Laptop Help!

[Maijo]

Greetings Pavilion friends!

I'm about to customize and order my first laptop from HP for school. Thing is, next year I hope to start film school, so I need some advice from anyone who knows on what specs I would need to max out my video editing capabilities.

I just need to know recommended:

-Processor
-Memory
-Graphics Card


Please help! I don't want to make an uninformed decision.

(Highwind, I'm looking at you, big guy!!)

[DK]

Re: Laptop Help!

Greetings Pavilion friends!

I'm about to customize and order my first laptop from HP for school. Thing is, next year I hope to start film school, so I need some advice from anyone who knows on what specs I would need to max out my video editing capabilities.

I just need to know recommended:

-Processor
-Memory
-Graphics Card


Please help! I don't want to make an uninformed decision.

(Highwind, I'm looking at you, big guy!!)

You could get a much more capable desktop machine for the same price that you'd be getting a laptop. If you absolutely must you need to consider what software you are going to be using but either way you're going to neat a really good processor and lots of ram. Video Editing as I'm sure you know is extremely resource consuming. Go with good ram, Intel processor and an Nvidia card. What are you going to be capturing with? Is it just flash memory then you don't have any other hardware concerns but if the school provides DV cameras or whatever you will need to consider that.

Or really cut to the chase and get a mac workstation with two widescreen monitors~

[Maijo]

Re: Laptop Help!

I'll be using Adobe Premiere from CS4 and capturing with a regular old DV firewire.

I need to get the laptop because I will be using it for regular use as well as video editing, and I'll want to bring it to class everyday. And please no one suggest Macs. I've worked on Macs and I genuinely don't prefer them to PCs for video editing.

Thanks for your help! Any more opinions? They're all greatly appreciated.

[John Mora]

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Maybe an Apple laptop would work. Aren't they supposed to be good with artsy-type editing stuff?

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[Red Dragon]

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Maybe an Apple laptop would work. Aren't they supposed to be good with artsy-type editing stuff?

And please no one suggest Macs. I've worked on Macs and I genuinely don't prefer them to PCs for video editing.

Anyhow, whats your budget look like? I dont really know about video editing (I just use my laptop for coding) But I imagine that a gig of memory, 256mb video ram (maybe a little much), Intel core Duos are ok as well, would work.

Ok so it may be a little beefy. My laptop is an older model, it only has 15mb of Video Ram, i think way less than 56MB of ram, and a really old processor and it runs most editing programs just fine, however in my case the hardest program I use to edit with is Photoshop or Dreamweaver.

Oh and since you are video editing, you are going to want to get a ton of harddrive space.

It all depends on your budget really.

[BeeZee]

Re: Laptop Help!

Absolutely get a Mac. I know what you said. Get one anyway.

[DK]

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One gig of RAM will not be even close to enough, I'd recommend 4. Really to get a competent package in a laptop the mac would be best but no it isn't absolutely recommended but you're going to be digging into some weird techy crap to get a pc laptop running that good.

[Maijo]

Re: Laptop Help!

Absolutely get a Mac. I know what you said. Get one anyway.

I've edited this past year all on a desktop Mac and I never preferred it.