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[Thief^]

That's why I added "Assuming you don't upgrade to DDR4 with a new processor/motherboard soon."

[O.Wilde]

Alright, SO. I'm in the market for a new laptop. My budget is around $800, but that can change a bit. I'd like something with a sizable hard drive (750 gig would be best. 500 would also be ok) and enough power to make it possible for me to edit video without ridiculous slowdowns. Any suggestions about what to look for?

[Aklyon]

Why specifically 750gb?

[O.Wilde]

1 TB seemed excessive.

Thinking back on that though, that makes no god damned sense. Basically, I just want more than 500GB.

[Sonlirain]

Well i honestly can't say a thing about laptops but for video editing you want a good CPU with plenty of ram. 8 gigs at least.
You can check out laptop CPUs here.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/laptop.html
You probably don't want a CPU rated below 5000

Aaand... that's pretty much the extent of my help. Sorry.

[Flying Dice]

Might as well go for 1TB for the HDD. It's cheap these days and I suspect you might actually have an easier time finding something with a 1TB drive than a 750GB one.

And yeah, if you're looking to do video editing you're going to want a lot of hard drive space, especially if it's something like recording gaming footage and editing for upload, since recording high-res footage eats through space fast.

[Arx]

My dad actually bought a laptop based on pretty much those exact specs a while back. I'll ask him the exact model next time I see him.

[BigD145]

Might as well get a 'gaming' laptop, spec-wise at least. You'll pay around 1000 US for a decent spec. I have a Lenovo y700 (15 inch). It has a midrange graphics card and core i7. It came out about 6 months ago. I'm fairly happy with it. It's about as powerful as my desktop that I built about 4 years ago. It's got stereo speakers and subwoofer built in. Just stick more RAM in and maybe put a solid state drive to boot off of. Keep the 1tb 5400rpm it comes with. I put an m2 ssd in as my C drive.

[Flying Dice]

If you get a gaming laptop make damned sure it's only got a dedicated GPU and not a switching setup with both a dedicated card and integrated Intel chipset, because those are notorious for not working properly.

[crazysheep]

Speaking of laptops with switching graphics card setups: if I were to disable one of the cards through device manager, would that break anything?

[Reudh]

Speaking of laptops with switching graphics card setups: if I were to disable one of the cards through device manager, would that break anything?

It might be a better idea to force the dedicated graphics card to operate at all times. That's generally a better solution.

[crazysheep]

So far, forcing the dedicated graphics card to operate at all times has caused games to crash completely, whereas running on the integrated graphics chipset lets games run decently, if terrible looking.

[Flying Dice]

Also, some models won't actually force the dedicated card even if they say that they do. And if the auto-switching doesn't work either you're up shit creek without even a boat, never mind a paddle.

[crazysheep]

happy fun times then :p

[BigD145]

The y700 has a dedicated Nvidia 960m. Best Buy has/had a touchscreen version.