Opinion on suggested laptop to run Premiere, Photoshop, and After Effects.

Question

I am finally getting to upgrade to a laptop that would work better with Premiere and Photoshop -possibly After Effects. My IT dept. hasn’t been much help other than look at Lenovo. I just got an email for what I think is a deal - $2,058 for the Legion Pro 7i Gen 10 Intel (16") with RTX™ 5080 - Ultra 9 275HX Processor, NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 5080, GPU 16GB GDDR7, Memoriy: 32 GB DDR5-6400MT/s (CSODIMM)(2 x 16 GB), Storage: 1 TB SSD.  I could really use feedback on the use of this laptop - or other recommendations. Thanks.

Bill Sprague · Answer

“Legion” is Lenovo’s name for a gaming computer. I have one that is a few years old with an i7 CPU, 16GB RAM, an Nvidia GPU and a 1TB SSD. Yours has upgraded CPU, RAM and GPU. Before this one, I used an ASUS gaming laptop (until I dropped it). “Gamers” are cheaper than graphics workstations with about the same components. The screens may not match the ones used in “pro” editing consoles. Gamers come with NVIDA “gaming” drivers. Changing to “studio” drivers is easy to do at the NVIDIA website. I shoot consumer grade 4K/60, H.264 videos. My gamer Legion laptop has no issue with video or photo editing. It runs well with Premiere Premiere Elements, Photoshop, Lightroom, Lightroom Classic and that other NLE from the camera company. I don’t use After Effects much, but that’s good too.It is not uncommon for me to have Premiere and Lightroom open at the same time. You should have no problem with the computer you are looking at.

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