Best laptop to run Adobe Premiere Pro CC??

[maryp96584381]

Looking for recommendations from people who do a lot of video editing.

I'm starting a communications program where I will be doing a lot of video and photo editing. I just want a laptop that can run Adobe Premiere Pro smoothly.

It seems like the GPU card recommendations on the system requirements website might be outdated, because I can't seem to find many laptops that match up with those listed GPU cards.

Initially I was looking into buying an Asus Zenbook Pro UX501 (mostly because the $1500 is pretty affordable), but read that the incompatible GPU card was a problem. Now I am thinking of increasing my budget, and wondering if its worth it to just fork over the money for a new Macbook Pro because its easier than sifting through the internet for an adequate PC.

[Peru Bob]

What type of media will you be editing?

Lots of discussion here:

https://forums.adobe.com/search.jspa?q=which%20laptop

[maryp96584381]

Thanks for the link to the other discussions.

I will be editing photos and video from my DLSR camera - the video is 1080p. I don't think the videos I will be editing will be long, likely around 5-10minutes.

I had been thinking about the Asus Zenbook Pro but was concerned because the GTX 960M wasn't posted as a compatible GPU on the system requirements list. Do you think that's a problem, or will the 960M do the job just fine?

[Bill_Gehrke]

Sure wish they would update that Zenbook line with the GTX 10 series nVidia graphics, but yes the GTX 960M will work, just not as well as what I would like.if I were to get a new laptop.

[Bill_Gehrke]

Answer Peru Bob's question

The ASUS ZenBook UX-501VW has this as a graphics card options

"NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960M with 2G/4G GDDR5 VRAM"

That should work ok with some simple media types, simple editing workflows and providing the on board storage configuration is adequate.