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There are several in that price range with a quad-core i5 or i7 and GTX 960. Dell, Asus, Acer - take your pick. I like the Inspiron i7559 for price/features, personally.

A GTX 970m will put you slightly out of that price range.

dudeman509

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There are several in that price range with a quad-core i5 or i7 and GTX 960. Dell, Asus, Acer - take your pick. I like the Inspiron i7559 for price/features, personally.

A GTX 970m will put you slightly out of that price range.
 
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dudeman509

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HP is hit or miss in my book.

We've had one since 2009 that has been an amazing laptop. My Elitebook 8760w (work laptop) was a piece of crap. I would consider spending my own money on my replacement work laptop, an Elitebook 840 G2 - very impressed with it.

HP printers...ugh.
 

dudeman509

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Which model are you looking at? I see them with a i5-5200U and i7-5500U.

Both of these are 2-core, 15W low-power, low-heat, long battery life chips. They deliver very well for that, and basic computer tasks; however, they don't have much grunt when it comes to raw processing power.

For video editing, you should be looking at a "HQ" or "MQ" 4-core processor like the i5-6300HQ or i7-6700HQ.
 

ruchir_ezio

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I've been using a lenovo ideapad z580 with a 2nd gen i3 dual core 4gb RAM and gt630 gpu with an ssd for on the go editing purpose, it performs decently for basic editing. So in comparison to that I'm guessing this would be much better. Right?
 

dudeman509

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-DDR3 only
-Gen 4 vs 5 or 6.
-Run slightly warmer, slightly less power efficient.

However, they are great performers and very close to Skylake processors in single-thread and multi-threaded performance.

Look for something with an I7-4710 or 4720HQ.