I'd say windows based PC, mainly due to raw horsepower you are going to need. Specifically 1080p video editing has been around for years, so OP would have no problem feeling snappy & decently fast with a laptop containing an 8 thread i7 + dedicated at least mid range nvidia gpu before opencl acceleration, before quad core, what were professionals using? My point is a good laptop isnt crap & tons of adobe CS or 3ds max or UDK users are on regular mainstream parts instead of 6core xeonsĪs you go back in time.

my i7-2670QM has 8 threads, so it can render faster than my 3.6ghz overclocked q9550 4thread desktop cpu.

my 570m gpu built in 2011 is slightly faster than a 5770 desktop card from 2009, plenty of video editors & schools would be on 5770s or even worse cards since video editing isnt crysis.

but forget about all that, 8970m is a rebrand, we all know mobile amd sucks) OP, what are you currently using to do your videos? we can extrapolate a comparisonīecause every desktop had a $400 5870 in it? no need to cherry pick like that, i'm not saying desktops suck & laptops rule (you also compared the wrong gpu, you want 8970m with 1280, not that performance linearly scales when they have the same TMUs, ROPs, & CUs. So my vote is certainly for an MSI or equivalent, the MBP is just not valuable at all to me other than its exterior design, retina, & the various perks of OSX (terminal, perl, ruby, various web dev tools) i run cinema 4d, after effects, battlefield 3, no problem. I have an MSI 'gaming' laptop, i7-2670QM + gtx 570m + 8gb ddr3 + 750gb ST9750420AS, it's 1080p but that only matters if you're using it without a monitor, it's quiet, it's sturdy, it has an eSATA port & usb3. like OP said, 1080p, that's not really that demandingĬonsider this, a bluray video stream would be ~25mbit on the disc, that's barely over 3MBytes/s! Super PI 32m: 6m 42s 472ms people still think laptops arent suited? desktops a few years ago ran slower than these modern 'gaming' laptopsĪll you need is cpu performance for rendering/encoding/processing, lots of ram for after effects, dedicated gpu for certain acceleration & general snappiness, hard drive.

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Win vs mac for video editing