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Hi GuysMy old Dell precision M6700 is about to go into Laptop retirement. It has served reasonably for work in the field and I am about to upgrade. I'm looking for something reasonably light that can cope. I had thought of going the Apple route, but all my other devices are Windows, apart from my iPhone. So, I've been looking at the Microsoft Surface BOOK 2, with Intel® 1900 MHz 16384 MB Tablet, Flash Hard Drive and GeForce GTX1060. It seems to offer similar and is a tad cheaper and I've had good results with the Surface pro 4.Has anyone used this laptop with PPr 13.1.4 and and does it handle OK or should I look elsewhere?Regards,Graham

Sumeet Kumar Choubey · Answer

Hi glaustin,

The performance in Premiere Pro is dependent on several factors like the system specs(CPU, GPU, RAM, and Storage), media type (format/codec, frame rate and frame size) and the effects applied. Based on the specs that you have provided it seems like you are looking at Microsoft Surface Book2 with an intel i7-8650U (@1.9 GHz) and the Dell Precision M6700 that you have most likely is using i7-3940XM (https://www.dell.com/community/Precision-Mobile-Workstations/Precision-M6700-maximum-CPU-amp-GPU-upgrade-parts/td-p/6102487). Both of these CPUs are not much different when it comes to the overall performance (https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-8650U-vs-Intel-Core-i7-3940XM/m353957vsm7092), so you may not notice a considerable difference in the performance of Premiere Pro. Though the GTX 1060 being a newer and faster GPU may help in getting better performance while processing GPU accelerated effects and features. Hope it helps.

Thanks,

Sumeet

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