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Needs Laptop for high-end video editing.

post #1 of 13
6/11/04 at 5:11am
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Hey guys I've been browsing the board for a few days trying to find a definite answer to my problem. Well I do some video editing (some sound) using Avid and at times Premiere Pro (on desktop). Now what I need is a laptop with at least 15" LCD, Centrino (yes i do need the battery life, plenty of times i work out of airplanes and airports on the way home or work), all the S-video/TV out/in ports I can get, the usual usb and firewire stuff, and a flash memory reader wouldnt hurt... maybe a good ATI card too, I like games too, a kid at heart. I've taken a look around and have a hard time finding any centrino that will meet my needs. Maybe I should wait a month?

And yes i do actively work in the film industry (TV too) so its not soccer dad home movies.

thanks guys and girls.
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post #2 of 13
6/11/04 at 9:57am
hmmmm, im not sure if centrino will give you enough power
i would recommend the acer 1712, in that thread there is someone doing video editing on it
you can get an external battery maybe, its expensive though
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post #3 of 13
6/11/04 at 11:20am
The pentium-M (part of Centrino tech.) actually does very well for video editing due to a larger cache then Northwood p-4's. Also clock for clock they perform better then p-4's. If you want to spend the $$$ to get an extreme eddition you could, but like any p-4 system say goodbye to battery life.
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post #4 of 13
6/11/04 at 2:22pm
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money isn't much of an issue in this case. I considered the Sony VAIO A 17 inch, but the AV dock for it is too much of a hassle to carry around for 4000 dollars
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post #5 of 13
6/11/04 at 7:50pm
Of course my reccomendation would be Powerbook .... but, assuming you're looking into a PC platform, best I can say for absolute power would be Sager 8790... But if battery life is an issue, forget that.....

In a PC platform with a good mix of battery / power.... I don't know...

But if you're "serious" into Video Editing and not into "Dad's Soccer Videos" I still say invest the "serious" money, go Powerbook....

Just my .02
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post #6 of 13
6/11/04 at 8:03pm
BTO An Apple Powerbook with the 5400rpm hard drive and 128mb vram ATI Radeon 9700 graphic card from the Apple Online Store.
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post #7 of 13
6/11/04 at 9:10pm
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I have a Powerbook already for my FC4 stuff. I need a PC one to take on the road with my Avid and games and other proggies n stuff.


thanks for the recc though.
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post #8 of 13
6/13/04 at 1:36pm
Tough looking for the right compromise, I was in the same boat.
In the end I went for the 8790 and sacrificed the battery life for the processor power, video card, and dual hard drives. Obviously she can be a bitch to cart around but I'm not dragging an extra hard drive with me and with the dual drive setup can separate my Audio/Video and program files for greater stability (especially with AVID). For high-end stuff as a freelancer the extra weight isn't as big issue an issue as I first thought and rendering is always going to chew up your battery life anyway.

hope you find what you're looking for, best of luck.
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post #9 of 13
6/13/04 at 1:38pm
forgot to edit my signature, running dual drives without RAID now, the lack of redundancy scared me.
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post #10 of 13
6/14/04 at 5:08am
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I might get the Asus W1000N or the Go-L New Yorker.. neither of the two are yet available.. they will be in July.

Any comments?
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post #11 of 13
6/24/04 at 12:32am
the go-l seems to be way overpriced. I'm sure you could find it cheaper.
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post #12 of 13
6/24/04 at 2:24pm
Becareful when you get it from www.go-l.com. There are lots of posts on this forum warning you from buying things at go-l. A guy in this forum Meddude actually bought a laptop from them and didn't get what he purchased. They advertise things that does not exist. Their Hollywood gold is basically 8790 with a price of 7999 for "3 HDDs". I got mine for 3200 with dual HDDs running at RAID 0. You do the math if one more HDD worth that amount? I'm not even sure if they could fit 3 HDD in there. hmmm.
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post #13 of 13
6/24/04 at 3:17pm
HP nc8000 can have an additional hard drive in the multibay, for a maximum of 160GB hard disk space with two 80 GB hard disks. It would be my choice for video editing without external hard drives. But for serious video editing, you'll need more hard disk space than 160 GB, and external hard drives are way to go then.
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