CS5 on a Laptop (Thinkpad)

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I have an i7 in the studio with CS5 and looking to get a small thinkpad to carry around for a variety of work tasks. Lenovo makes this quite cheap laptop

(Lenovo B460-4042
Core i3 350M 2.26Ghz, 14.1" WXGA, 1GB, 320GB, DVDRW, Intel GMA, Card Reader, Wifi, Bluetooth, Camera, DOS

I'm not looking at heavy editing on this pup but, can I install CS5 (or CS4) and at least do a few basic tasks on the road like transcoding some shots and doing some offline, so I can at least get a jump start on my editing before I return to the studio.

BTW I shoot with an EX3 and a Canon 5D 7D and 550D in 1080 25p
 
That would be a poor choice, IMO.

I have a Lenovo T410 with a Core i5, 4Gb of memory, and a 7200 rpm 500Gb disk. My video workstation for CS5 uses a Core i7/920 OC'd to 3.8Gz (with water cooling), raid disks, and 12Gb of high-speed memory. It works pretty well, but it's definitely NOT extreme. I wouldn't even consider editing HD video on my laptop.

If you do, you'll want Win7 64 Bit for the OS. For video editing, I'd suggest at LEAST 4Gb. Laptops don't have the fastest disk system. With a memory hog like CS5 and limited memory available, the system will swap memory out to the page file. On a laptop, that will be s.l.o.w.

Regarding the brand, I think Lenovo makes great laptops. I love mine. That said, I'm not sure they are the best for video work.

Regards,

Dan.
 
Thanks Dan, that's exactly what I needed to hear to come down from the clouds.

I guess the best plan is to buy another lens which I need more than a laptop, and wait to edit in the studio with the i7. Maybe adding the other 21gigs of ram to my i7 would make things smoother as well.
 
I have a Lenovo W510, i7, 16GB ram, Win7 64 and it handles CS5 very satisfactorily. I have no problem editing with the native files off of my 7D as long as I keep the playback resolution at 1/2. This is without the hardware hack.
 
I am also running CS5 on a W510 with Win64. I only have 4GB but it's proven to be plenty, CS5 runs (as mhood said) "very satisfactorily". The key to snappy CS5 performance is to have a good processor and an nVidia graphics card. Don't try to run it on a laptop that has the Intel GMA, you want an nVidia CUDA-enabled card (and if it's not on CS5's approved list, hack the list so your card shows up). I get realtime fullscreen AVCHD playback and editing with this combo.
 
Yeah I have been editing for a while on an older computer using Cineform, and it works fine.
About 3 months ago, I sold that laptop and bought an MSI GT 660R for $1650 USD
I still use cineform, but now It is smooth like editing SD, no matter what I do, or how many layers I want to add.

The laptop comes with 2 500 gig hard drives in a raid config.
i7 Processor
Nvidia Cuda enabled GTX 285 video card with 800 or so megs of video ram.
6 gigs of Regular ram,
Dyna Audio sound system.
Turbo boost that over clocks the processor AND the video card, plus Blu Ray.

The only negative is the display is not full HD, and the screen quality is not so good.

I can edit anything though, full frame and full frame rate.
I think it is the best bang for the buck.
 
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