Best laptop for creative suite cs6?

[shinya9]

I will be heading to college in September and wish to buy a new laptop and install creative suite production premium on it. I need a computer which will run fairly smoothly with production premium  but possibly more importantly I need a computer which will last me my four years of undergraduate. My college offers special deals on apple and dell computers so I'm strongly considering buying a laptop from those brands but am willing to purchase my computer from another company if it's clear that the laptop would be longer lasting/good with production premium. I can afford a little above 2000 dollars for the computer but I won't likely be able to play around with the computer much to imporove things like memory so custimization is basically out. Here are the descriptions of four computers I was looking at were the macbook 15 and 13.3 as well as the new special addition 15r inspiration and the new xps 15. The new xps 15 at 2000 dollars seems the most powerful but my understanding is that macs have a longer lifespan. Any recomendations would be great thanks!

[Bill Gehrke]

Trevor,  I do approve, and am jealous of the GT70 configuration options, but on my personal equipment I see no need for the complication of RAID for the OS.  Like my current laptop I completely reconfigured the unit with a single SSD for OS and Applications and a second larger SSD for my projects and removed the lousy 5400 rpm drive plus upgraded the memory.  While it can only handle two drives at SATA III speeds I of course did run PPBM7 tests and it is the fastest laptop on our PPBM7 site so far  (You do have to be register to see the results)  Not to bad for a total investment of $1475!

[fitnessfun]

There are a lot of sturdy, dependable laptops out there. My first year of college I bought a hp laptop and it was with me for all four years of school. One of the latest models is an HP Envy 17-3270NR.  It's great with graphic design, but also with everyday schoolwork. Check it out and others I've been impressed with below.

http://www.squidoo.com/best-graphic-design-laptops

[JFPhoton]

.....we are talking about using CS6 here RIGHT ???.......only CERTAIN laptops will contain the necessary hardware to run PPro ,or, After Effects well. Some Apple products can work,but can be HANDICAPPED vs. a Windows laptop if there is no option for multiple hard drives or NVidia graphics cards....not to mention the Apple OS, which may not be as capable as Windows if it is not the most recent...AND the disdvantage of working with " Quirktime",or, having to transcode FIRST to Pro-Res before editing !!

.....in general, best to stick with a Windows machine, 32 GB system memory,  NVidia GPU of the 7xx or 8xx mobile series,( 4 GB video memory is optimal...minimum 2GB of DDR 5 video memory ). The CPU should be the recent Haswell i7, giving over 3 ghz on turbo. Then, drive system is important. For good performance select a laptop that allows at least TWO hard drives....3 is better. An SSD as the "C" drive is best.....with either a larger capacity SSD as the second drive,or, if the budget is resricted, a large HDD as the second drive, (7,200 rpm MINIMUM ).  FORGET ATI graphics cards OR " integrated" graphics....you WILL NEED the NVidia GPU to use the "Mercury Playback Engine" which renders video previews TEN TIMES FASTER using CUDA than CPU only rendering !! Best to go with a desktop system anyway.....a powerful laptop MUST be plugged in to edit.....the CPU gets THROTTLED while on battery, no matter HOW you set your " power preferences ".

[rasmatazz_jr]

Hi all, I am new here. I am looking at the MSI GT60-KWS-674US for a mobile unit to do Adobe CS6.

Here are the specs, what do you think.

• Windows 7 Professional
• Intel® Core™ i7-4800MQ Processor
  15.6" Full HD Anti-Reflective 95% NTSC
      Display (16:9; 1920 x 1080)
  NVIDIA® Quadro® K3100M (4GB DDR3 VRAM)
• 128GB SSD + 1TB HDD (7200 RPM)
• 16GB DDR3L 1600MHz System Memory

[emanuelb54570030]

Here's a good article detailing exactly the aspects you should focus on when buying a laptop for graphic design work: Student Computing Gear – Best Laptops for College in 2016

Hope it helps!

[Bill Gehrke]

Emanuel, did you realize that you responded to a 2-year old posting on a 4-year old thread?

[emanuelb54570030]

Wow... Thanks for letting me know. Didn't have my glasses on at the time