Help with specs on a laptop!

[chicoelnino]

Hi guys,

It was recommended I join this forum by a few folk who said ye'd be able to help me the best with what I'm looking for.

I'm moving to Asia next year as part or a work/travel project and I want to get myself a laptop that will suit the bill for what I need.

I will be using it for light video editing, photoshop, lightroom and website/blog work. I won't be needing it to play games.

I will be a HD display, min 240gb ssd, 3.0 usb and something that has a decent/robust build quality if possible.

My budget is circa €1,000.

The Genesis IV model was recommended to me, so using the pcspecialist website I came up with the following specs:

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I'm not too savy when it comes to all the different specs and computer jargon, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

I understand that the more RAM and processing power as opposed to a dedicated graphics card is what's needed for video/photo editing?

I'm open to other suggestions for models

Thanks in advance.

 

[Iroquois Pliskin]

Your screenshot is kinda broken. For video trans/encoding you need at RAM and a Quad Core with HyperThreading preferably. Grab an i7-3630QM, 16 GB of RAM, an 128-240 GB SSD, and then go from there.

Optimus IV/Genesis IV/Ultranote chassis would do.

 

[chicoelnino]

I've those requirements already in the set up.

I can add a secondary hard drive to the system if I like. Should I consider adding a normal hdd to the set up? What's the disadvantages of doing so if any?

 

[vanthus]

I've those requirements already in the set up.

I can add a secondary hard drive to the system if I like. Should I consider adding a normal hdd to the set up? What's the disadvantages of doing so if any?

You would have the disadvantage of losing the optical (DVD) drive,as a second hard drive would need to be installed in it's place.

 

[chicoelnino]

I see! But when I click on selecting the second drive, it still shows up as having the dvd drive there as well?

Would the second drive add much weight?

 

[vanthus]

I see! But when I click on selecting the second drive, it still shows up as having the dvd drive there as well?

What does it tell you when you click on "proceed".
I'm talking about the Genesis IV.

 

[chicoelnino]

What does it tell you when you click on "proceed".
I'm talking about the Genesis IV.

Ah yes, your right. When I click proceed it gives me the compatibility issue. Oh well. I think I'll just stick with the ssd and use external hard drives as I need them.

Yeah its the Genesis IV laptop I'm looking at getting.

I think it will be suitable for my needs especially with 16GB of RAM for having the likes of photoshop and lightroom open at the same time.

Any other considerations that I should take on board?

I was going to wait until January to order as the price might have dropped a little...is this worth considering?

 

[Philvrs]

an i5-3xxxm would be more than enough CPU power for most on-line poker clients depends on how much time you need to save doing other things like photoshop as to how much more to spend.

 

[chicoelnino]

an i5-3xxxm would be more than enough CPU power for most on-line poker clients depends on how much time you need to save doing other things like photoshop as to how much more to spend.

lol! Yeah, well the poker won't be factoring in while I'm abroad. Will need photoshop and video editing(light amount) power really.