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February 6, 2024
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Laptop Specs - Can This Thing Cut It?

  • February 6, 2024
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Hello, great and powerful Adobe community.  I'm hoping someone can help me evaluate the laptop specs below.  Our ITS department is offering this as a multimedia workstation for low to mid-intensity production (Premier, AfterEffects, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)  Seems underwhelming for a multimedia workstation, but looking for another opinon.  Is this thing going to choke playing an unrendered video project in real time?  What could be improved here to make this into something that can deftly handle low to mid-level intensity A/V editing and large graphic design files?  I'm thinking 32MB of RAM is a no-brainer, but not sure how the processor or graphics card rates.  Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

 

HP ProBook 445 G9

CPU: Ryzen 5 5625U

RAM: 16GB (1x16GB) DDR4 3200

Storage: 512GB PCIe NVMe Value Solid State Drive

14 inch FHD

HD Webcam

 

Asked about the graphics processor specifically and was told this (below). The fact that it's integrated and shares memory seem like red flags.

 

 Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000)

TGP

15 W

Type

Integrated

Fabrication process

7 nm

GPU base clock

0 MHz

GPU boost clock

1500 MHz

Memory size

System Shared

Memory type

DDR4

Memory speed

3.2 Gbps

Shading units (cores)

384

Texture mapping units (TMUs)

24

Raster operations pipelines (ROPs)

8

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    Peru Bob
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    February 6, 2024

    It won't be useful for After Effects:

    https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/system-requirements.html

     

    Premiere Pro will struggle with 4K:

    https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/system-requirements.html

     

    The hard drive is too small if you plan on storing media there.

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    March 11, 2024

    Hoping not too late to add to this thread, but after pushing back on the previous offering, I've been given another laptop option.  My sense from reading reviews is that this one will also underwhelm in terms of performance, but I need some more opinions to either support my case for a better machine or confirm that this one will be okay.  I'd really appreciate it if you (or anyone else) woulkd give me your opinion on ther specs below.  My benchmark is my personal laptop - a 2018 MacBook Pro (2.6GHz 6-core i7, Radeon Pro 560X 4GB), which handles my video work fairly well.  Could I expect this newer HP to perform better than, worse than, or about the same?

     

    Any and all assistance is greatly appreciated.

     

     

     

     

    Laptop - HP Firefly

    MAKE / MODEL

    HP ZBook Firefly 14"/16" G10 Mobile Workstation PC

    CPU

    HP IDS DSC RTX A500 i7-1365U TI PD IC 14 G10 Base

    RAM

    32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 5200 SODIMM Memory  

    STORAGE

    2TB PCIe-4x4 2280 NVMe TLC Solid State Drive  

    GRAPHICS

    Nvidia quadro ATX 500

    WIRELESS

    Intel AX211 Wi-Fi 6E vPro 160 MHz +Bluetooth 5.3 WW WLAN 

    MONITOR

    14.0 inch AG WUXGA (1920x1200) LED UWVA 250 f5MP bnt LCD Panel  

    CAMERA

    Dual AryMic 5MP USB2 WFOV Integrated Camera  

    KEYBOARD

    Clickpad Backlit spill-resistant Premium Keyboard 

    EXTRAS

    Long Life 51Whr Fast Charge 3 cell Battery 

    EXTRAS

    Fingerprint Sensor 

    EXTRAS

    Active SmartCard 

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    March 11, 2024

    The HP Firefly is a good laptop, but I would avoid 1920-by-1080.  I'd ask if you can go with the "2560 x 1600 Dreamcolor" option for the HP Firefly instead.

    If going HP and if possible, I'd ask for the HP 16' ZBook Studio G10 Mobile Workstation, making sure it's the 3840 x 2400 model (non-touch or touch) with as much RAM and internal storage as you can get approved.


    Appreciated, Warren.  I actually put in for the OMEN Transcend Laptop 16-u1047nr, but they came back at me the the Firefly.  I was trying to keep it around $2,000 or less to avoid sticker shock, but I think you're on the same page as I am regharding what constitutes a multimedia workstation.  Your input will undoubtedly help, so I thank you for it.  I'll definitely mention the recommendation.