New laptop again

[clarnibass]

After a few years it's time to get a new laptop. I'll use it for everything, including video editing, stills editing (including astro and macro stacks), music recording and editing, and a bunch of other things. Windows, not Apple. The laptop screen doesn't matter since I use a separate monitor anyway. I only use use 4K very occasionally.
It would be nice to have an SD card reader and several USB (regular and C) inputs, without needing a bunch of extras.

For comparison I now have a Dell Inspiron 5570 and it's fine I guess, but I was never really happy with it. I would drag along with for a few more years but unfortunately I have to replace it (too many unsolvable issues).
I'm not sure how much of a difference it makes, but my graphics card isn't supported by Adobe so it's useless for that (I understand Adobe doesn't really use the graphics card that much?).

Prices here are significantly higher than in the USA so hard to give a budget for comparison. Maybe under $1500, not sure since I haven't looked into it for a while. I don't really have a set budget, it depends on what you get for it (i.e. what is the improvement for how much more).
I'll probably use external SSDs for main storage

Mainly looking for suggestions on what to consider.

Thanks

 

[bmoag]

Any laptop with a high end AMD (6600) or Intel (12th gen), 16gb of ram and at least a 500gb internal SSD will serve your purposes. With the Intel machines you should check that the CPU is not the ultra low power U variant.

Sadly, while X86 laptops can be significantly faster than Apple ARM counterparts at a lower price, they eat much more electricity and generate more heat.

What adds additional costs to a laptop are the quality of the screen (seems irrelevant as long as it is 1080), discrete GPU, keyboard lighting, sturdier than plastic case, cooling solution, bigger storage and more RAM. Laptops that allow the user to add RAM tend to be larger in order to accommodate the non=soldered RAM modules.

In the US your budget is more than adequate for a higher end laptop with a discrete nVidia or AMD GPU, 16gb of RAM and speedy CPU. For video rendering an nVidia GPU (3060) should be helpful (as in might be) to decrease rendering times. However many laptops will thermal throttle with extended CPU/GPU intensive tasks like video rendering while also becoming inefficient space heaters.

 

[SC489]

Consider a 'professional' version laptop e.g. HP ProBook or Dell Latitude. These claim to be built to a higher standard for much the same price as consumer versions, are supplied with Windows 11 Pro and have better support.

 

[PHXAZCRAIG]

If you already have a 4k monitor and don't intend to use the laptop screen, and

If you already have issues with graphics cards, and

If you're going to use it for everything, then

why not build a desktop with the GPU you want and the storage you need? Cheaper. More choices. More power per $$.

If you need to do a few portable things, you still have your existing laptop. (And perhaps that laptop could be made faster with an SSD and other upgrades? (RAM, wifi)

 

[CAcreeks]

Mainly looking for suggestions on what to consider.

The Inspiron 16 Plus might be more inspiring than your Uninspiron 5570 was. Good value especially with 12th gen Intel. Your budget isn't high enough for XPS.

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I believe you can open the case and add a large secondary disk (as D: drive).

For alternatives, see here:

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www.notebookcheck.net

 

[bridge77]

Consider a 'professional' version laptop e.g. HP ProBook or Dell Latitude. These claim to be built to a higher standard for much the same price as consumer versions, are supplied with Windows 11 Pro and have better support.

totally agree. i have been looking at those used, they say parts are easy to get for repair. also repairs are quite easy as well as upgrades.

the construction is claimed to be far ahead of any consumer versions. the only down side i see in laptops over the years is an emphasis on 'thin'. that isn't good at all IMHO, we need thick for better cooling and ease of repair. soldering in RAM and SSD are also bad, but the pro lap tops so far do not do that.

thanks for the heads up.