markm Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Can anyone suggest a good laptop for editing raw on? TIA Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Essary Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 My guess is you want something that takes a lot of RAM, has a couple of drivebays with fast external options (USB 3.0 and/or thunderbolt), and something that has a discrete graphics card for accelerating preview windows. My work laptop is a Thinkpad W520 and while not a dainty little flower, has 16gb RAM, nVidia Quadro graphics, and I think it'd be a really nice video editing laptop if I wanted to install the Adobe suite on it (i'm loathe to use my work supplied gear for personal creative projects, though). If I were to buy a non-mac specifically for video editing, I think a Thinkpad W530 (which supports up to 32gb RAM) would be a pretty tough machine to beat if you do windows. I know a lot of folks are using stuff like the ASUS ROG 17" laptops, or building out SAGER/CLEVO generics, as well. Check the lenovo outlet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HurtinMinorKey Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Any latptop with a discrete 2GB GPU, big SSD, and >3700 Inel CPU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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