Please help with laptop specs for Premiere Pro

Report · Dec 26, 2019

Hello, I am purchasing a new laptop and I am not sure which one to get in order to run my subscription of premiere pro. I have a very tight budget so I am looking for the cheapest laptop that can run the program. I looked at the specs on Adobe website, but the terms dont translate to the laptop descriptions properly. I dont know for example if Intel Iris graphics is the same thing as Intel R graphics etc. How can I go about getting some assistance? Should I post some laptop options? Someone just gave me an old Dell that has Intel R HD graphics 5500, Intel Core i3, 6bg RAM, and Adobe premiere will not run on it. Any advice please? I only have about $500 to spend, thank you. This is the only software I use that is an issue, otherwise I just use the computer for typical browsing.

Edited to add: for example I am looking at this on amazon: "Intel Pentium Gold 5405U 2.30GHz Dual-Core Processor (2MB SmartCache), Intel UHD Graphics 610 with Shared Graphics Memory "

Report · Dec 26, 2019

https://www.laptopedia.in/list-of-powerful-cpus-and-gpus-2019/

I build my own desktop computers, so the link above is all the information I have related to a laptop

Report · Dec 26, 2019

Thank you very much!

Report · Dec 26, 2019

I would be surprised if you could even find a used laptop in the $500 range that would run Premiere Pro.

Please let us know if you find anything.

Report · Dec 26, 2019

Which country are you located at?

If you're in the U.S. then at that $500 budget you might be able to get away with an 8th- or 9th-Generation quad-core Intel i5 U-series CPU if you can settle for a configuration with only 8 GB of RAM, no discrete GPU and either a very small-capacity SSD or a slow 5400 RPM HDD.

That configuration is about the best that you can do right now for such a low budget since the one that you're looking at is totally inadequate for any sort of video editing (as I had proved in past testing). After all, you really want the most powerful CPU that you can get for the money, which is exactly why when it came time to upgrade my desktop PC earlier this month I chose an AMD Ryzen 7 3800X over an Intel i7-9700K.

Hope this helps,

Randall