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Hello! I am a university student of cinematography, partially earning money by creating commercial videos. I am currently deciding on which laptop to buy. 90% of my work consists of editing 4k 10bit long GOP videos from my Lumix S1. My budget is around 2000 euro (2400 USD) - I am willing to pay more if it is really worth the performance and overall functionality.

This one looks interesting to me:
OMEN by HP 15-ek0003nc
Specs: Intel Core i7 10750H Comet Lake, 15.6" IPS matte 1920 × 1080 144 Hz, RAM 32GB DDR4, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q 8GB, SSD 1000GB

What do you think? Is this OMEN by HP powerfull enough for a comfortable 4K work in DaVinci? Or can you suggest me a better option?

It depends on how you define ‘comfortable’. IMHO, there is no laptop for comfortable work in 4K.
But that machine should be able to handle 4K in 25 FPS in an HD timeline. 60 FPS may be limited.

As long as your timeline is HD and you don't need a complex edit with multiple tracks and fusion it should just about work but for your budget but you would be far better off building a desktop machine.

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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