Creative Multimedia Student Looking For New Laptop

Sir Richard of Awesome

Budget: €500-600, more if need be, preferably free.

Intended use: I am doing creative multimedia so I need a fairly decent machine, rendering video and animation, and running powerful applications like after effects. I also do a lot of graphic design work, also any bells and whistles that can aid me in my work, I'd also like a decently sized hard drive on the machine as well. I'd also like a good sound card ad graphics card

Mobility: I'm not too pushed about size and weight

Warranty: I'd like a half decent warranty but it is far from a deal breaker

What Operating System do you use? I want a windows 7 machine, I don't like apple products.

I would be very grateful for any help you can give me, I looked around a bit but it can be difficult to figure out what would be value for money and what would be a pain in a years time.

Sync

Check saveonlaptops.co.uk , I got a good deal off them recently (at least I think it was :P)

Torqay

I had this ASUS posted in another thread earlier.

Slightly beyond your budget but CPU power and memory in abundance and if you're using Adobe Premiere, it will greatly benefit from the NVIDIA card with CUDA.

Within your budget you'll find similarly specced Core i5 laptops but with video processing you simply can't have enough raw CPU power.

_AVALANCHE_

Torqay wrote: »

I had this ASUS posted in another thread earlier.

Slightly beyond your budget but CPU power and memory in abundance and if you're using Adobe Premiere, it will greatly benefit from the NVIDIA card with CUDA.

Within your budget you'll find similarly specced Core i5 laptops but with video processing you simply can't have enough raw CPU power.

Yea, I wouldn't hang about if ordering this, it's being awhile since they had top spec Asus at that price. She'll have wings this one.

Only two that will compete with it is this one, german site so one would expect german keyboard layout but pic 4 shows it's a normal qwerty.

Or this Dell for €725 using this code B2X$JFXHZZQCL8

2nd generation Intel® Core™ i7-2670QM (2.20 Ghz, 6MB, 4C)

LCD15.6"(40 cm) High Definition (1366X768) WLED with True-Life
CameraIntegrated 1.0 Mega Pixel Widescreen HD (1280 x 720) camera

Video Card1 GB nVidia GeForce GT 525M (Quad Core)

Memory 8192MB 1333MHz Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM [2x4096]

Hard Drive 1TB (5,400rpm) Serial ATA Drive

Optical Devices 8X DVD+/-RW Drive

_AVALANCHE_

Sir Richard of Awesome wrote: »

Budget: preferably free.

Torqay

Since Intel had delayed the new Ivy Bridge generation, you'll find some sweet 2 Gen Core i7 deals < €700 if you shop around.

Sir Richard of Awesome

I ended up buying
http://www.harveynorman.ie/acer-5750-i5b.html
as I needed one quickly due to project work but I kept your advice in mind.

Thanks to everyone who contributed

damul

Torqay wrote: »

I had this ASUS posted in another thread earlier.

Slightly beyond your budget but CPU power and memory in abundance and if you're using Adobe Premiere, it will greatly benefit from the NVIDIA card with CUDA.

Within your budget you'll find similarly specced Core i5 laptops but with video processing you simply can't have enough raw CPU power.

am I missing something or where does it give the graphics card information here

I done a search in Google for Asus K53SC-SX451V and I am not finding any full specification for laptop

I have just found it here

Torqay

damul wrote: »

am I missing something or where does it give the graphics card information here

It's out of stock now anyway... sold out pretty fast.