Two new PCs for work, plz help select

[lolitsjack]

My boss wants to spend as little money as possible, I want something that is actually usable. We need two new PCs for work, one for basic email and web browsing for ordering parts for the shop, and the other for light video editing and uploading for social media/youtube. Videos will be 1080 quality and probably less than 10min long, no special effects, just basic editing and voice overs, basically like a cheap TV commercial. Any recommendations for some complete rigs? I don't have time to build them myself, nor want to spend the time required. Laptops are fine too if they have the power to price.

[Curufinwe_wins]

Do you have a budget for reason though? And do you need monitors?

[lolitsjack]

my boss want to spend 200-300 for the video editor, i can probably get him up to $350 maximum. For monitors we will cannibalize w/e we have at the shop we have.

[lolitsjack]

We are a growing business, we produce hobbiest products. Our social media is growing, but we now need some well done tutorial videos of how to assemble, use, and troubleshoot our products. I'm assuming we can get by with no dedicated graphics card, and just a slightly more beefy CPU to get by on, but I am not sure as I have not looked into video editing as a profession before. But like I said, very LIGHT video editing.

[bleedblue]

7 minutes ago, lolitsjack said:

my boss want to spend 200-300 for the video editor, i can probably get him up to $350 maximum. For monitors we will cannibalize w/e we have at the shop we have.

Pretty hard to come up with something usable for video editing with that budget.

[Curufinwe_wins]

12 minutes ago, lolitsjack said:

my boss want to spend 200-300 for the video editor, i can probably get him up to $350 maximum. For monitors we will cannibalize w/e we have at the shop we have.

ugh... there is cheap and then there is too cheap. At that price... your only option is refurbs, and even then it won't be very good.

 

For the basic computer...

 

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAAJ270N6211&ignorebbr=1

 

For the "video editor"

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAG967WS5764&ignorebbr=1 no dedicated gpu

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAC0F7E17165&ignorebbr=1 higher price, but good-ish option with a small gpu which will dramatically speed any light video editing and usage.

[lolitsjack]

1 minute ago, Curufinwe_wins said:

ugh...

I KNOW! DON'T BLAME ME BLAME MY BOSS!!! I'm crying on the inside. Thank for the suggestions.

For some context, my boss said, "You only need 2 gigs of RAM to edit videos" 

Plz send help

Thank you for posting about the refurbs.

[Curufinwe_wins]

Just now, lolitsjack said:

I KNOW! DON'T BLAME ME BLAME MY BOSS!!! I'm crying on the inside. Thank for the suggestions.

For some context, my boss said, "You only need 2 gigs of RAM to edit videos" 

Plz send help

Thank you for posting about the refurbs.

I know) Lol. Well that last option is actually pretty good I'm not going to lie. It's basically a i7-4770 and 8GB of ram, and a cheap prosumer quaddro card for less than the original price of the cpu by itself.

[lolitsjack]

Thank you for the post/suggestion, its what were going for. Will force him to shill out the extra $36 for the 128G SSD with the 1TB drive. I can't evne begin to think how much LTT has to video edit and stuff.

[brob]

10 minutes ago, lolitsjack said:

I KNOW! DON'T BLAME ME BLAME MY BOSS!!! I'm crying on the inside. Thank for the suggestions.

For some context, my boss said, "You only need 2 gigs of RAM to edit videos" 

Plz send help

Thank you for posting about the refurbs.

Your boss is throwing money away. A major purpose of using a computer is to reduce labor cost. Cheap rigs mean higher labor costs.

 

Don't bother getting computers. A smartphone or tablet can handle email, browsing, and ordering. A slightly better phone or tablet will handle the video editing.

 

[Daniel Z.]

1 minute ago, brob said:

Your boss is throwing money away. A major purpose of using a computer is to reduce labor cost. Cheap rigs mean higher labor costs.

 

Don't bother getting computers. A smartphone or tablet can handle email, browsing, and ordering. A slightly better phone or tablet will handle the video editing.

 

This. Tell him to get a cheap tablet or laptop for light stuff, invest more in a nice PC. 

[Curufinwe_wins]

5 minutes ago, Daniel Z. said:

This. Tell him to get a cheap tablet or laptop for light stuff, invest more in a nice PC. 

You try finding a sub 300 dollar laptop that works as well any of the PC's mentioned above.

 

7 minutes ago, brob said:

Your boss is throwing money away. A major purpose of using a computer is to reduce labor cost. Cheap rigs mean higher labor costs.

 

Don't bother getting computers. A smartphone or tablet can handle email, browsing, and ordering. A slightly better phone or tablet will handle the video editing.

 

100-300 dollars doesn't get you much of a smartphone or tablet. At that point refurb desktops are a way better option.

