Laptop upgrade for After Effects

[MarekMularczyk]

Hello everyone,

I need some advice.

I'm thinking about upgrading, currently working on Surface Pro 7+ (Intel i7 11th Gen and 16GB of RAM) but the challenge is that they're really expensive. i love the Surface Pro and would want to stick to it.

My question is, what would make a difference in AE:

- upgrading from i7 11th gen (4 cores) to i7 12gen (up to 10 cores) (this means upgrading from Surface Pro 7+ to latest Surface Pro 9) (with 16GB of RAM)

or

- upgrading from 16GB of RAM to 32GB of RAM (the same Surface Pro 7+ with i7 11th gen).

(latest Surface Pro 9 with 32GB of RAM is too expensive)

Thanks,

Marek

[Warren Heaton]

Does the Surface Pro have any RAM slots?  I don't think there's an option to add more RAM.

I'd say wait for whatever replaces the Surface Pro 9 and then try to pick up a Surface Pro 9 (with as much RAM as fits your budget) while they're still available new but discounted because there's a newer model.

Upgrade priority for After Effects is CPU with more to take advantage of Multi-Frame Rendering (or faster CPU) then more RAM.

[MarekMularczyk]

No, Surface doesn't have slots for RAM, unfortunately...

Would newer CPU also improve "everyday" peformance of AE or just rendering?