Lenovo Y540 as an editing laptop ?

[paranoing]

Hi! long time fan of the channel, but first time ever to this forum.

 

I'm looking for a budget ($999 or under) laptop for video editing (1080p, 4k) and since my budget is limited, I was looking through 'gaming' laptop territory with fairly good screen color reproduction.

I stumbled on this Lenovo Y540. It is cheap (compare to workstation laptops), comes with 6-core gen 9 'i7' and fairly adequate screen for some color grading. 

(I was interested in ideapad L340 (cheaper with the same spec, plus good discount on my country) but from the reviews, the screen is quite awful)

I know there're the newer 10th gen i7s, but they are either U or G model, which all come with 4-core (except 1) and have slower base cpu fequency.

 

I'm welcome for any other suggestion! but please bare in mind, the model you suggest might 1) not be available in my country 'THAILAND' 2) be wayy more expensive here.

 

Thanks for any answer in advance!

 

ps. I'm thinking about upgrading my PC as well. Currently using...

i7-4770 with original heatsink (should,ve at least buy a $40-60 heatsink)

16GB 1600Mhz RAM

Asrock Fatality H87

GTX 1070

Corsair 750i

Coasair 600T case

I plan to upgrade to Ryzen 3700x with 32GB 3200Mhz RAM. I also want to reduce the case size a little, so I'm looking for Micro ATX, Mini ITX motherboard/

 

If you also have suggestion for motherboard, I'm more than welcome! (don't know if I should use X570 or B450. I don't plan to overclock)

[SeraphicWings]

The Y540 is great for video editing, that is if you can hook it to an external monitor, because the 60hz panel is god awful in terms of color gamut, color accuracy and brightness.

Is it running the 9750H and the 1650? Then it might get a bit hot, keep that in mind.

 

[TheBean]

why do you need a editing laptop if you already have a desktop you plan on upgrading?

[paranoing]

19 minutes ago, SeraphicWings said:

The Y540 is great for video editing, that is if you can hook it to an external monitor, because the 60hz panel is god awful in terms of color gamut, color accuracy and brightness.

Is it running the 9750H and the 1650? Then it might get a bit hot, keep that in mind.

 

is 93% sRGB and 72% AdobeRGB still consider awful ? (literal question, I don't really know)

Yes, it is 9750H and GTX1650. I'm ok with heat or loud fan, as long as it doesn't throttle. Hopefully this one doesn't!

 

18 minutes ago, Saksham said:

why do you need a editing laptop if you already have a desktop you plan on upgrading?

Becuase lately my nature of work requires some 'on-the-fly' editing more often, so I want to be prepare for that.

Nevertheless, that's a good point. I could settle for less, maybe i5-9300H since it still can do editing (with patience.)

My company's setup is Macbook 15 mid 2016 (core i7) and honestly it can edit just fine (somehow even better than my PC setup when real-time playbacking), but the integrated graphic is so bad that Premiere would crashed at least twice per project. Still, it can do the job.

[SeraphicWings]

4 minutes ago, paranoing said:

is 93% sRGB and 72% AdobeRGB still consider awful ? (literal question, I don't really know)

Yes, it is 9750H and GTX1650. I'm ok with heat or loud fan, as long as it doesn't throttle. Hopefully this one doesn't!

 

Becuase lately my nature of work requires some 'on-the-fly' editing more often, so I want to be prepare for that.

Nevertheless, that's a good point. I could settle for less, maybe i5-9300H since it still can do editing (with patience.)

My company's setup is Macbook 15 mid 2016 (core i7) and honestly it can edit just fine (somehow even better than my PC setup when real-time playbacking), but the integrated graphic is so bad that Premiere would crashed at least twice per project. Still, it can do the job.

If you got that panel then it's decent enough

In my country almost all laptop manufacturers ship their budget gaming laptop with a 45% NTSC screen (around 60-ish percent sRGB), which is just an eye sore to see

[paranoing]

7 minutes ago, SeraphicWings said:

If you got that panel then it's decent enough

In my country almost all laptop manufacturers ship their budget gaming laptop with a 45% NTSC screen (around 60-ish percent sRGB), which is just an eye sore to see

Oh, that's good to know. Thanks!

On my coundtry's website there're 2 choices of 60Hz 1080p panel, the first one says 'narrow' on the name, and is $30ish cheaper. Maybe that's the awful panel you mentioned.

Edited October 31, 2019 by paranoing
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[TheBean]

when editing photos, look at mainly the adobergb. I would say minimum 80% because it matters.