Laptop's under 1000$

[ruchir_ezio]

What would be the best laptop for basic video and photo editing under 1000$ with Windows 10 and nvidia GPU.

 

[dudeman509]

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.

 

[vlad1924]

What would be the best laptop for basic video and photo editing under 1000$ with Windows 10 and nvidia GPU.

MSI GE62 Apache 276

 

[ruchir_ezio]

What about HP, is it good? And which of these brands have better product life?

 

[dudeman509]

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.

 

[ruchir_ezio]

How about Acer aspire v3-574g 15"? Its packing some decent specs and I think it would be enough for basic editing. But are Acer laptops bang for the buck?

 

[dudeman509]

How about Acer aspire v3-574g 15"? Its packing some decent specs and I think it would be enough for basic editing. But are Acer laptops bang for the buck?

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]

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?

 

[ruchir_ezio]

I'll be opting for i5 5200u as the laptops with 6th gen processors would cost me around 1500$ in India.

 

[dudeman509]

Look at Haswell-based laptops, then. I wouldn't use a U-series processor for video editing. They usually come with very poor cooling solutions that will throttle speeds when worked hard for long periods of time.

 

[ruchir_ezio]

So could you help me out with some features of haswell based processors?

 

[dudeman509]

So could you help me out with some features of haswell based processors?

-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.