2000$ 4K editing laptop

[blazrogelsek]

Hi. I'm looking to buy a new video editing laptop. I want it to be able to edit 4K videos in Adobe Premiere. My priority is smooth playback in the timeline, I don't really care too much about fast rendering. I just want relatively smooth playback. 

 

My budget is around 2000$ / 2000€.

 

As far as I know I have two options;

- Gaming laptop with a Pascal graphics card (GTX1060 for example), i7 6700 cpu, 16/32gb ram, SSD

- ultrabook with the new Kaby Lake i7 7500u (which should be optimized for 4K video), but no gaming graphics and max. 16GB RAM. It's more portable and battery life should be great. 

 

I know a gaming laptop with Pascal graphics would be a safe bet, but my question is - how good are Kaby Lake processors (namely 7500u) for editing? Again, I want to know about playback in Adobe Premiere. Does anyone here own one and edits 4K video on it? It's still hard to find anything useful online since they have just been released

 

Thanks!

[phoon]

1 minute ago, blazrogelsek said:

Hi. I'm looking to buy a new video editing laptop. I want it to be able to edit 4K videos in Adobe Premiere. My priority is smooth playback in the timeline, I don't really care too much about fast rendering. I just want relatively smooth playback. 

 

My budget is around 2000$ / 2000€.

 

As far as I know I have two options;

- Gaming laptop with a Pascal graphics card (GTX1060 for example), i7 6700 cpu, 16/32gb ram, SSD

- ultrabook with the new Kaby Lake i7 7500u (which should be optimized for 4K video), but no gaming graphics and max. 16GB RAM. It's more portable and battery life should be great. 

 

I know a gaming laptop with Pascal graphics would be a safe bet, but my question is - how good are Kaby Lake processors (namely 7500u) for editing? Again, I want to know about playback in Adobe Premiere. Does anyone here own one and edits 4K video on it? It's still hard to fing anything useful online since they have just been released

 

Thanks!

so it is true that 6700hq is better than the 7500u but since the kaby lake processors have a better 4k codec in them (something along those lines) pretty much kaby is better in 4k than sky and i suggest looking as a razer stealth laptop

[Pendragon]

4 hours ago, blazrogelsek said:

- ultrabook with the new Kaby Lake i7 7500u (which should be optimized for 4K video), but no gaming graphics and max. 16GB RAM. It's more portable and battery life should be great. 

it's only optimized for 4k play back, encoding and decoding. nothing to do with editing. playback may be smoother, compared to  ULV skylake chip, but quad cores are still the way to go. You'll get smooth play back with both. You should definitely be going for a quad core with a dGPU for editing still.