Help with Video editing PC or Laptop

[JonnyEnglish]

Hi guys,

I am looking for a pc or laptop (prefer laptop) to edit youtube videos using premier pro... I have been using a medion laptop for ages and I'm bored of it now as it's hard work hahaha if someone could look at the spec below and let me know if it will be OK that would be amazing!

Chassis & Display
Elimina Series: 17.3" Matte QHD 165Hz WVA DCI-P3 LED Widescreen (2560x1440)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™ i7 10 Core Processor 13620H (4.90GHz Turbo)
Memory (RAM)
64GB Corsair 3200MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 32GB)
Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 4060 - 8.0GB GDDR6 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1
1st M.2 SSD Drive
2TB SOLIDIGM P44 PRO GEN 4 M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 7000MB/sR, 6500MB/sW)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
2TB SOLIDIGM P41+ GEN 4 M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 4125MB/sR, 3325MB/sW)
Memory Card Reader
Integrated Micro-SD Memory Card Reader
AC Adaptor
1 x 180W AC Adaptor
Power Cable
1 x 1.5 Metre Cloverleaf UK Power Cable
Battery
Elimina Series Integrated 54WH Lithium Ion Battery
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
2 Channel High Def. Audio + SoundBlaster™ Studio
Wireless Network Card
GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® Wi-Fi 6E AX211 + BT 5.3
USB/Thunderbolt Options
2 x USB 3.2 PORTS (Type C) + 1 x USB 3.2 PORT + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Docking Hub
PCS DS110 USB-C Docking Hub: 3 x USB 3.0, 1 x HDMI, 1 x RJ45, 1 x TYPE-C PD
Keyboard Language
ELIMINA 17" SERIES MULTI COLOUR BACKLIT UK KEYBOARD
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Windows Recovery Media
NO RECOVERY MEDIA REQUIRED
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft 365® (Operating System Required)
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Browser
Google Chrome™
Keyboard & Mouse
INTEGRATED 2 BUTTON TOUCHPAD MOUSE
Webcam
INTEGRATED 2.0 MP FULL HD WEBCAM
Warranty
3 Year Standard Warranty (6 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 3 to 5 working days
Welcome Book
PCSpecialist Welcome Book

Thank ypu so much!!

 

[SpyderTracks]

Hiya, what's your max budget?

Be aware, laptop components are less powerful than desktop counterparts, so a laptop 4070 is around the same as a desktop 4060, same goes for CPU's.

So you pay a lot more for less performance in a laptop, and the lifespan is about half that of a desktop as you can't upgrade the necessary components to remain current.

So long as you're aware of that, and give us a fixed ceiling to work to, we can advise on something.

 

[JonnyEnglish]

Thank you so much! Reason I would rather a laptop is I can then sometimes edit at work and also at home but this isn't a complete set in stone requirement

Absolute max would be £1500 and I wpuld also need monitors, keyboard, mouse, speakers, mic for voice overs etc.

Thanks so much!

 

[JonnyEnglish]

I'm also concerned about storage... for instance the footage I'm recording for most videos in 4k and approx 1 tb worth of footage at a time...

 

[SpyderTracks]

Thank you so much! Reason I would rather a laptop is I can then sometimes edit at work and also at home but this isn't a complete set in stone requirement

Absolute max would be £1500 and I wpuld also need monitors, keyboard, mouse, speakers, mic for voice overs etc.

Thanks so much!

You won't get anything worthwhile at that budget, it's far too restrictive for anything that you won't have to replace after a couple of years.

For any worthwhile laptop, you'd be looking at £1500 alone for the laptop, then additional for the rest.

Not in a custom laptop anyway, perhaps a branded basic option, but not custom.

 

[JonnyEnglish]

Think thats the iron in the coffin will have to switch to a mac. Thanks so much for your help mate!

 

[SpyderTracks]

Think thats the iron in the coffin will have to switch to a mac. Thanks so much for your help mate!

think you may be misunderstanding, there are plenty of windows laptop options in budget, just not custom laptops.

that being said, at that budget a MacBook Air has a fully fledge dedicated GPU that would outperform any windows laptop

 

[sck451]

For video editing, there's nothing in the laptop space that can compete with a MacBook for efficiency and size. The closest you can get is the AMD chip with the integrated 780M graphics chip, which comes in at around £1000, but it's not competitive even with a last-gen MacBook. The biggest upside is that you can spec a sensible amount of storage, which is essentially impossible with any modern Apple product.

 

[SpyderTracks]

For video editing, there's nothing in the laptop space that can compete with a MacBook for efficiency and size. The closest you can get is the AMD chip with the integrated 780M graphics chip, which comes in at around £1000, but it's not competitive even with a last-gen MacBook. The biggest upside is that you can spec a sensible amount of storage, which is essentially impossible with any modern Apple product.

With Macbooks, you just spec the basic OS drive, I'd say 512Gb is necessary these days, any other drives basically have to be external

I got a really good 2Tb USB C drive for not very much money considering the performance of 1050 mbps at £140

I actually use it as a system drive essentially for my plugin libraries for Logic Pro X

If you do choose something like this, be aware, on amazon, they seem to list a standard drive and one for Mac that's £30 more expensive, don't be fooled by this, I have no idea how they're getting away with that, there is literally no difference other than one has a file system for Mac, and the other is partitioned for windows, but you can partition any external drive as you like for any OS.

The also list it as a 2.5" form factor which again is just totally untrue! It's far smaller

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0C9WHSZZN/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1

On the left is the standard 2.5" SATA, on the right is the X9, and it's USB C to USB C on the cable, runs like a dream

 

[TonyCarter]

Don’t forget that a modern MacBook will also allow for external TB3/USB4 (40gbps) enclosures, so it may be possible to get a relatively cheap gen 4x4 2280 m.2 NVMe, like the Crucial P3 Plus, in there for 4x the performance.

But the simplest option for faster storage on a MacBook might be the Crucial X10 Pro (2000mb/s), until the full-speed TB3/USB4 options are more widely available (or at a reasonable price).

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There are some Sandisk Pro models out there claiming up to 3000mb/s, but they’re expensive, and some of the Samsung ones seem to slow down as they heat up or fill their cache.

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Meant to add that I've got a gen4 m.2 in an OWC 1M2 TB3/USB4 40gbps enclosure for the Mac (via TB3 port) and get c3000MB/s read/write...

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Not quite as fast on the PC using USB-C 3.2 Gen 2x2 though...