New laptop But what is most important

[RemaL]

for video editing? a good CPU or Ram or Both ?

been looking at

http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/MSI_GE70_2PE_Apache...

http://www.chillblast.com/Chillblast-photo-oc-mobi...

any suggestions on whats best to look for? I'm going from a 5-6YO Desktop running Windows 8.1 AMD Phenom 2 x4 955 processor and 8 gig ram

really want something that's quicker for uploading and transferring video from memory's cars and editing family holidays and Go Pro vid from trackdays and days out etc..
plus the internet surfing. poss a few games

[RemaL]

great feedback. I was looking at a small SSD say 240GB and a 1TB or there abouts HD? worth going for this.

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thanks for that

thought on MSi as a maker? anyone had one?

narrowed it down to the MSI GS70 Stealth I hope

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abbotsmike said:

GPU encoding is still at the quick and dirty level. Great for fast renders, but not there for final cuts. For basic transcoding, CPU grunt wins out. No point in having less than 8GB RAM in general, and the most, fastest cores you can pay for!

Possibly a daft question, does it need to be a laptop?

In short yes it does. mainly as I have has a Windows desktop for many years. My daughters I3 £400 laptop is quikcer than my 5-6 years old gaming desktop. I'm not looking at the most expensive laptop out there just something I can use thats quicker than what I have to edit, transfer and record/encode etc....
I have 11GB files from a day out in my kit car. trackday at Silverstone in May. Le mans in June. Family Holiday in Aug etc... so wish to be able to sit in comfort and just make good vids rather than sitting next to a HUGE desktop and screen. I mainly use my Desktop now when I can get onto it for the video editing.
Just thinking it's about time I gave a laptop a go for what I want and see how I get on.

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Jinx said:

from dabs

and bobs your uncle.

Triple m-sata in raid 2 plus HDD for storage - decent CPU and GPu for all you encoding needs.

nice but a little over budget

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cheers again Mike

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mikef said:

RemaL said:

cheers again Mike

I can't remember the last time I loaded a DVD into a laptop

I can today. And do often. I know I can add a external DVD etc..... but I cannot help myself spec a lappy that comes out at £1700 plus