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General powell11
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Hey i need help finding a laptop that will run adobe after effects smoothly without lagging etc... anyone have any ideas, i dont know much about computers. try to keep it in the $1500 dollar range

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 13th Apr 2009 00:40
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Hmm, something from the Adobe Suite? A video editor? Never used it but that combination sounds like it needs a Cray supercomputer.

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Posted: 13th Apr 2009 00:48
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My Laptop run After Effects CS3 perfectly well. It is a:

Model: Dell XPS M1530
CPU: Intel Core2 T5800 2.0Ghz
RAM: 4GB
Gfx: Nvidia Geforce 8600M GT

... and it cost £799, which according to xe.com is $1,169.10 so well within your budget.



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David R
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Posted: 13th Apr 2009 00:49
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I really wouldn't bother running it on a laptop. Anything that can use it effectively would most likely have a very large quantity of RAM (4GB+) to make up for the fact that a scratch-pad on the hard disk would be slow (most laptops use 5400RPM hard disks) - which means it's going to set you back quite a bit.


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General powell11
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i want it on a laptop so i can edit whereever i go because i travel a lot and for school

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A nice power laptop should be fine if it isn't a mac. Just make sure you go with an upper XPS system with 4gb or more of ram. Like scraggle said, actually.

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General powell11
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are dells good, some people say dont get dells? why is that?

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Because they explode.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/laptops/dell-laptop-explodes-in-flames-182257.php

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Personally for me it's their business practices.

They charge too much for their stuff (Way cheaper even at other higher end retailrs (hp) ).
Their Outta state support should be free. The only reason I ever use support is so I can get things repaired. I expect a company to do that for free even if I never purchased support.

Just two of my personal opinions.

Edit: Oh and if you're using a school's After Affects. Be careful. I had a teacher get scolded for using her personal laptop for her classroom (She had attendance software etc on it). They said that she can't do that. Not sure about your state/country but that's the way it was here.

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Luckily, us Aussie kids are all gonna get macbooks soon enough. I dunno what they're thinking; the first thing I'm gonna do is install blender and photoshop on there.

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Everyone in the class is getting a free premium notebook? How the?

My experience with school notebooks was they were tethered to a base station by ten metre Kensington locks, all had 486 processors, 64mb of RAM, WiFi cards that didn't fit properly and XP. So, yeah, that was fun.

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http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22760622-2862,00.html

I'm not quite sure what the specifications are, but all I know is that one of my friends overheard a teacher saying that the school's decided to chip in and get macbooks.

Good 'ol mister Rudd.

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General powell11
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its my own version of after effects, hmm macbooks do sound good bc after effects can run on them but somewhere i heard that windows was much better for after effects

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Quote: "My experience with school notebooks was they were tethered to a base station by ten metre Kensington locks, all had 486 processors, 64mb of RAM, WiFi cards that didn't fit properly and XP. So, yeah, that was fun."


Everything you mentioned is pretty much what the school notebooks at our school are, except that they are MAC computers. And about 30% of them crash when starting. (Grey screen, apple in the middle and a wheel underneath. It stays like that until you rip the battery out.)

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Quote: "They charge too much for their stuff "


What computer manufacturer doesn't nowadays? Apple especially.

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