 

Also, if they use anything like glues well... work with their hands at all, which it sounds like they do, tablets probably aren't a good idea.

[Daniel Z.]

1 minute ago, Curufinwe_wins said:

You try finding a sub 300 dollar laptop that works as well any of the PC's mentioned above.

 

100-300 dollars doesn't get you much of a smartphone or tablet. At that point refurb desktops are a way better option.

That's true. 

[brob]

2 minutes ago, Curufinwe_wins said:

You try finding a sub 300 dollar laptop that works as well any of the PC's mentioned above.

 

100-300 dollars doesn't get you much of a smartphone or tablet. At that point refurb desktops are a way better option.

The company doesn't already use smartphones and tablets? 

[Daniel Z.]

4 minutes ago, Curufinwe_wins said:

You try finding a sub 300 dollar laptop that works as well any of the PC's mentioned above.

 

100-300 dollars doesn't get you much of a smartphone or tablet. At that point refurb desktops are a way better option.

 

Also, if they use anything like glues well... work with their hands at all, which it sounds like they do, tablets probably aren't a good idea.

LOTR fan?

[Curufinwe_wins]

Just now, brob said:

The company doesn't already use smartphones and tablets? 

Using your personal device and using a work provided one are rather different.

 

Not to mention the hassle of moving data around, and they apparently make hobby products. Which probably means it won't be kept clean. (I'd be worry about glues personally)

[Curufinwe_wins]

Just now, Daniel Z. said:

LOTR fan?

Of course.

 

I always love the irony of the statement, though it wouldn't be known to most. Seeing as Feanor didn't have the best winning record in the end.

[RAM555789]

45 minutes ago, bleedblue said:

Pretty hard to come up with something usable for video editing with that budget.

Not for just basic video editing, my sisters done it on this shitty Pentium laptop that's like 6 years old. You just can't "game" and record footage but for basic editing and voice overs and stuff anything can practically handle that as long as it had the HDD space.

[SHROUD]

2 hours ago, lolitsjack said:

My boss wants to spend as little money as possible, I want something that is actually usable. We need two new PCs for work, one for basic email and web browsing for ordering parts for the shop, and the other for light video editing and uploading for social media/youtube. Videos will be 1080 quality and probably less than 10min long, no special effects, just basic editing and voice overs, basically like a cheap TV commercial. Any recommendations for some complete rigs? I don't have time to build them myself, nor want to spend the time required. Laptops are fine too if they have the power to price.

Build a x58 system.

It has pretty good 6 core xeons that can serve ur purpose. Get something like an x5670/5680/5690. ND overclock them. U can find these CPUs on eBay  fr about $80-90. Also, you can find cheap socket 1366 Mobo fr around $40. Ddr3 ram is cheap. So u can throw in 16gb. Look fr something like a 750ti. They go fr around $40-50. Get a cheapo $5-10 case. ND a decent psu like cxm series from Corsair or masterwatt series from cooler master. Also, grab a 240gb ssd. They go around fr about $40 and a 2 tb HDD. Something like this should be good fr basic video editing.

[lolitsjack]

Our company builds 3D printers. Surprisingly, it very industrial. The ones we make are mostly made of high quality metal parts that are extremely ridged. We build them from raw pieces of extruded aluminum and steel. So we order a 12ftx8inx1/2in piece of aluminum, we need to cut and mill it down, drill holes, tap holes, wash off coolant oil from cutting, hydrophobic spray, etc. Basically imagine all the process and steps that would need to be done to actually build the printer, we do all of them.

 

It basically just a large workshop with every tool under the sun, and I am in charge of our social media and instructional videos now, (Assembly, tips and tricks, etc.).

 

Boss doesn't want to spend $. Would not be appropriate to try and build a PC for the company, better to just buy one. I know how to use sony vegas pretty well, so now I have do try to do what he wants with the smallest budget that we can get away with. Basically general life stuff.

 

Thanks for the suggestions all, going to push him to buy those refurb desktops.

[grss1982]

 

14 hours ago, lolitsjack said:

My boss wants to spend as little money as possible, I want something that is actually usable. We need two new PCs for work, one for basic email and web browsing for ordering parts for the shop, and the other for light video editing and uploading for social media/youtube. Videos will be 1080 quality and probably less than 10min long, no special effects, just basic editing and voice overs, basically like a cheap TV commercial. Any recommendations for some complete rigs? I don't have time to build them myself, nor want to spend the time required. Laptops are fine too if they have the power to price.

 

Going with pre-leased OEM computers like Dells and HPs could be an option.

 

Or maybe buying directly brand new from Dell. Don't they have like discounts for businesses buying from them?