HP Zbook Firely 15 G7

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December 18, 2020
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My office is looking at getting me an HP Zbook Firely 15 G7 to run PP and AE. Will the Intel® Core™ i7-10710U processor (1.1 GHz, up to 4.7 GHz with Turbo Boost, 12 MB cache, 6 core) + Intel® UHD Graphics (18C32AV) be enough?

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Michael Grenadier

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this is really a question of what your source properties and sequence settings will be and if you'll be doing complex

effects. Also, it's probably crucial to get a decent size external monitor for serious editing.

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Jonesboro5CAAAuthor

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I already have the external monitor both at home and the office. I don't do extremely complex projects, shooting mostly in 1080. I am planning on getting a 360 degree camera. Will a computer like this be able to handle that?

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RjL190365

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How much RAM is going to be installed in that laptop? Premiere Pro will not run properly if it's equipped with less than 16 GB of RAM.

And don't expect much out of the integrated graphics: It is just yet another warmed-over version of the UHD Graphics 620, which was never a decent performer to begin with.

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RjL190365

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Never mind what I stated about the amount of RAM that's included. That particular model comes with 16 GB of RAM and a 250 GB NVMe SSD.

With that in mind, the GPU is definitely the weakest link in that laptop, followed by the low amount of storage. With only 250 GB of included storage (of which about 160 GB is available), you will definitely need a Thunderbolt 3 external SSD for your working media storage, especially since rendered/exported video may eat up hundreds of GB of space.

At least you will be able to take advantage of Intel QuickSync hardware decoding and encoding in that laptop, when the next point release of Premiere Pro comes out (the timetable is not yet known). The only other GPU choice for the HP ZBook Firefly G7 is a discrete Nvidia Quadro P520 - a weaking of a (discrete) GPU with no NVENC hardware encoder at all, and may also have had its NVDEC hardware decoder disabled in manufacture.

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Michael Grenadier

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unless you're working with 4k a thunderbolt 3 SSD may be overkill. I work mainly in 1080 with usb3 external hard drives without issues. And I avoid keeping media, previews, caches, etc on my startup drive...

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Jonesboro5CAAAuthor

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That should have been Firefly, not firely! sorry

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