Confused with laptop selection and does nvedia 960MX support after effect

[Guest]

Hi, I'm just started a company working with young people, and I need a laptop for editing some videos (short films/music videos).

I was looking at a cheap laptop to be able to run Adobe Premiere and After Effects smoothly.

I was told that this laptop would run smoothly:

Lenovo Ideapad Y700 | 15 inch Gaming Laptop  | Lenovo India

Can anyone confirm this? The graphics card is not listed on the Adobe's website but I was told it's compatible? Im new to this stuff so please help, thank you.

[Szalam]

After Effects doesn't use the GPU for much, but more features are being added.

The list of GPU's on the After Effects system requirements page is only cards that have been specifically tested to work with the ray-traced renderer. That is an obsolete feature, but, if you do want to use it, you can tick the box to use "unsupported" cards in the preferences and it will work just fine.

The other GPU features in AE will be able to use that card. I'll leave it to others to discuss how it meets Premiere Pro's requirements, but I think it'd work just fine.

Make sure you get the 16 GB of RAM option. You don't want 8.

[Peru Bob]

The single 5400 RPM drive will make it very slow for Premiere Pro.  You will want the 512 GB SSD option.

[Szalam]

Peru Bob wrote:

The single 5400 RPM drive will make it very slow for Premiere Pro. You will want the 512 GB SSD option.

Same with AE. I forgot to mention that! AE's cache relies on fast disks. You definitely want an SSD for that.

[Bill_Gehrke]

The first thing you will have to do is get rid of the lousy 1TB 5400 rpm disk drive.  It is terribly slow,  I do not know how much the 512 GB SSD option is but it appears to be an option that would be worthwhile or you could upgrade it yourself.  I would also suggest getting a good external USB 3 SSD for editing video.  I have all my Premiere project files on a Samsung T3 portable USB 3.1 SSD and a internal SSD for the OS/Applications and it works very well and edits smoothly.