I am currently heavily researching for a very good laptop that has a great balance between the price and the configuration and power. My budget for it is not very high, maybe let’s say around GBP 1000…
So armed with all that very clear information, I started to research the huge ocean of offers out there, which is in my humble opinion, extremely confusing, making this choosing activity quite annoying.
But not all hope is lost. So, we know a video/3d laptop definitely needs to firstly have a great video card, capable of heavy rendering, with at least 6GB RAM.
Since I love Blender as both 3D and Video editor, I found they actually made a top of the best video cards bencharked by their team: https://opendata.blender.org/
There is another good article here: https://www.pugetsystems.com/solutions/3d-design-workstations/blender/hardware-recommendations/
Then, the video files take tons of space, so a minimum of 1TB of hard disk space is required.
OMEN by HP 16-b1001na Gaming Laptop with Core™ i7 and RTX™ 3070 Ti | Acer Predator Helios 300 PH315-55 | ASUS ROG Zephyrus G15 15.6″ Gaming Laptop | MSI GF66 Katana 15.6″ 240Hz FHD Core i7 RTX 3070 Ti | Dell G15 Gaming Laptop – Obsidian Black Special Edition | DELL G15 5520 15.6″ Gaming Laptop – Intel® Core™ i9, RTX 3070, 1 TB SSD |
£1,394 | £1,449 | £1,899 | £1,398 | £1,479 | £1,449 |
Intel® Core™ i7 12700H (12th Generation) | Intel Core i7-12700H | AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS Processor | i7-12700H Intel Processor | 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-12900H | Intel® Core™ i9-12900H Processor |
16 GB RAM | 16GB | RAM: 16 GB DDR5 / | 16GBDDR4 Memory | 16 GB, 2 x 8 GB, DDR5, 4800 MHz, dual-channel | 16 GB DDR5 |
1 TB SSD | 1TB SSD | Storage: 1 TB SSD | 1TBPCIe NVMe SSD | 1TB SSD | 1 TB SSD |
NVIDIA® GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU (8 GB GDDR6 dedicated) | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070Ti (Its 8GB GDDR6) | Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB | GeForce RTX 3070 Ti NVIDIA Graphics | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070Ti (Its 8GB GDDR6) | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB |
Display: 40.9 cm (16.1″) diagonal, QHD (2560 x 1440), 165 Hz, 3 ms response time, IPS, micro-edge, anti-glare, Low Blue Light, 300 nits, 100% sRGB | 15.6 inch | 15.6″ | 15.6 | 15.6″, QHD 2560 x 1440, 240Hz, WVA, Non-Touch, Anti-Glare, 400 nit, Narrow Border, LED-Backlit | 15.6″ Full HD screen / 165 Hz 1920 x 1080p |
Touchscreen: No | Touchscreen: No | Touchscreen: No | Touchscreen: No | Touchscreen: No | Touchscreen: No |
Backlit keyboard: Yes (RGB) | Backlit keyboard: Yes (RGB) | Backlit keyboard: Yes (RGB) | Backlit keyboard: Yes (red) | Internal UK/Irish Qwerty Backlit Keyboard with Numeric Keypad (No G-Key) | Backlit membrane keyboard with numerical keypad |
Keyboard numeric pad: No | Keyboard numeric pad: Yes | Keyboard numeric pad: No | Keyboard numeric pad: Yes | Keyboard numeric pad: Yes | Keyboard numeric pad: Yes |
Can use 3 Monitors: Yes | Can use 2 Monitors: Yes | Can use 2 Monitors: Yes | Can use 2 Monitors: No | Can use 2 Monitors: Yes | Can use 2 Monitors: Yes |