New laptop recommendations

[Zoobeef]

I bought my laptop in January 2007 so as you may guess it's a little dated now.

The mrs wants to get a new one to use as shes going back to college so will be using it for normal office based stuff so her requirement spec isnt too high. Although she doesnt want a small screen, wants a decent battery and good speakers.

Now, other than plugging into cars or word processing I use mine to process my videos from trackdays and racing, which is usually an overnight job as it's pretty slow.

So, I'd like it to be able to do that a little quicker and be reasonably future proof.

What's good currently on the market and for what prices? £5-800 a reasonable price bracket?

Cheers!

[anonymous-user]

For processing videos (Powerdirector?) Buy a laptop with a discreet graphics card . It'll speed it up no end as the software can often use the GPU to significantly speed up the rendering. Failing that, having a decent (non budget) CPU makes a big difference too.

My desktop is an Intel i7, no slouch . When I render in Powerdirector it takes around 3 to 4 mins using my GTX 970 GPU for accelerated rendering. When it can't use the GPU (usually after a driver update) the same render takes around 20 mins.

Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 26th January 01:50

[Zoobeef]

RogerDodger said:

For processing videos (Powerdirector?) Buy a laptop with a discreet graphics card . It'll speed it up no end as the software can often use the GPU to significantly speed up the rendering. Failing that, having a decent (non budget) CPU makes a big difference too.

My desktop is an Intel i7, no slouch . When I render in Powerdirector it takes around 3 to 4 mins using my GTX 970 GPU for accelerated rendering. When it can't use the GPU (usually after a driver update) the same render takes around 20 mins.

Edited by RogerDodger on Sunday 26th January 01:50

Cheers!

Given a 20 minute video using racerender to overlay one on the other currently takes about 12 hours then either sounds great haha!