Choosing a Laptop for Motion Graphics work

Question

Hi, I would like to get a budget friendly laptop to run Adobe After Effects / Premiere Pro / Adobe Animate.

I currently have a lovely HP laptop which however sometimes gets a bit slow (it has a 8GB RAM but I couldn't afford anything above this previously). Now I am choosing between the following options:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-UX363EA-Convertible-i5-1135G7-UX363EA-HP924W/dp/B09Q2TH62G/ref=sxin_15_pa_sp_search_thematic_sspa?content-id=amzn1.sym.4939ea89-efd4-468c-a458-8735f4cbce34%3Aamzn1.sym.4939ea89-efd4-468c-a458-8735f4cbce34&crid=I2429L5751QX&cv_ct_cx=32gb+ram+laptop&keywords=32gb+ram+laptop&pd_rd_i=B09Q2TH62G&pd_rd_r=e5dd58a8-9a9e-46f7-ae70-9f93a999733f&pd_rd_w=HGSDN&pd_rd_wg=AuQUQ&pf_rd_p=4939ea89-efd4-468c-a458-8735f4cbce34&pf_rd_r=CWYR85EWXTHCMASX2X0F&qid=1670330914&sprefix=%2Caps%2C76&sr=1-3-b75715df-0cbd-4312-a971-de5362256967-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9zZWFyY2hfdGhlbWF0aWM&psc=1

and https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-UX482EAR-Touchscreen-i5-1155G7-certified/dp/B09QFWGNHY/ref=sr_1_7_sspa?crid=I2429L5751QX&keywords=32gb+ram+laptop&qid=1670330914&sprefix=%2Caps%2C76&sr=8-7-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9tdGY&psc=1

(mainly because they allow monthly payments on Amazon).

Which one is the better option? Many thanks in advance for any advice!

Conrad_C · Answer

Those two choices are very similar so it’s hard to recommend one over the other, and unfortunately neither would satisfy you for very long with pro video applications. They are both Intel Core i5 with four cores each and integrated graphics — a lot like my previous laptop, which I no longer find suitable for video editing. Generally, a good laptop for video editing with today’s applications tend to have at least one of the following, preferably more than one: 8 CPU cores, discrete graphics (to take advantage of GPU accelerated features, and reduce the load on the CPU), and a 12th generation Intel CPU or later. At the price point of those laptops you might achieve one or maybe two of those features.

The list of laptops below might help, though again you will have to exclude the models that are well above your budget. I have no connection to the website below and do not endorse it, it was simply something that turned up in a web search and looked useful enough.

https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/best-laptops-for-video-editing

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