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What laptop can you suggest?

May 20, 2014 4:41PM PDT

I need a laptop with i5 4th generation or higher, 2.2 RAM or higher, 2 ghz graphic card or higher, FHD or higher, HDMI input, 1TB HD or higher, 15" or bigger

Are these options enough to do video editing

Can you please suggest at least 3 different brands with a maximum price of 700$

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If we're talking video editing
May 20, 2014 11:30PM PDT

If we're talking video editing, laptops are the wrong way to go. Laptops are about the worst platform you can come up with for video editing. Small screen, lower power components, and of course the heat generated from the video editing will cause premature failure of the unit. Plus at $700 or less, you probably aren't going to find anything that meets your specs to begin with.

Now if we were talking desktops, and not all-in-ones, it'd be a whole other story. Dell's XPS desktop line would probably about have you covered and in the price range you're looking at if you already have a monitor. Or you could build your own... Might cost a little more, but if you take your time and pick your components well, you have near infinite flexibility for upgrades.

Not sure there's any other major brand I could recommend for desktops. Lenovo's warranty commitment is questionable given how they release a new model every 6-8 months. ASUS, I would call an extremely racist company, to the point where they go out of their way to racially discriminate against employees, plus their repair program isn't something you want to deal with because it involves you paying to ship the computer to their subcontractor in Milpitas, CA where it will sit for 2-4 weeks waiting for some part to make its way over on a cargo freighter from China and then they'll probably botch the repair anyway. I had a friend whose job with ASUS was to deal with customers like that, until he complained about his Asian coworkers harassing him because he's white. ASUS refuses to investigate his claims of being harassed and discriminated against, despite the HR department clearly recognizing that they were made, but will go as far as to get someone to file a false police report against him. HP is not really showing any signs that Meg Whitman will be able to turn around the PC business quality wise and if you do a quick search you can find R. Profitt's numerous tellings of how HP walked out on a warranty on a unit he bought. iBuyPower and CyberPowerPC are little more than scam artists posing as PC builders if you read a lot of online reviews. Then there's Apple where either you get the low end Mac Mini, which has all of the drawbacks of a laptop and none of the benefits of a desktop, or the high end Mac Pro which is well outside your price range.

The TLDR version: Get a desktop for video editing, either Dell or build your own.

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May 21, 2014 2:43AM PDT

can i still get a laptop with these option with that price

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Possibly
May 21, 2014 9:48AM PDT

Possibly, but you'd be at the mercy of short-term promotional pricing. You might find a really good deal on a laptop, but only have a day or two in which to make a decision to buy it.

Still, anything more than say an hour a day of video encoding means you should really be looking at a desktop. Not a laptop, not an all-in-one, not a small form factor, not anything other than a tower unit.

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do video editing
May 20, 2014 11:45PM PDT

What does that mean? As a work a day type work where you do that daily for years or just beginning and will putter around on and off? The first is best to get back to a desktop or admit the limitations of a laptop and then look for 700 dollar laptops. Why would I write that?

Because my first laptop video editing was on an Acer ter-600. That was a Pentium 3 with a small HDD compared to today. Rendering a Video DVD took about 6 hours. Today's machines do that in minutes.

So today's machines do video editing. (period) But if you want to do this 8+ hours a day you want to get back on the desktop for speed and more.
Bob

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Laptop finder post is updated.
May 21, 2014 2:59AM PDT
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And a nod to this link.
May 21, 2014 3:06AM PDT
http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-budget-laptop/ while it notes a great deal in my opinion you never revealed exactly how much video editing you needed.

Sometime you find folk wanting to make Video DVDs which is fading fast as more and more folk have HDTV (Video DVD is not HD).
Bob
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May 22, 2014 7:29AM PDT

I will be doing simple video editing to be able to upload to youtube I would not be doing any heavy work since I am a beginner at video editing so I guess 4th generation i5 processor and 2 g video card will be more than enough