Dell G7 Gaming Laptop for After Effects and Premier?

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January 21, 2020
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I want to purchase a Dell G7 laptop, but I read somewhere gaming laptops may not be the best for After Effects (or other programs in Adobe CC). I wanted to check here before I made the purchase. I mostly use AE to prepare audio visualizers for my music from templates. I'm also interested in Premier to edit YouTube videos. Can anyone advise?

Edited to add specs:

Processor: 9th Generation Intel Core i7-9750H (12MB Cache, up to 4.5 GHz, 6 cores)

Graphics Card: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1660 Ti 6GB GDDR6

Memory: 16GB, 2x8GB, DDR4, 2666MHz

Hard Drive: 256GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive (Boot) + 1TB 5400 rpm 2.5" SATA Hard Drive (Storage)

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Correct answer Peru Bob

The 5400 RPM drive is a dealbreaker. No matter what you do, it will be a bottleneck.

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Jack5C1F

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I bought this laptop two years ago and am doing a school project that requires frequent Adobe use- the large D drive and tiny OS has become a huge issue, as Adobe's Creative Cloud is telling me it will install to the D drive but still insists that something is too full. I am a novice and don't really have the time to replace parts, please help!

Peru Bob

Community Expert

"but still insists that something is too full"

There are some files that must be placed on the system drive. You also need enough room on the system drive for temp and system files. If the system drive is too small, you have no other option than to replace the system drive with a larger one.

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Jack5C1F

Participant

So it's limited by the physical space of the drives; I thought I saw something about reformatting the space in the drives, but I'm assuming that won't help?

johnpooley3

Inspiring

Gaming laptops are cheapest way to go, I'm less concerned about the speed of your second hard drive, since you could always take apart the laptop and upgrade it to 7200 RPM or an SSD yourself later if you do find that it is a bottleneck.

Peru Bob

Community Expert

A second SSD would be best. Next best would be a 1TB SSD instead of the 256 GB SSD and use the HDD for backup files.

More RAM would help, too.

What type of media will you be editing?

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robertb61073074Author

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Mostly video clips taken with a webcam plus some B-roll for a YouTube channel. We also prepare audio visualizer videos from templates for the channel. I don't consider that any true heavy lifting... Thanks so much for your feedback. It's all helping us craft a decision. Right now, that work is done on an HP Envy purchased in 2015.

Peru Bob

Correct answer

Community Expert

The 5400 RPM drive is a dealbreaker. No matter what you do, it will be a bottleneck.

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robertb61073074Author

Participant

I contacted Dell and I can have that drive replaced. What would be the optimal replacement to fix that issue? I'm not even sure what to ask for. A faster RPM drive? Everything running on the same SSD?

Thank you so much for your help.