Advice on buying lapop for animation and video editing

[manhuco]

Hi

I'm looking for recommendations on buying a laptop for doing animation, video editing, and graphics editing. Software to be used: photoshop, after effects, premiere pro, and perhaps maya.

Price: $1500 more or less.

Thanks

 

[Enigmoid]

You should probably look at several models, decide which ones you like and post them here for recommendations.

What I recommend

i7 quad
8GB ram (you can always add 16 GB and its probably cheaper to do so than buy the notebook with 16 GB)
1080p screen
should have a SSD (or dual SSD + HDD preferably so programs go on SSD, projects on HDD), If you find a notebook with a mssd/m.2 slot you can add a msata drive.
dedicated GPU (650m or better).

 

[AlexAL]

The Clevo w350st is one suggestion:

http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np7355-clevo-w350st-p-6465.html?wconfigure=yes