Greetings. I currently do all my video editing at home on my desktop which works great. I am going to invest in a laptop. I don't have the cash now to get the 17in multimedia, has more guts than my desktop, laptop- I will get that next year or the year after. Rather I am looking at 14in laptops- so I have ease transporting the think to and from work daily. I would also however like to spend some of my downtime at work editing my home video. My question(s) are this:
1) Has anybody every edited video on a Pentium Mobile Centrino chip? If so how was it?
2) Does it really make any lick of difference if you have 128mb of SHARED video memory or 128 mb of DEDICATED video memory?
I should mention, I am interested in either the Toshiba M55 or HP DV1000- both with 1 gig ram, and 5400 80 gig (or 100gig on toshiba) HDs. Both with the Pentium M 740 (1.8ghz if i recall) Thanks.
Out of curiousity: Hardware/experience question
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maddrummer3301
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I will share what I don't like and like about my HP laptop P4-2.8gig 533FSB laptop.
The HP is built well though and isn't as fragile as others.
Battery time is nothing. Mobile processors run for hours on battery.
I also have the 15.4 screen (larger than the average, think it's 15.4).
That's the nature of the beast I guess having a P4.
Slow harddrive.
No built-in firewire port. Using an adaptec pcmcia card for firewire.
Shared memory, don't like it, ATI video using shared memory.
Much prefer Nvidia (my opinion of course) but Nvidia software can
perform much better virtual desktops.
Dedicated memory is better.
Video-Editing should be 1 gig ram. Make sure it's easy to upgrade memory. Some companies will put 2 - 256mByte modules for 512.
To goto 1 gig you will then usually have to purchase 2 - 512mByte chips
instead of just one.
What I do like about it?
Dependable for me, wireless under XP is nice, received the actual
windows xp disk with it instead of on the harddrive.
Big keyboard for big fingers!
Nice touchpad (programmable).
Model HP pavillion zv5000.
Remember, the longer you wait the better they get.
Hope this helps,
MD
The HP is built well though and isn't as fragile as others.
Battery time is nothing. Mobile processors run for hours on battery.
I also have the 15.4 screen (larger than the average, think it's 15.4).
That's the nature of the beast I guess having a P4.
Slow harddrive.
No built-in firewire port. Using an adaptec pcmcia card for firewire.
Shared memory, don't like it, ATI video using shared memory.
Much prefer Nvidia (my opinion of course) but Nvidia software can
perform much better virtual desktops.
Dedicated memory is better.
Video-Editing should be 1 gig ram. Make sure it's easy to upgrade memory. Some companies will put 2 - 256mByte modules for 512.
To goto 1 gig you will then usually have to purchase 2 - 512mByte chips
instead of just one.
What I do like about it?
Dependable for me, wireless under XP is nice, received the actual
windows xp disk with it instead of on the harddrive.
Big keyboard for big fingers!
Nice touchpad (programmable).
Model HP pavillion zv5000.
Remember, the longer you wait the better they get.
Hope this helps,
MD
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rwindeyer
I have done all my video editing on a Centrino laptop. Firstly an Acer TravelMate (1.6 Gh, 512 Mb RAM, 64 MB video memory) then after that died I got a NEC Versa M540 - 1.8 Gh, 512 Mb RAM, 128 Mb video memory). Had no problems whatever.
I think dedicated video memory would be the way to go.
I find it useful to store all video on an external hard drive (bought from the local shop, Western Digital 120 Gb 7200 RPM).
My laptops have had firewire and multiple USB ports, are easy to use, and the NEC screen (1280 X 800) is exceptionally bright and easy to see.
Hope that helps.
I think dedicated video memory would be the way to go.
I find it useful to store all video on an external hard drive (bought from the local shop, Western Digital 120 Gb 7200 RPM).
My laptops have had firewire and multiple USB ports, are easy to use, and the NEC screen (1280 X 800) is exceptionally bright and easy to see.
Hope that helps.