Mon Nov 09, 2020 4:16 am
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I recently went through this to upgrade an older laptop.
What you should do depends greatly on the story you are telling with Davinci Resolve.
I'm a songwriter making music videos so a laptop is a must for me, plus I just like the form factor and portability between studio, location, and bedside table.
After researching building a desktop, and developing a ready parts list, I decided that next year was the time to build. Parts availability during Covid, inflated prices on when available parts, and various new generation tech emerging this year settled me on this delay.
I decided not to buy a bleeding edge laptop $$$ with fading technology.
So I got a Lenovo Legion 5 ~ 17", AMD 4800h, RTX 2060.
The 8 cores are supported by a well designed heat management system.
It's quiet for most of what I do, the fans only kick on for rendering.
Upgraded ram to 32gb, and change out the crazy HDD for a second NVME drive, and the the laptop came alive. I suggest these upgrades as necessary.
Got no complaints editing 4k, and I have not needed to optimize media or cache render effects.
Getting smooth playback on 1080 timeline using a good external monitor.
For some, laptops are an excellent solution.
Until they aren't.
When that happens I'll be building, but I'm a smiley face for now.
Jim
Dell 7720 laptop: i7-7820HQ | 32gb ram | 1 TB NVMe | NVIDIA Quadro P3000
Camera: Sony Rx10 mk IV | XAVC S codec | 4k | Davinci Resolve Studio 16.2.2
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