8k Editing Workstations Mobile & Desktop

[Brian Pascale]

Reviving threat. A client of mine is looking to buy a laptop to edit with Adobe Premiere, so seeing what good options are out there. Is 32 gigs a minimum recomandation now, or can you have just 16? What about graphics cards? Worth going top notch, or something more middle of the road? Can spend upto $3,500

 

[Misha Engel]

It's kind of heavy and ugly but the MSI GT75 Titan 8RG with an i9-8950HK, 32GB RAM and a GTX1080 is kind of the fastest you can buy at the moment for $3,500.

https://www.msi.com/Laptop/GT75-Titan-8RG

 

[scott devitte]

The HP zbook G5 15 and 17 workstations and the Dell Precision 7530 and 7730 workstations are going to be released any day now. I saw them at NAB. They are great machines. HP had a NAB special on workstations HPNAB20 that they told me would be working through the release of the G5's. These laptops can be configured anyway you want and will get expensive. Check out the specs, make sure that you understand the difference in GTX and Quadro cards as far as performance in Adobe.

 

[Misha Engel]

Check out the specs, make sure that you understand the difference in GTX and Quadro cards as far as performance in Adobe.

The only benefit from a quadro card vs. a GTX is more memory and 10-bit display support with Adobe PP.

I wouldn't color correct on a laptop display and when you want to do it with the laptop get a (10 bits) external monitor or OLED TV, a Razer Core X TB3 enclosure($300) and a DeckLink (4K Extreme 12G($900) / Studio 4K($600)).