Looking to build a laptop set up

[Jonathan Mines]

i sold up and moved countries about 6 months ago. That included selling the Desktop I built.

While im an avid believer in building ones own desktop for editing, i am in a transient time for the next couple of years - i’ll be moving a lot so a portable set up is key.

I don’t know the laptop market at all.

1) what kind of laptop specs am I aiming for to run premier with 4k footage (I own a gh4, but editing Is my primary source of film work so need to be able to handle heavier stuff) and some reasonably light after effects work?

2) how to manage harddrives, proxies?

3) peripheral accessories that potentially improve life and workflow?

4) general portable workflow tips?

[Ann Bens]

Moved to Hardware Forum​

[John T Smith]

OLD Laptop Video Editing PC discussion - https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2159438

I do not know if either of these companies does laptop as well as desktop

-http://www.sharbor.com/ or https://www.pugetsystems.com/

External eSata or USB3 are both fast enough for video editing... (or Firewire?) http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1117813

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A possibility is this USB3 dock with fan to swap drives http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-SuperSpeed-Docking-Station-Cooling/dp/B0055PL2YI or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147511

[Jonathan Mines]

Thanks for the input - I did see that older thread, but it's a few years old and the computing market moves very quickly.

[RjL190365]

You failed to mention your maximum budget (in units of your new country's currency). In fact, you might end up with an el-cheapo laptop that falls well below Adobe's required hardware minimums with regards to specs and performance just to even run Premiere Pro (even CS6, let alone CC 2019) at all!

[Jonathan Mines]

I didn't mention an upper budget because I'm trying to get a gauge of what is around in general, setting a budget once I have a better idea of whats suitable. But I guess I'd like to spend around £1000, less would be great, but I don't think feasible. I don't know enough currently to know if that's a reasonable budget.

[RjL190365]

That's okay. I gave my warning only because it is too easy to cheap out on the configuration.

As a matter of fact, I ran the now-difficult-to-obtain PPBM timelines through the benchmarks on my laptop with that 4th-generation i5-4210U CPU and only integrated Intel HD Graphics 4400 although I upgraded its RAM from its originally installed 6 GB to its maximum of 16 GB. I ran the benchmarks on my 64 GB SanDisk Extreme USB 3.0 flash drive that has been proven to produce write speed results in the PPBM Disk I/O benchmark of 150-ish MB/s.

My results, running Premiere Pro CC 2019 13.0.2, are as follows:

MPEG-2 DVD (MPE On): 343 seconds

MPEG-2 DVD (MPE Off): 1.791 seconds

H.264 Blu-ray (MPE On): 1.070 seconds

I used dots instead of commas to separate the digits due to your European custom.

You do not want to go down any worse than this level of performance, even for a laptop that will be surfing the Internet most of the time and only editing video for a limited amount of time.

Hope this helps,

Randall