Best Laptops for Video Editing 2020: Making One, Two, Three Videos


A com­put­er for edit­ing is a very niche and spe­cif­ic device. It must have a high-per­for­mance fill­ing and a high-qual­i­ty screen. And if we talk about lap­tops, then things are even more com­pli­cat­ed. Not only is it quite dif­fi­cult to find a per­fect­ly bal­anced solu­tion for cer­tain needs, but we also get inflat­ed price tags due to low con­sumer demand for such devices. Also exac­er­bates the sit­u­a­tion and the com­plex­i­ty of upgrad­ing portable devices. But noth­ing is impos­si­ble. There­fore, we have select­ed the best mod­els and com­piled the top lap­tops for video edit­ing 2020.

Primary requirements

As men­tioned above, this is hard­ware and a screen. Par­tic­u­lar­ly strong among all oth­er com­po­nents should be allo­cat­ed to the proces­sor. It is respon­si­ble for com­put­ing and pro­cess­ing infor­ma­tion. Name­ly, these process­es are active­ly tak­ing place in the com­put­er while work­ing in a hypo­thet­i­cal Adobe After Effects. How­ev­er, many mod­ern pro­grams sup­port ren­der­ing, encod­ing and hard­ware accel­er­a­tion using a video card or even using both main com­po­nents: proces­sor + graph­ics core. There­fore, if you want to get the most pro­duc­tive gad­get, the pur­pose of which is video pro­cess­ing, then you should con­sid­er mod­els with dis­crete graph­ics, and at a fair­ly high lev­el. Of course, devices equipped only with a plug-in will be much cheap­er, but their capa­bil­i­ties are much less. There­fore, we can absolute­ly say for sure that a mod­ern com­put­er for video edit­ing is not much dif­fer­ent from a pre­mi­um class gam­ing machine. Both there and there are pow­er­ful hard­ware, as well as large amounts of RAM.


Speak­ing of mem­o­ry. If you think you can get by with a cou­ple of 4 GB sticks, then you are wrong. All video edit­ing pro­grams are designed in such a way that the data loaded into the active project is stored in the RAM cache. There­fore, it turns out that the more effects in the cre­at­ed video and the longer it is, the more RAM you will need. In our opin­ion, the opti­mal val­ues ​​​​are 16–32 GB. 8 — lit­tle, 64 — expen­sive. Still, we focus on the price too. Oth­er­wise, what is the point of rank­ing the best lap­tops for video edit­ing, if you can just go and buy the most expen­sive and stuffed mod­el?

As for the screen, it must be at least 15 inch­es and be based on a high-qual­i­ty matrix that will have good col­or repro­duc­tion. The res­o­lu­tion is the high­er the bet­ter. How­ev­er, we will not focus on QHD and 4K, since such mod­els are still unrea­son­ably expen­sive. In most cas­es, clas­sic Full HD will suf­fice. You can read more about screen selec­tion in a sep­a­rate arti­cle.

Pur­chase

Mon­i­tor matrix: which is bet­ter? Find out before you buy

The final link of any com­put­er will be a high-speed SSD dri­ve. After all, it not only speeds up the load­ing of the oper­at­ing sys­tem and its process­es. It also direct­ly affects the speed of data pro­cess­ing while work­ing in a video edit­ing pro­gram. In this case, the sys­tem disk does not have to be large. It makes no sense to store ren­dered projects on an SSD, because they can take hun­dreds of giga­bytes. The most cor­rect choice, in our opin­ion, is a com­bi­na­tion of a 256–512 GB SSD and a clas­sic 1–2 TB HDD.

Now that the basic require­ments are deter­mined, you can start choos­ing a lap­top for pho­to­shop and video edit­ing. Get ready for impres­sive specs and equal­ly impres­sive price tags.

DELL G5 3590null

Opens our top one of the most afford­able devices in its cat­e­go­ry. The price tag starts at about 650$. For such mon­ey, the user will receive at his dis­pos­al a 6‑core 12-thread Intel Core i7 9750H proces­sor. This is one of the most com­mon CPU mod­els in pre­mi­um lap­tops. Also, the device is equipped with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti graph­ics card, which has 6 GB of video mem­o­ry. The amount of RAM is 16 GB. Planks work in two-chan­nel mode. The max­i­mum amount of RAM that the moth­er­board sup­ports is 32 GB.


The stor­age con­fig­u­ra­tion is as fol­lows: 1000 GB HDD and 256 GB SSD. As we wrote above, in our opin­ion, this is the opti­mal set­up. The screen is not infe­ri­or to the rest of the hard­ware in terms of tech­ni­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics: its diag­o­nal is 15.6 inch­es. It is based on an IPS matrix with a refresh rate of 144 Hz. The weak­est point of the gad­get is the bat­tery life, which is only 4 hours. How­ev­er, video edit­ing can very quick­ly dis­charge even devices with high auton­o­my. It is also worth con­sid­er­ing that the devel­op­er chose Lin­ux as the pre­in­stalled oper­at­ing sys­tem. For some, this fact may be a sig­nif­i­cant rea­son for not buy­ing.

