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Looking for a mid-range Laptop

GZFant

GZFant

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I am very curious to know what would give me the best bang for the buck mid-range laptop STRICTLY for movie editing. I have a budget of 1,700 dollars and I am looking for something that is stable, affordable, very mobile with good battery life. I am also considering Apple PCs as well so any and all information will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
 
If its only for video-editing, apple is an excellent solution. Are you planning on doing Final Cut Pro or what? If you are just going to do a low-end software like Imoive, i would say mac might be a good idea. But also, check out lenovo (IBM). I would go with a Z, T, or R for portability. The Z is suppossed to have discrete graphics so you may want to check that out.Thinkpad notebooks linky. Hope that helps.
 
sounds like you are a candidate for a Powerbook my friend. If you get an educational discount, that helps a lot.
 
Yea, I was thinking Powerbook as well, I just didn't know if PCs had caught up with Apple on the movie editing end in notebook size. How is their batter life compared to a Mobile Pentium/Athlon notebook?

Thanks for all the help!
 
From looking at Apple.com, their PPC life is generally 1-2 hours less than P-M systems. As for P-M vs. Turion, as of right now, P-M systems are faster for video editing due to the large L2 cache. I think PPC hardware design focus more on efficiency for video editing in conjunction with their OS, but this design is not perfect for every software, likewise with Intel/AMD.
Considering the 64bit windows/unix with Intel's dual-core 32 bit, 64 bit P-M (2006 with 4meg L2) plus RAID! and higher overall speeds across the board, PPCs may lose its edge(or reputation) for AV editing performance. Futur AMD Turion based systems are also worth the competition. More things to consider is that some PC notbooks right now have muti HDD capability which is better for swaping and scratch. I'm not sure which current PCs can do firewire800 thou.
Editing on batter is also tricky. I can't find any benchmarks that contrast PPC with Intel/AMD at power saving mode. For instance, how will PPCs power saving technique compare with intel/amd interms of performance vs. battery life.

 
If you can wait a little longer, the dual core pentium-m's are due out around January. The second core will greatly help with video editing/encoding.
 
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