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Laptop requirements - Premiere pro cc 2018?

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January 25, 2018
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Hi,

PP 2018 doesn't really work on my old PC, "HP 840".
I need to upgrade, to a new HP Laptop. (it has to be HP)

Anyone who could help me which to buy?

Or could I not use a laptop for 2018 version?

/Tomas

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Laptops5C51

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(5 Best Laptops Reviews) To be a professional in film-making and first-class editing, it is important to choose the best laptop for Adobe Premiere Pro as much as you value your Profession because good editing and good film-making can only be done when You will have a good laptop.

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American Goulash

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I'm looking for buying a new laptop for Premiere Pro and After Effects. I cannot go higher than $2000 so after a lot of reading and investigation I kinda picked this MSI laptop ( Amazon.com: MSI GS65 Stealth THIN-050 15.6" Gaming Laptop - 144Hz 7ms, Ultra Thin, i7-8750H (6 cores), GTX 1060 6G, 16GB…

What do you guys think about this one?

Peru Bob

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With fast external storage for media, it will probably be OK. Just keep in mind that it will have to be plugged into the power bar or it will throttle back to the base CPU speed.

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TL2121

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maybe you could even get away with this..

SagerNP8950 Notebook ($1499)

Although the NVidia Geforce GTX1060--may be the lowest performer capable of mercury playback...

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tomasj46868297Author

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Thanx for your info, Sager looks really cool. Gaming PC is probably a safe choice. I'm unfortunately a little locked to HP laptop's. But as you say, it's probably best to pay a little more from the beginning. Hehe, as I wrote, If you buy quality, you only cry once

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RjL190365

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I just looked further into your old laptop (the first-generation HP EliteBook 840), and discovered why you couldn't really run PP CC 2018 with it:

1) It came standard with only 4GB of RAM. PP CC 2015 and later requires 8GB or more RAM just to even run at all.

2) The EliteBook 840 G1's display is only capable of a resolution of 1366x768. Newer versions of Premiere Pro will now simply throw up an error message and refuse to run at all. CS6 still threw up a warning message, but at least would launch. And all recent versions of Premiere Pro require a minimum horizontal display resolution of 1280 pixels and a minimum vertical display resolution of 800 pixels just to run properly.

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TL2121

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Tomas

The Sager

NP8952 Notebook --seems good ($1699)--This forum put me on to sager.com--I dont currently own one--but Ive heard good things and their higher end laptops are usually a good bet to handle Premiere pro. Just see the specs for yourself... If you skimp now you WILL PAY later--might as well spend a couple hundred more--that is... unless you dont want mercury plaayback and all the time saving it affords...

Bill Gehrke

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Here is an ideal starting point shopping list for a HP Omen X 17T

Processor and graphics

Intel® Core™ i7-7700HQ (2.8 GHz, up to 3.8 GHz, 6 MB cache, 4 cores) + NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1070 (8 GB GDDR5 dedicated)
Intel® Core™ i7-7820HK (2.9 GHz, up to 3.9 GHz, 8 MB cache, 4 cores) + NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1070 (8 GB GDDR5 dedicated)
Intel® Core™ i7-7700HQ (2.8 GHz, up to 3.8 GHz, 6 MB cache, 4 cores) + NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1080 (8 GB GDDR5X dedicated)
Intel® Core™ i7-7820HK (2.9 GHz, up to 3.9 GHz, 8 MB cache, 4 cores) + NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1080 (8 GB GDDR5X dedicated)

Display

17.3" diagonal FHD 120 Hz IPS anti-glare WLED-backlit (1920 x 1080)
LCD 17.3 FHD AG LED UWVA flatfGSync144Hz
17.3" diagonal 4K IPS eDP anti-glare WLED-backlit (3840 x 2160)

Memory

12 GB DDR4-2400 SDRAM (1 x 4 GB, 1 x 8 GB)
16 GB DDR4-2400 SDRAM (2 x 8 GB)
16 GB DDR4-2800 SDRAM (1 x 16 GB) supporting Intel® XMP
24 GB DDR4-2400 SDRAM (1 x 8 GB, 1 x 16 GB)
32 GB DDR4-2400 SDRAM (2 x 16 GB)
32 GB DDR4-2800 SDRAM (2 x 16 GB) supporting Intel® XMP

