dell studio 15(1558)

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twenty10films

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hey i was wondering if anyone was using a dell studio 15(1558), if so what kind of video/graphics card is the best for the lowest price? and how much ram is possible to shove in this computer?
 
Best for what? Gaming? Editing? Surfing the web?

I'll assume video editing. I looked it up and that is a laptop. If you want to do any serious gaming/editing then a laptop is not the way to go unless you want significant cost. Will you be editing 3-4 minute pieces on there? Then sure why not? Are you going to edit Weddings on it? Maybe not your best bet. If you are editing video you want a 7200 RPM hard drive - so you're either connecting something vie eSata or firewire, if the laptop has the connection, or you're in trouble.

Then if you're editing DSLR footage, since you are posting here I will assume that, then you will want to be using a CUDA accelerated card, assuming you intend to edit in Premiere 5.5

Ok this can go on and on. Give us more information so we can help you, but if you are editing or gaming, do not go with a laptop if you can help it.
 
thundermonkey said:
Best for what? Gaming? Editing? Surfing the web?

I'll assume video editing. I looked it up and that is a laptop. If you want to do any serious gaming/editing then a laptop is not the way to go unless you want significant cost. Will you be editing 3-4 minute pieces on there? Then sure why not? Are you going to edit Weddings on it? Maybe not your best bet. If you are editing video you want a 7200 RPM hard drive - so you're either connecting something vie eSata or firewire, if the laptop has the connection, or you're in trouble.

Then if you're editing DSLR footage, since you are posting here I will assume that, then you will want to be using a CUDA accelerated card, assuming you intend to edit in Premiere 5.5

Ok this can go on and on. Give us more information so we can help you, but if you are editing or gaming, do not go with a laptop if you can help it.
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Truth be told, I bought an Inspiron 15R with a 2.4GHZ i5 chip last year for editing on the go. At the time, my main workstation was a Core2Duo 2.93Ghz with 8GB Ram. Even with CUDA, there are things the laptop rendered in significantly less time due to the vaster faster CPU.
Sure, Premiere's mercury engine and renderer can make use of those extra cores, but After Effects, Sony Vegas, and other video related processes really benefit from the most CPU power possible (in fact, telling Vegas to render with GPU goes slower 90% of the time).

In general, laptops are extremely limited in choices for video cards. If I had to pick between having only a desktop or a laptop, you will make out better with a desktop in the long run IMO. However, I find both necessary in my day-to-day work, and both perform splendidly (although until I upgraded the desktop, I did actually move compositions over the i5 laptop for the final render).
 
i am a editor, i am editing 3-4 minute sections, but i am in the works of making a full length snowboard video(45minutes) and i am on a budget and already have this laptop,
 
M. Gilden said:
Truth be told, I bought an Inspiron 15R with a 2.4GHZ i5 chip last year for editing on the go. At the time, my main workstation was a Core2Duo 2.93Ghz with 8GB Ram. Even with CUDA, there are things the laptop rendered in significantly less time due to the vaster faster CPU.
Sure, Premiere's mercury engine and renderer can make use of those extra cores, but After Effects, Sony Vegas, and other video related processes really benefit from the most CPU power possible (in fact, telling Vegas to render with GPU goes slower 90% of the time).

In general, laptops are extremely limited in choices for video cards. If I had to pick between having only a desktop or a laptop, you will make out better with a desktop in the long run IMO. However, I find both necessary in my day-to-day work, and both perform splendidly (although until I upgraded the desktop, I did actually move compositions over the i5 laptop for the final render).
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For sure, you can definately make it work. If you are in an evironment where you need a fast turnaround, then you may want more powerful stuff though.

As for rendering, I believe the MPE only deals with playback on the timeline. I do not know for sure but I think rendering the final product in Adobe Media Encoder is all CPU.

As for the laptop, since you already have it, then...I think all you can do is upgrade the RAM, really, so put as much as you can.
 
thundermonkey said:
For sure, you can definately make it work. If you are in an evironment where you need a fast turnaround, then you may want more powerful stuff though.

As for rendering, I believe the MPE only deals with playback on the timeline. I do not know for sure but I think rendering the final product in Adobe Media Encoder is all CPU.

As for the laptop, since you already have it, then...I think all you can do is upgrade the RAM, really, so put as much as you can.
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Actually, CS5 supports GPU enabled rendering as well. Part of the reason some folks get it, in fact, is that certain algorithms such as lanczos for resizing the frame (instead of the artifact-creating bicubic used with CPU rendering) is only enabled with GPU rendering. At least, that's the reason I'm personally interested in it.
 
I was more interested in the playback for native DSLR footage. No idea if it is using it for rendering automatically. If I could I would love to encode to Prores to edit with.
 
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