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hello everyone, creating this thread to ask about what laptop i should get for HD video editing specifically using DaVinci. i dont want an Apple, so I’ve been eying the Acer Nitro V Gaming Laptop with Intel Core i9-13900H Processor and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU. is this a good choice? also, im hesitant about NVIDIA’s whole boasting about their card using AI driven graphics, would this somehow affect my future work in a negative way like image smoothing on HD TVs or is this something that’s avoidable? the laptop also has 16 gigs of RAM, would i need to get larger RAM too like the G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series (XMP) DDR4 RAM 64GB (4x16GB)? i’m a dummy when it comes to this stuff, so any help would be appreciated.

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[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm not much of an editor (kden-live), but usually lots of RAM and a fast SSD are the main things for decent performance. The CPU/GPU is used most heavily for rendering the final video in my experience. If you are not rendering out a super long video too often, then most modern many core CPUs should be good. Maybe DaVinci has more utilization of CPU/GPU when editing than Kden. I'd focus on lots of cores (vCPUs), RAM and the fastest SSD you can get (PCIE vs SATA).

[–] Computerscare@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

noted! would you say that the acer’s 512GB Gen 4 SSD and its intel processor is good?

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Acer Nitro V Gaming Laptop

I was able to find that it is PCIE SSD, so it should be pretty good. The cpu also looks pretty good from a quick glance. I'm more of an AMD person so the different core types sort of gives me some pause.

Total Cores: 14

number of Performance-cores: 6

number of Efficient-cores: 8

Total Threads: 20

So it would seem like this means you only have 6 full power cores 🤔