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victoriaa_
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August 17, 2017
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Urgent, Need help buying a laptop for Premiere Pro CC use

  • August 17, 2017
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Hi everyone!  I need a computer to edit videos with Premiere Pro CC. I am starting my profesional career, and I know a desk computer would be better but I cant have one for now. I live in Argentina and I don't have many options...  so I wanted to ask you guys what can you recommend me in terms of CPU and GPU. (I couldn't find any laptop being sell in my country with NVDIA). My options are:

1- HP Pavilion with:

CPU: AMD12

RAM: 8 GB

GPU: AMD R7

1TB

Windows 10

2- Lenovo:

CPU: AMD12

GPU: AMD R16M-M1-30

RAM: 12GB

1TB

Windows 10

3- HP Pavilion 15

CPU: MD Quad-Core A12

GPU: AMD Radeon 530, 4GB

RAM: 16 GB

1 TB

I try to find one with i7 but I only found with i7 - U, and GPU: Intel or AMD R16M-M1-30

Thank you!!!

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Correct answer excited_Genie16B8

I know a desk computer would be better but I cant have one for now.

Why not?  They're usually cheaper and perform better.

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RjL190365
Legend
August 19, 2017

Here's the deal:

None of the three laptops in your list is suitable for Premiere Pro: If anything, the fastest of AMD's mobile APUs is actually slower and less powerful than even a dual-core Intel i3 CPU in Premiere Pro.

And even if you need portability per se, all laptops will downgrade the maximum operating clock speed severely when they're running on batteries. What's more, in the case of those AMD APUs, the clock speed will fall far below Adobe's minimum performance requirement just to even run Premiere Pro at all! As a result, those laptops must be plugged into a wall outlet just for Premiere Pro to even run properly or at all.

And if any of those laptops have a display resolution that's only 1366 x 768, the Premiere interface might not display properly (for example, critical portions of the interface may become permanently hidden and unrecoverable unless a bigger, higher-rez screen is installed).

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excited_Genie16B8Correct answer
Legend
August 17, 2017

I know a desk computer would be better but I cant have one for now.

Why not?  They're usually cheaper and perform better.

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victoriaa_Author
Participant
August 17, 2017

Because I travel and move a lot it wouldn't work for me. Please help me find a laptop.

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