Laptop for Vegas Video Pro 12?

drmathprog wrote on 2/10/2013, 7:40 AM

I know the bang-for-buck is much better for home-built Windows PCs, but I'm wondering about the technical aspects of using an upscale laptop. Is that technically feasible from a processing and storage standpoint.
Although they are quite pricey compared to home built desktops, a Puget Systems laptop like this one: http://www.pugetsystems.com/nav/traverse/pro/customize.php?sys_id=61
or an ADK built laptop like this one: http://www.adkvideoediting.com/systems/update.cfm
seem to be targeted at this market.

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bigrock wrote on 2/10/2013, 6:37 PM

I use an MSI GT70 Gaming Laptop almost exclusively. It has Core I7, 16 gig memory, 17.3 1080P nonglare screen, two hard drives and an Nvidia 660 (or higher) GPU. Cost me $1600 and I have run Vegas and it for hundreds of hours prolly close to 500 videos so far. Highly recommended by me, big bang for the buck.

deusx wrote on 2/10/2013, 9:06 PM

Both Puget and ADK use Clevo laptops and I have 3 of those ( 2 of those in your link ).

They are fast, excellent and have caused no problems other than firewire malfunctioning on one.

If you can get one of those with a 95% gamut matte screen you'll have the best laptop you can buy under $4000 and will cost you less than $2000 ( 15" version )

These guys sell those options ( same laptop ) https://www.mythlogic.com/configure.php?id=106

and sager sells the same laptop http://www.sagernotebook.com/index.php?page=product_info&model_name=NP9150-S

Buy from whomever you feel most comfortable buying, it's the same laptop and you can customize it, but I don't think you can get higher gamut screens from ADK and Puget. Stock screens on these are usually good anyway, but they have been known to change them from time to time. To me it's worth paying extra $100 and getting a better screen.

The MSI bigrock mentions, I think also has matte high gamut option. Not sure, but I know there was an MSI gaming laptop with those options somewhere.

drmathprog wrote on 2/11/2013, 1:27 PM

Thanks. I wasn't aware that many of the retailers are selling the same rebranded hardware. It looks like Sager might be the way to go, but the MSI is pretty nice also.

drmathprog wrote on 2/12/2013, 7:44 AM

Do any of these notebook video chips (various Radeon or GeForce ) support the Vegas Pro 12 GPU capability, or are they CPU-only?