Video Editing Laptop 2.2K

I want to Customize laptop that will mostly use for video editing in After Effects, Maya, Avid, Cinema 4D.
My budget currently stands at $ 2200, a little flexible.

I thought about this specification:
17.3 "Full HD (1920x1080) 16:9 LED Backlit Super Clear Glossy Widescreen
Intel ® Core ™ i7-740QM
nVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M
8GB Ram
IC Diamond Thermal Compound
SATA II 500GB 3GB / s 7200 (I have 2TB of hard disk with eSATA entry, so that'll do)
Intel ® Centrino ® Ultimate-N 6300

But the budget is beyond my abilities, and found it difficult to understand is there are significant differences between the different models of the Sager and Clevo If I choose the components of the computer.
I know there are differences in the screens, at the various entrances, weight, etc..
But I did not understand why the price gaps are so large.

I would appreciate your help in assembling the specification.

Thanks in advance

 

hi ice and welcome to nbr
clevo is the make and sager are a reseller like XoticPC and powernotebooks etc. you can see the full guide HERE.
if the above spec is taken from sager website shop around as the prices do vary. i recommend checking out the above 2 i mentioned.

 

This setup is close to my current set up on my Sager 8850, all I can say is that I love this machine and I highly reccommend it!

 

4gb of ram will be enough for now and even cutting the graphics card down to the nvidia 285 or ati 5870 will still give you a beast of a laptop and save you a lot of money.

is this the model youve stated above HERE which is the updated G875.

this is the G870 with the other options of graphics card HERE
the model numbers vary from company to company so im not sure what sager call theirs.

 

inf your doing alot of rendering on your laptop and not on a desktop, look at swapping the video over to Quadro or Fire Pro board, gaming is the same as their Direct X counterparts but a few HUNDRED percent faster in renders in Maya and Cinema especially

 

I would get rid of that GTX480M and either swap it with a Nvidia Quadro FX 2800M or the 5870 / 285M.

 

if the OP is doing alot of maya agreed toss the 480 and get the FX 2800, too bad the FirePro M7820 was not available.

 

The price of the FX 2800 too dear to me, and I see no reason to limit on RAM if I'm not over budget ....

This specification seems to me most suited my needs::


Do you have any recommendations for changes?

Thanks for your help

 

I would still say cut to ram and add a second Hd and save some dough but thats just the cheap side of me

Very capable machine I owned one and I loved it

 

Isn't a desktop cpu better in this (rendering) regard ? or is the GPU more important ?

 

Absolutely. If your main use of the computer is rendering, video editing, in general; number crunching types of programs, a desktop Core i7 prosessor is far superior to a mobile Core i7, and is also more important than the gpu, in many (most) scenarios. I think the topic starter should look at a D900F instead, or even the coming X7200.

 

CPU is important unless he is doing rendering in which you need both

either way its best to get a decent cPU and GPU



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here you go you really might what to check this out

 

Not that true; HD video rendering puts much more load on your CPU and memory than your graphics card. I think that ReDuNZL is right, you should check out a system built on the D900F.

 

Yup, D900f with core i7 980x and FX3800 with 12gb of ram, should be the best choice.
The best theoretical choice would be the same as above but instead of the FX3800 would be the mobility radeon 5870 Fire Pro version, aka FirePro M7820. But i have only seen that on some workstation HP laptops and no where else. Heck, the normal 5870 isn't even available with the D900f, let alone the the M7820.

 

i can only comment about AE cs5
an i7 740qm would be too slow for this program.
get tons of ram (8gig min) 2 hdds and most importantly a fast cpu, at least a 920xm or as others said a desktop cpu if you will use this preoffesionally.
AE only uses the gpu to accelerate certain effects during previews via opengl. iirc it doesnt support rendering of the final video output. also all adobe cs5 products obly support nvidia cards

 

rendering = CPU

After Effects, Maya, Avid, Cinema 4D.= GPU as well

 

yes, and for Maya, Avid and 4D skip the consumer GPU's its quite fun to show 2 laptops with almost exactly the same spec but one having a pro GPU doing renders

 

oor take a consumer GPU and flash it to a professional card

 

cant seem to do it anymore, buggers now disable some hardware pathways on the GPU and board level now ... I used to do that daily on days gone by but have been unsucessful for awhile now. Divers will sometimes show, performance WONT

If you have good info on flashing the mr5870 or 280 id love it though !!!

I have not seen an ATI mod past the RV770 and have not had luck with Nvidia for awhile as well ( 260 and 280 )