface book 3's will have 32GB, NVIDIA GTX 1060 max Q or Ti or an option with NVIDIA QUADRA , Ice lake or even Tiger lake CPU. It will be interesting to see if they offer a 4K screen in the top spec, although I am not hopeful.

Other contenders are DELL XPS and Asus StudioBook(s)

I liked the look of the top spec Razor Blade 15 and Razor or Blade Studio but took it off the list because of what I have read re their support and hardware issues.

My preference is a native 4K wide gamut touch screen 15" , stick with NVIDIA and Intel, be able to edit and render 4K, Thunderbolt 3

I'm seeking feedback from Vegas Pro community here and from those who might already using the Dell XPS , Asus, Blade etc Or any other suggestions. I travel a lot so mobile grunt is important.

Also, would Vegas Pro actually benefit from NVIDA Quadra over a GTX 1060Ti & GTX 2060 etc

Looking forward to any feedback and suggestions..

Comments

rraud wrote on 2/18/2020, 5:39 PM

I have a XPS 9550 laptop with a GTX 960m, SSHD and 32GB RAM which previews well and renders fast. The 15" high res display results in pin head sized toolbar icons. So I neeed to set the DPI to 175% to make them larger for my aging eyes, unfortunately the high DPI cuts off a the bottom of a few windows that cannot be scrolled like the custom render dialog box (an occasional annoyance). Probably ok at 125% if a user has perfect vision and steady hands.

fifonik wrote on 2/18/2020, 6:57 PM

4K 15"screen? Wow. For my eyes even 2K is a bit too much for 27"

fr0sty wrote on 2/18/2020, 9:13 PM

It's pricey, but the ASUS Zenbook Pro is perfect for video editing with its second screen and nice internal hardware.

Stratman wrote on 2/18/2020, 10:00 PM

It's pricey, but the ASUS Zenbook Pro is perfect for video editing with its second screen and nice internal hardware.

Zenbook Pro looks good and is not out of my budget, but I was wondering how Vegas and other software would handle would handle the 2nd screen and if that would lead to driver other potential software issues?

fr0sty wrote on 2/18/2020, 10:18 PM

Considering just about everything in Vegas is dockable, you should be able to easily configure it to fit both screens just fine. I imagine the color grading panel would fit quite nicely on that bottom screen, with room up for the timeline and preview, or when not grading, have another layout where the timeline goes at the bottom and the preview screen takes up most of the top.

The touch screens and stylus would open some interesting possibilities.

Stratman wrote on 5/3/2020, 4:03 AM

Thought would let you know I ended up going for the new Gigabyte Aero 15 4K OLED, 10th Gen intel I7-10875H CPU, 32GB RAM, RTX 2070 Super Max Q 8gb. I put an extra 1TB M.2 NVME in the spare internal slot. Overall this laptop seemed good bang for buck. I loaded Vegas Pro 17 build 421 and have had no issues so far. I notice the RTX GPU is being used most of the time to some level throughout the Vegas prorgram. Nice to be able to do everything easily natively in 4K including preview and still have plenty of headroom for other tasks.

Howard-Vigorita wrote on 5/3/2020, 2:16 PM

@Stratman nice.I understand it comes with Studio Drivers preinstalled but didn't know it was shipping yet. Sounds like it's almost perfec. 😀