Laptop for CS6 and Video Editing (if it's even possible)

bluetulip · 28 Sep 2014 at 15:40

Hi everyone (newbie here) :confused:

Please can someone advise which laptop is best for photo and video editing. I'm very mobile so it would have to be a laptop for now until I get round to building a PC :/

I know that the majority would say get a mac but I would like to stay clear of Apple...sooo are there any windows laptops that can nearly match a mac?

I have been looking online and so far I know that graphics card, screen and CPU is a must...i.e I7 etc but there are so many that I'm just getting confused

Ideally I would like one that has upgradable ram and £800 is my budget, maybe £900. As you can imagine I have nearly broke the bank with PS!

Really hope someone can help

Kind regards

K

OhEsEcks · 28 Sep 2014 at 16:16

Clevo. You can spec everything you want from the screen resolution and panel manufacturer to the CPU, GPU, RAM and more. It allows you to skimp in certain areas and put the savings towards components you need.

OCUK carried some Clevo models under the OCUK Professional brand. Though they're no longer on the site. And they seemed to be pre-configured (in that you couldn't spec your own components).

Gigabyte (and others) have rebranded Clevo (and other ODM) gaming laptops as their own in the past and I'm nearly 100% certain the GIGABYTE P15F listed on the OCUK site is a Clevo rebrand. But again, it's pre-configured, so you can't spec the componentry. Asus are the only "big brand" company that most would be aware of who ODM their own laptops.

bluetulip · 28 Sep 2014 at 18:25

Brilliant thank you for your reply. I will have a look at these

Just out of curiosity, do you think I would be better off getting a Surface Pro 3 so I can use the laptop as a drawing tablet? I am new to illustrating and rather than pay 1600 for a tablet maybe I could go in for the SP3?

OhEsEcks · 28 Sep 2014 at 18:34

I've never used a Surface and I'm no artist, so in that regards any opinion I have would be useless. The only drawing tablet I've ever used was a cheap Wacom Bamboo.

There is a "Show us your art" thread in General Discussion, where you'll more than likely going to get more informative replies from guys that are doing digital work.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18265708

bluetulip · 28 Sep 2014 at 18:55

Thanks again!

I've just posted there, hopefully I can get some good advice

Combat squirrel · 30 Sep 2014 at 14:43

I was in the market for exactly this, in short get anything thats a true quad core i7 processor, 16gb ram if possible and 2 hard drives, i got a 512gb SSD and 2TB HDD........got the laptop for £650 new and upgradded the ram seperatly and the drives etc..........you are likely to just about get an ivy bridge i7 quad which is fine, there is no point going way more than this as the performance improvement is limited, oh has a 700 series nvidia chip as well for cuda.