Even though the gad­get can’t work with­out a pow­er out­let for a long time, we think it’s a good starter kit that will han­dle heavy work­loads dur­ing video edit­ing. How­ev­er, to cre­ate long-term video con­tent, it is bet­ter to get a more pow­er­ful machine, because even such hard­ware is con­sid­ered rel­a­tive­ly weak in the world of edi­tors.

ASUS ROG GL731GT-AU169

If you want a mod­el with a large diag­o­nal, you will have to addi­tion­al­ly part with anoth­er 100$. The ROG line is posi­tioned as a gam­ing line, but it is also per­fect for edit­ing. Unlike the pre­vi­ous mod­el, ASUS focus­es on the screen. And although the polling fre­quen­cy is low­er here (60 Hertz), the diag­o­nal is 17.3 inch­es. How­ev­er, you will have to sac­ri­fice the capa­bil­i­ties of the graph­ics core.


The NVIDIA GeForce 1650 graph­ics card is installed here. It lags far behind the GTX 1660 Ti. On aver­age, the per­for­mance dif­fer­ence between them is 60–65% in favor of the first mod­el. If you are sure that the pro­gram you are run­ning does not sup­port ren­der­ing with a video card, then this should not play a big role in the pur­chase. All the same, it is more com­fort­able to work on a large screen, which means that you can make a choice in favor of this gad­get. The proces­sor here is the same: Intel Core i7 9750H. And the amount of RAM is iden­ti­cal: 16 GB.

Despite the fact that the graph­ics adapter is weak­er here, charg­ing will also last you 4 hours, as in the pre­vi­ous case. Still, the screen is also capa­ble of con­sum­ing a lot of ener­gy, espe­cial­ly if you turn the bright­ness to the max­i­mum. The stor­age is a 1000 GB SSD. And the weight of the device is 2.85 kg. Dimen­sions are also not the most mod­est: 399x293x265 mm. If you car­ry the device with you all the time and move long dis­tances, this can become a prob­lem.

DELL G5 5590

DELL has anoth­er device that is suit­able for cre­at­ing videos. As in the G3 line, the empha­sis here is sole­ly on the per­for­mance of iron. There­fore, the devel­op­er installed a fresh NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 graph­ics card here. It is approx­i­mate­ly 20–25% more pow­er­ful than the GTX 1660 Ti if we are talk­ing about portable ver­sions. How­ev­er, there are oth­er mod­i­fi­ca­tions that dif­fer from each oth­er only in the graph­ics adapter. The user can choose from three avail­able options: Intel UHD Graph­ics 630, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060. The RTX 2060 is installed in the 5590 line.


In terms of oth­er para­me­ters, the lap­top will almost com­plete­ly repeat the younger mod­el. Proces­sor — Intel Core i7 9750H. The amount of RAM is 16 GB. Even the pre-installed oper­at­ing sys­tem is the same — Lin­ux. What changed? Per­haps only the con­fig­u­ra­tion of the dri­ves. Now it’s a lone 512 GB SSD. The gad­get comes in two col­or options: black and white. The weight of the device is slight­ly too big: 2.68 kg.

The cost of a lap­top starts from 800$. And although there are cheap­er mod­els on the mar­ket that have an RTX 2060 under the hood, it should be borne in mind that most devices are equipped with an AMD Ryzen 3750H proces­sor. And it is infe­ri­or in per­for­mance to the Intel Core i7 9750H by about 30% on aver­age. Is it worth sav­ing 100$ a third of the per­for­mance of the CPU, the capa­bil­i­ties of which deter­mine the speed and qual­i­ty of ren­der­ing? In our opin­ion, no. There­fore, we chose the DELL G5 5590.

Acer Predator Helios 500

If the graph­ics capa­bil­i­ties of the device are absolute­ly not impor­tant to you, then it is bet­ter to look at mod­els whose main advan­tage is the proces­sor. One such mod­el is the Acer Preda­tor Helios 500.


Graph­ics loads here fall on the shoul­ders of the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56. This is far from the most pow­er­ful chip, which is more of a mid-bud­get solu­tion. But, hav­ing saved on a video card, the devel­op­er did not stint and installed AMD Ryzen 7 2700 here. This is already a 6‑core, 12-thread stone, whose favorite dish is mul­ti-thread­ed tasks. Name­ly, such loads “threat­en” you dur­ing video edit­ing. By the way, the record low fig­ure of 1.5 hours in bat­tery life is achieved pre­cise­ly because of the high per­for­mance of the proces­sor. There­fore, it is bet­ter not to for­get the cord at home.

The stor­age con­fig­u­ra­tion is also very juicy: 512 GB SSD and 1000 GB HDD. This is enough for both fin­ished videos and projects on the sys­tem disk. A lit­tle depress­ing is the small amount of RAM (16 GB) at such a cost (about 1400$) and the weight of the device is 4 kg! If it weren’t for these sig­nif­i­cant short­com­ings, then we would call Helios 500 the best lap­top for video edit­ing. Per­haps in the future we will see an improved mod­el, where the devel­op­er will fix such sig­nif­i­cant flaws and at least slight­ly reduce the price.

