Best processor for video editing under $500

[newgenerationtips]

I'm looking for a laptop around $500 and I mainly needed for video editing for youtube. I got confused with amd and intel seris and also with ram and graphics card.
Guys can u please help me by suggesting a good laptop around that budget.

 

[Lutfij]

Best you follow through this thread and update your info accordingly. 500USD for a laptop to do video editing and uploading on YouTube is probably asking a lot, IMHO.

 

[mohdn2001]

A laptop?, thats hard but you can build your own pc under this budget.

I recommend the amd ryzen 5 1600 as it is great for multitasking and has a lot of power in it. Also you dont have to spend much on the cpu cooler as it comes with the stock wraith spire. For the Ram 8gb ddr4 should do the job. For the mobo go for any cheap b350 mobo. And for the gpu get a decent but not expensive gpu like the gtx 980.

 

[jaguarskx]

#1 - You can get the following HP laptop with a quad core i5-8250u for $500, but it only has a 1366x768 resolution screen and 4GB of RAM. I don't recommend this laptop because you 4GB of RAM is really not enough. Buying a stick of 4GB RAM for a total of 8GB will cost around $40 bringing the total price up to around $540. You might as well look at #2...

https://www.amazon.com/HP-Screen-Quad-Core-i5-8250U-Windows/dp/B0784ZYG27/ref=sr_1_18?ie=UTF8&qid=1523378818&sr=8-18&keywords=i5-8250u+laptop


#2 - Stepping up to $550 will get you the following Asus with the same i5-8250u CPU, but it also has a 1080p screen and 8GB of RAM. It also has very thin bezels around the screen which makes this 15.6" laptop closer to the size of a 14" laptop and it is light; weighing in at 3.7lbs.

https://www.amazon.com/VivoBook-i5-8250U-NanoEdge-Fingerprint-F510UA-AH51/dp/B0762S8PYM/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1523378818&sr=8-4&keywords=i5-8250u+laptop


#3 - The following $600 Acer laptop is the least expensive laptop that has an i5-8250u CPU and a dedicated nVidia mx150 GPU, it also has a 1080p screen and 8GB of RAM. If you used video editing programs that can take advantage of nVidia's CUDA cores, then the mx150 can speed up the editing process. I has a 256GB SSD rather than a 1TB hard drive the other laptops have. The SSD makes the laptop more responsive, but if you need more storage space, then you need to install a hard drive

https://www.amazon.com/Acer-Aspire-i5-8250U-GeForce-E5-576G-5762/dp/B075FLBJV7/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1523378818&sr=8-3&keywords=i5-8250u+laptop