Laptop Reccomendations
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I'm looking to buy a laptop. Most likely I will pick one up used if I can. I I'm looking at gaming laptops mostly to use for video editing with Adobe Preimere Pro CS6, After Effect CS6 and DaVinci Resolve. It needs to have a Nvidia Discrete graphics card for CUDA acceleration. And the ability to have a decent amount of ram in it. Ideally I'd like the ASUS ROG G751JY but, It's a little more pricey than I'd like to spend. I'm planning on Selling my HP Pro X2 612 (core i5, 8GB RAM 256GB SSD) because I almost never use it as a tablet, so I'd like to use the cash I get from it plus preferably no more than $200-300 more. So Between $700-$900 on the used market for the laptop would be great (depending on how much I get for the HP Pro x2 612 with the dock and all).
I have had the Asus G51j a 3-4 years ago, It worked fine for video editing, but had issues with overheating and some odd graphics issues with artifacts in the screen (from overheating I think).
Any suggestions? It does not have to be an Asus
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I decided to just pick up the Asus G751. at $2,000 it's a lot more than I've ever spent on a windows machine but it's a power house. I decided the improved performance and ability to do on site work for the weekend productions is worth the extra cost. I used to spend easily that much on Macbook Pro's that had no where near the specs of this machine. I got it on amazon (sold by amazon) so if it has thermal issues you can bet it will go right back.
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http://www.adkvideoediting.com/laptop.asp
See you already bought one, but maybe this is one to stash for next time.
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I'll be curious to hear how it handles the heat issues. Every higher end laptop I've ever used has had heat related issues.
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If you like Acer, I've got an Acer V3 17.3" Laptop. (16g RAM, Nvidia umm... something or another w/4GB RAM). It works really nicely or playing games. Skyrim runs on Max settings without batting an eye.
I'm not sure about the CUDA stuff, but it does really nicely when ripping my DVDs to MP4 or ISO. It was about $1,300 with a square trade warranty and all.
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Let me get this helmet on, and a fire suit... Ok..
I have been really happy with my Macbook Pro...
Go ahead, let me have it.
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@s.hackleman said:
Let me get this helmet on, and a fire suit... Ok..
I have been really happy with my Macbook Pro...
Go ahead, let me have it.
I have one. Don't like it. Here are some of my concerns...
- It is slow. REALLY slow. Slower than several year old, 20% the cost HP laptops that I have.
- It's heavy. Way too heavy for a lot of travel.
- It's fragile. Bump anything and it dents. You have to seriously baby this thing.
- It overheats way too easily.
- The magnetic power cord can't hold itself in and if you don't set it up to be held in, it's own weight practically unplugs it.
- For an large laptop it lacks a lot of plugs that you would find handy to have.
- Crashes more than any other OS I've used since and including Windows XP. It seems to be equivalent to Windows 2000 in that regards.
- Battery life is really poor.
- Price
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@scottalanmiller said:
@s.hackleman said:
Let me get this helmet on, and a fire suit... Ok..
I have been really happy with my Macbook Pro...
Go ahead, let me have it.
I have one. Don't like it. Here are some of my concerns...
- It is slow. REALLY slow. Slower than several year old, 20% the cost HP laptops that I have.
- It's heavy. Way too heavy for a lot of travel.
- It's fragile. Bump anything and it dents. You have to seriously baby this thing.
- It overheats way too easily.
- The magnetic power cord can't hold itself in and if you don't set it up to be held in, it's own weight practically unplugs it.
- For an large laptop it lacks a lot of plugs that you would find handy to have.
- Crashes more than any other OS I've used since and including Windows XP. It seems to be equivalent to Windows 2000 in that regards.
- Battery life is really poor.
- Price
I have none of those issues with my MacBook Pro Late 2011 model. Well none except price.
- Battery life is great
- Crashes less than my Windows 8.1 machine
- Power cable works perfectly as designed dot hold itself in
- I recently had an overheating issue and they replaced the fan. Prior to that, it has never overheated
- I have dropped this thing a lot. Nothing is broken. Minor dents on the bottom, no more than I would expect on any laptop with a metal case
- The MBP is not designed to be light weight. That is what the MacBook and MacBook Air are designed more towards.
- Applications open when I launch them. Nothing feels slow. It was slow when I had Parallels runnings Windows also, but resource monitoring showed that to be HDD. Changed to an SSD and no more issues there.
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@JaredBusch said:
- Battery life is great
Mine is a 2015 model. How much battery life are you getting? I get 2.5 hours tops. My 2012 HP that I got for $900 goes like eight hours.
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at 4 years old, I get 4-5 hours
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@JaredBusch said:
- I have dropped this thing a lot. Nothing is broken. Minor dents on the bottom, no more than I would expect on any laptop with a metal case
Yes, it's not Apple's metal case design, it is that it is a metal case that is the issue. This has taught me to get plastic from here on in. More durable, cheaper and lighter. Win/win/win.
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@JaredBusch said:
at 4 years old, I get 4-5 hours
Wow, that has really changed. I know an office full of people on the same model as me and sub three hours is standard.
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Is the MBP designed for portability or as a mobile workstation? That makes a huge difference on battery life.
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Why are people buying MBPs? Most people don't need MBPs for performance, a MBA (Got one
) works wonders for most tasks. -
I use a MBP because I run a full Windows development session at times.
When purchased, I was also supposed to start learning Apple's language for iOS development, but that changed do to client changes. -
@Dashrender said:
Is the MBP designed for portability or as a mobile workstation? That makes a huge difference on battery life.
It's a mobile workstation. The Air is the super portable one. But it feels much less portable to me than some of its competitors that I have used. All laptops have portability as some portion of their functionality. Otherwise, it would be a desktop
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The display of an MBA might be to small for a full time task driver.
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@Breffni-Potter said:
Why are people buying MBPs? Most people don't need MBPs for performance, a MBA (Got one
) works wonders for most tasks.Full development environment needs to be able to be fired up. It's huge. An Air won't even run it
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For the non programmer. What is a development environment?
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Nearly always I would prefer an MBA and I'm going to push for one at my next refresh. I need the big screen, though, so that is an issue. Trying to figure out how to deal with that when mobile.
