New Recommendations for New Laptop

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March 3, 2021
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I know this gets asked a lot, but after buying a new AMD based system to edit 4k video in Premiere Pro, I figured I needed to ask this time. I'm trying to find a real world laptop that will do what I need it to do. I'm not oppossed to going high end, but I'd rather keep it under 2K. Thanks in advance.

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Aidan5E05Author

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Well as much as Adobe wants to say I was having hardware issues, my BRAND NEW Alienware Area 51 R2 Intel I7 10700 Nvidia RTX 2070 Super and 16 GB RAM are just as slow as my Asus TUF AMD 4800H Nvidia 2060 32 GB RAM that I'm sending back. It took about 14 minutes to export some 4k test footage at 1080P. I'm lost here.

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RjL190365

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It's not hardware issues per se. It's your choice of hardware. If anything, the i7-10700 is actually a step backwards in terms of the age of the technology. Its CPU architecture is a tweaked over-and-over-again variant of the Skylake architecture that debuted more than five years ago in the 6th-Gen Intel Core CPUs. Plus, both the 10700 and the 4800H have 8 cores and 16 threads.

And Adobe is partly to blame, in this case, because even in the latest public release of Premiere Pro, 14.9, still has a lot of old legacy code remaining. This hamstrung the maximum performance potential of newer systems.

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Aidan5E05Author

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I'm getting tired of this riddle. I picked out a new computer that meets the optimal specs (granted I'm going to upgrade the RAM asap) and it's being outperformed by my buddies under-speced Acer Nitro 5's.

John T Smith

Community Expert

I think there is some laptop discussion in this https://community.adobe.com/t5/video-hardware/premiere-pro-hardware-articles-to-read-before-you-buy-or-build/m-p/11557686

Peru Bob

Community Expert

Moved to the Hardware forum.

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Andy 1968

Inspiring

If you are editing h.264/265 Intel will be the better option. Intel's Quick Sync is supposed to get a revamp and play more variations of h.264. With dedicated hardware for encoding and decoding a quad core Intel laptop could outperform a 24 core Desktop comuuter from AMD but only for h.264/265. Pro Res, BRAW and R3D files would playback better on the AMD desktop.

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RjL190365

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Not really. Only the i5, i7 and i9-branded CPUs will be a new architecture in the 11th-Gen line. The i3 and Pentium parts will be stuck in the Comet Lake architecture for the 11th-Gen (in this case, Comet Lake Refresh, which is merely a higher-clocked tweak of the current 10th-Gen CPUs).

I know that the OP requests which laptop CPU to get, but the truly new architecture will only be available with six or more cores. The quad-core CPUs, for the most part, will remain stuck with the 10th-Gen and earlier architectures, albeit branded into the 11th-Gen lineup.

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