Looking for clever minds

[Andreas Paulsen]

Hi 
I'm totally new to bying a "good" laptop computer. I'm looking to get in to some light video editing and photoshopping. using my Gopro hero 8 and mavic air. Therefore i'm looking for a laptop that can suply me with enough power to run some editing software. i made a thread earlier, where i got told that the laptop i found wasn't good enough due to it's graphic card. But i don't really know which are good and which aren't, so i'm looking for help.

So my main question is, can any of these graphic cards handle 2.7k editing? and would you recommend any of them or maybe another one?
I've read that the GeForce MX250, isn't that powerful, but can it handle editing? I'm not a gamer at all, so it's only purpose is editing, schoolwork and streaming.

I had 3 laptops in mind right now:
1: ASUS ZenBook 14" UX434FLC with Intel® Core™ i7-10510U Processor, 16GB LPDDR3-2133 RAM, 512GB M.2 NVMe SSD, Nvidia MX250 2GB GDDR5 (costing around 1328$)
2: ASUS ZENBOOK 14 UX431FL with Intel® Core™ i7-8565U, NVIDIA GeForce MX 250 2 GB, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB M.2 SSD (costing around 1143$ )

3: ASUS ZENBOOK 14 UM433DA with AMD Ryzen R7-3700U, AMD Radeon™ Vega 10 Graphics, 16 GB RAM + 1 024 GB SSD (costing around 884$ )

i'm a student here in Denmark so my budget is pretty tight, so i wasn't actually looking to spend a lot more than 900-1000$. but it seems as if the power needed costs that much.

Hope someone clever is out there and willing to help a unknowing man, on his journey to buy a new laptop! 

 

[GDRRiley]

I don't know what the availability of ASUS Zephyrus G14 (GA401II or GA401IU) or G15 (GA502IU). A slightly cheaper option would be TUF A15s

[SupaKomputa]

Since you don't game at all, just use the integrated gpu in the Ryzen cpu.

The ryzen have slightly slower gpu than MX250, but not that much.

For non gaming it should be enough.

[Andreas Paulsen]

5 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

Since you don't game at all, just use the integrated gpu in the Ryzen cpu.

The ryzen have slightly slower gpu than MX250, but not that much.

For non gaming it should be enough.

you'd believe it's sufficient for editing software as well? as to choosing option 3, if the AMD R7 almost the same as the intel I7?

[Andreas Paulsen]

9 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

I don't know what the availability of ASUS Zephyrus G14 (GA401II or GA401IU) or G15 (GA502IU). A slightly cheaper option would be TUF A15s

As to the Zephyrus g14, i cant seem to find it anywere here in denmark, only some older 15.6" costing around 2K. 
in don't really like the size of the TUF's, however if i can't find anything else as powerful it would be a great alternative!

[SupaKomputa]

Yes for editing it would be sufficient.

Not having a gpu means less complications inside your laptop.

Saves power and cooling.

[GDRRiley]

1 minute ago, SupaKomputa said:

Yes for editing it would be sufficient.

Not having a gpu means less complications inside your laptop.

Saves power and cooling.

not really those 2gb VRAM amounts are going to hurt most of those chips especially at 2.7k

9 minutes ago, Andreas Paulsen said:

you'd believe it's sufficient for editing software as well? as to choosing option 3, if the AMD R7 almost the same as the intel I7?

look for 4000 based laptops. there are now probook 445 g7 and 455 G7 they are much faster than 3000 based laptops.

[Andreas Paulsen]

8 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

look for 4000 based laptops. there are now probook 445 g7 and 455 G7 they are much faster than 3000 based laptops.

if i'm not mistaken thats the newest from AMD right? will keep that in mind also! 
The HP probooks do they go higher than the 8gb RAM ones?

[GDRRiley]

Just now, Andreas Paulsen said:

if i'm not mistaken thats the newest from AMD right? will keep that in mind also! 
The HP probooks do they go higher than the 8gb RAM ones?

yep. they are a lot faster than the 3000 chips

the 2 I listed can have ram, m.2 and a 2.5in bay all changed

[Andreas Paulsen]

3 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

the 2 I listed can have ram, m.2 and a 2.5in bay all changed

Ahh how good i'll look into that! thanks!