Adobe Premiere on Laptop

[Phil TK]

I need some information on the minimal processor and RAM needed to successfully run Adobe Premiere (and any other video edit progs I might want to try in the future)
I know this is a difficult question as obviously a top of the pile laptop is going to have the power to run it no problem, but these are expensive. A cheaper laptop won't have the power of course but might be acceptable even though such things as rendering might be a bit on the slow side, I could live with that. But risk of ramjam crashing and lock up I cannot
I'd be gratefull to know what people are getting away with, I don't neccessarily want to get the cheapest package I can but one that is good value.
Ta
Phil TK

 

[jonnythan]

After using Premiere for a long time on a machine with a 700MHz original Athlon, I'd venture to say that pretty much any laptop you buy today will have a fast enough processor. Get dual-core if you can swing it, though.

Whatever laptop you get, be sure to shove in as much RAM as you can find, though. RAM is cheap and increases video performance a great deal.

 

[drbill]

I've run version 5.1 on a 600 MHz PIII with 256Mb RAM and currently run version 6.0 on a 1.6 GHz P4 with 512Mb RAM, so johnnythan's comment should be right on target.

Do you really need the full version of Premiere? Why not use Premiere Elements on the laptop instead?

 

[Diver Mike]

I agree with Dr. Bill, use Elements on the laptop and save the whole deal for the desktop with lots of RAM and mega hard drive etc.

I run Elements on my HP Tablet, with no issues, I just upped the RAM to the max and I was good to go.

Mike...

 

[skinerd]

any processor will do, ram, 512 is the min, but like everyone has said, the more the better. As far as hard drive space goes, its easy to expand with external hard drives you can easily put togeather yourself for less than $200. The bonus to having the external drives is you can often get external drives that have a much higher RPM than the laptops internal drive, which is a serious bouns for editing.

 

[genxweb]

The big issue you are going to have with a laptop vs a desktop is not the mem or processor it is the hard drive write speed. Most desktops today are 72000 where most laptops are no more then 10,000 this decreases the speed at which video can be riped and encoded adding extra strain to the system processor and memory.

 

[jonnythan]

Might be a good idea to get a nice big external firewire drive, assuming the laptop has firewire.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822173022

 

[Phil TK]

The big issue you are going to have with a laptop vs a desktop is not the mem or processor it is the hard drive write speed. Most desktops today are 72000 where most laptops are no more then 10,000 this decreases the speed at which video can be riped and encoded adding extra strain to the system processor and memory.

'fraid I'm stuck with a laptop as the only choice. My videos will be edited in a little bamboo hut in Thailand. No room for a desktop but I could attach better hard drives -that sounds like a grand idea
Phil TK

 

[yceltikci]

The big issue you are going to have with a laptop vs a desktop is not the mem or processor it is the hard drive write speed. Most desktops today are 72000 where most laptops are no more then 10,000 this decreases the speed at which video can be riped and encoded adding extra strain to the system processor and memory.

let me correct some values.

desktops: mostly 7,200 rpm
notebooks: mostly: 4,200 or 5,400 rpm.

10,000 & 15,000 rpm are only found in SCSI drives (workstations and servers)

regards,
Yener

 

[genxweb]

let me correct some values.

desktops: mostly 7,200 rpm
notebooks: mostly: 4,200 or 5,400 rpm.

10,000 & 15,000 rpm are only found in SCSI drives (workstations and servers)

regards,
Yener

Woops sorry about that I was doing some research on drive speeds for a disaster recovery center as I switched over to type that post.