>need for hd editing

As I said back in reply #1 - you need an i7 to "smoothly" edit HiDef material... PLUS at least two 7200rpm hard drives (you MIGHT be able to have a 5400rpm drive for Windows and all software, but you MUST use a separate 7200rpm drive for your video files)

Did you click/read the links I provided in my 1st reply?

If you can't buy an i7 you will simply have to be ready to wait for PPro to work slowly with an i5

But, you REALLY need 2 hard drives (separate drives, never a partition)

I'd honestly recommend buying a desktop, you'll get much more speed for the money. Then just use your current laptop for surfing the web etc. Because you can build a much faster desktop for the same amount of cash you'd spend on a laptop.

I personally spent around 1700USD on one of my laptops, and about 1600USD on one of my desktops. They are both using Sandy Bridge CPU's too, however the desktop is hands down faster.

I think your budget is too small amount to get a laptop which runs smoothly AE CS6.

With 6Gb Ram you will wait a lot for rendering, and RAM preview. Especially with HD formats.Except if you just cut footages with 1 video track and render them, without effects,and  and multiple layers in AE.

I would buy these laptops for sd video editing only.Or use for very simple HD projects only.

The limit for a particular CPU (and verison of Windows... Win7 Home 64bit only goes to 16Gig, you need Win7 PRO 64bit for above 16gig) is for the CPU... the actual motherboard and BIOS may be different

What do the Acer and Asus sites say about the maximum ram for their specific models?

>Dedicated GT 630M 1GB Graphics

Have you gone to the benchmark site to see if that graphics adapter is listed?

>Both say 8gb max... is there no way to increase?

Well... if the hardware vendor says their product has a max of 8Gig, I would guess that is really the max their hardware will accept

Way back in #1 I posted links about laptop video editing... at least one of which leads to a company (or two?) that specialize in laptops for video editing

If you can't afford to buy a specialty laptop, you will simply have to use what you can afford

I only have USB2 externals, which are not fast enough for video editing... only to make SLOW TRANSFER backup copies

USB3 is supposed to be fast enough for video editing... or eSata

Right now USB3 has a better caching model with the right USB3 controller driver and firmware. A Single USB3 drive will perform faster than a single E-Sata drive. The Multibay E-Sata drives will perform better if you have a 6Gbs E-sata controller that is higher end. Most of those are $100 to $200. Is you are going with a laptop them USB3 is by far a better option.

Eric

ADK

Often times now different USB3 controllers on Client devices to not perform well with other USB3 controllers. I have run into this as well. 1 Board with Asmedia USB3 controllers performs great with the USB3 bays and then test horrible on other boards with different USB3 controllers. It normally depends on what controller the bay is using. I can tell you the Enhanced Technology USb3 units work very well with Asmedia Controllers or NEC/Renesis.

Eric

ADK

...try looking to see if a newer driver is available for your specific USB III controller....I found recently a new one for mine,and after installing it, my transfer speed to and from my external USB III dock shot up to 220MB/sec. from the original 105 MB/sec. I was getting,( using a Corsair F120 SATA II SSD in the dock).