Hard drive

1 TB 7200 rpm SATA
1 TB 7200 rpm SATA; 128 GB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD
HDD 2TB 5400RPM SATA
1 TB 7200 rpm SATA; 256 GB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD
1 TB 7200 rpm SATA; 512 GB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD
1 TB 7200 rpm SATA; Two 256 GB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD
1 TB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD
1 TB 7200 rpm SATA; Two 512 GB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD
1 TB 7200 rpm SATA; 1TB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD
1 TB 7200 rpm SATA; Two 1TB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD

Here is the link to customize your unit

It appears that you can have 2 NVMe M.2 SSD's plus a 1TB 7200 rpm hard disk drive. Which means if you only order one now you should be able to add another later on if you can not afford it immediately.

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tomasj46868297Author

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Thanx for your input, that looks good, maybe the price is a bit high. Needs <> Price

Peru Bob

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tomasj46868297 wrote
maybe the price is a bit high.

You can't really get an adequate editing laptop that's inexpensive.

Peru Bob

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Moved to the Hardware Forum.

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tomasj46868297Author

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Great, thank you all for quick input here.

I read about System Requirements before and became concious if it really works on a laptop, but it seems to work.

And the price, well difficult to match needs <> price

It seems to go with 8G ram and without GPU, but understand it will be difficult to work then.

I'll search around, with maximum budget around ~ 1200 $.

If you know a laptop model, its ok to write it here

Anyway, i'm very grateful for the information you already wrote here.

Thanx! RjL190365 Mizzou95 yenaphe

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RjL190365

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In addition to what Seb stated, a CPU with at least four cores and eight threads. Unfortunately, the HP EliteBook 840, even in its latest and current G4 iteration, falls short on two of these three: All of the configurations are available only with dual-core CPUs and integrated Intel HD graphics. Neither a quad-core hyperthreadable CPU nor a discrete GPU is available on any of the EliteBook 840 configurations even as options. And you will have to purchase RAM separately because as configured all of them come with only 8GB of RAM, running in single-channel mode.

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RjL190365

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In case you want to know, HP has since released an updated G5 version of the EliteBook 840, which can now be custom-configured with an "8th-generation" 4-core, 8-thread CPU such as an i7-8550U. Still no CUDA GPU option whatsoever. In fact, the only discrete GPU option available in the EliteBook 840 G5 is an AMD Radeon RX 540 - but you're still at the mercy of Adobe's OpenCL GPU acceleration issues. At least all of the displays available for the EliteBook 840 G5 are FHD (1920x1080) resolution.

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Mizzou95

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Without going into every model of HP laptop I can give you some general suggestions, especially since I don't know what your budget is. Look up the Premiere Pro requirements here (Adobe Premiere Pro System Requirements ) Pay attention to the video card specs. When you shop for a laptop try to get an i7 processor and a separate video card. I am partial to Nvidia myself, but that specs page lists both Nvidia and AMD. I have found that model numbers tend to stay ahead of Adobe's "official" list, but the list can help you gauge where your card may fall, since the newer numbers kind of fit a pattern.

HP is actually an Adobe partner, meaning several of their systems are certified or guaranteed to be compatible with Adobe's software (designed to get the most bang for your buck) Those tend to be business class machines. (My work provides me with an HP workstation-class laptop. Spendy for sure, but works flawlessly.) Even if you don't have that budget I have seen laptops sold by Costco that spec-wise look like they would be up to the task no problem. The i7 processor and separate video card are the big keys to me, along with as much RAM as your machine and budget will allow. (Aim for minimum of 16GB, and go up from there)

jasonc64408805

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I have had NOTHING but issues with my HP zbook g4 since getting it a week ago. It has been nearly impossible to download adobe cc without tech support doing so. They had to access a hidden admin user panel. Then trying to edit 4k was a nightmare. Nothing but lag on video playback. And mind you this was spec'd fairly high. I am returning it today actually and getting a Sager NP9175. For literally almost the same price I can double my ram to 64gb, add 2 m.2 SSD drives compared to the HP non m.2 SSD drives. And I can put a i7 8 gen DESKTOP CPU in it along with a DESKTOP GTX 1080. For literally the same price!

HP Z book was built fantastic and I am not expecting the same premium feel with the Sager but I need something extremely powerful when on the road. I am not planning on using this on a plane or in a car. Strictly when traveling in hotels etc. So speed is key for me.