MSI Prestige 15 A10SC

Clos­es our rat­ing is the only mod­el that has 4K res­o­lu­tion. Paired with such a high res­o­lu­tion, a screen of at least 17.3 inch­es would look good. How­ev­er, here it is the stan­dard 15.6 inch­es. How­ev­er, users praise the qual­i­ty of the IPS matrix, which repro­duces col­ors very well.


But the screen is not the only advan­tage of the device. 32 GB of RAM — that’s what you should pay atten­tion to. The Pres­tige 15 A10SC is one of the cheap­est devices (if you can say that at all) that has so much RAM and a 6‑core, 12-thread proces­sor. Speak­ing of CPU. This mod­el installs Intel Core i7 10710U. This stone is rel­a­tive­ly rare, but it is almost a com­plete ana­logue of the now pop­u­lar Intel Core i7 9750H. The graph­ics card is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650. You had to sac­ri­fice some­thing for 4K, right?

What I want to note is the long bat­tery life with­out recharg­ing. Accord­ing to the devel­op­er, it is about 16 hours of video play­back. In fact, we did not check, but judg­ing by the reviews, buy­ers are sat­is­fied with the auton­o­my of the device. So, per­haps this is the best lap­top that is suit­able for video edit­ing.

Apple MacBook Pro 16

And of course, we could not ignore Apple. Their prod­ucts are famous for their high reli­a­bil­i­ty and no less high price. The mod­el was released at the end of 2019 and tra­di­tion­al­ly acquired the char­ac­ter­is­tics that make the Mac a unique solu­tion, unlike oth­er lap­tops.


First­ly, there is a 16-inch screen with a res­o­lu­tion of 3072x1920. This is cer­tain­ly not 4K and not the afore­men­tioned 17.3 inch­es, but the per­for­mance is excel­lent. How­ev­er, what else to expect from a lap­top for 2000$? Only full stuff­ing. The screen is com­ple­ment­ed by a chic IPS matrix, which has excel­lent col­or repro­duc­tion. Prob­a­bly, many have heard lauda­to­ry com­ments about the Mac­Book from their famil­iar design­ers. And we join them.

Sec­ond, it’s stuff­ing. 16 GB of RAM oper­ate at a fre­quen­cy of 2666 MHz. The proces­sor is an eight-core i9 9880H mon­ster, which is not afraid of this word in the teeth, absolute­ly any tasks. In terms of per­for­mance in a sin­gle-core load, it is not much ahead of the afore­men­tioned i7 9750H, but in mul­ti-thread­ed tasks the lead can be 30%. The devel­op­er paid decent atten­tion to the graph­ics. The Radeon Pro 5500M can sig­nif­i­cant­ly speed up ren­der­ing. 11 hours of bat­tery life and a weight of only 2 kg. 1024 GB SSD. Excel­lent per­for­mance, noth­ing to com­plain about, except for the price.


Speak­ing of mem­o­ry. If you think you can get by with a cou­ple of 4 GB sticks, then you are wrong. All video edit­ing pro­grams are designed in such a way that the data loaded into the active project is stored in the RAM cache. There­fore, it turns out that the more effects in the cre­at­ed video and the longer it is, the more RAM you will need. In our opin­ion, the opti­mal val­ues ​​​​are 16–32 GB. 8 — lit­tle, 64 — expen­sive. Still, we focus on the price too. Oth­er­wise, what is the point of rank­ing the best lap­tops for video edit­ing, if you can just go and buy the most expen­sive and stuffed mod­el?

As for the screen, it must be at least 15 inch­es and be based on a high-qual­i­ty matrix that will have good col­or repro­duc­tion. The res­o­lu­tion is the high­er the bet­ter. How­ev­er, we will not focus on QHD and 4K, since such mod­els are still unrea­son­ably expen­sive. In most cas­es, clas­sic Full HD will suf­fice. You can read more about screen selec­tion in a sep­a­rate arti­cle.

Pur­chase

Mon­i­tor matrix: which is bet­ter? Find out before you buy

The final link of any com­put­er will be a high-speed SSD dri­ve. After all, it not only speeds up the load­ing of the oper­at­ing sys­tem and its process­es. It also direct­ly affects the speed of data pro­cess­ing while work­ing in a video edit­ing pro­gram. In this case, the sys­tem disk does not have to be large. It makes no sense to store ren­dered projects on an SSD, because they can take hun­dreds of giga­bytes. The most cor­rect choice, in our opin­ion, is a com­bi­na­tion of a 256–512 GB SSD and a clas­sic 1–2 TB HDD.

Now that the basic require­ments are deter­mined, you can start choos­ing a lap­top for pho­to­shop and video edit­ing. Get ready for impres­sive specs and equal­ly impres­sive price tags.

DELL G5 3590null

Opens our top one of the most afford­able devices in its cat­e­go­ry. The price tag starts at about 650$. For such mon­ey, the user will receive at his dis­pos­al a 6‑core 12-thread Intel Core i7 9750H proces­sor. This is one of the most com­mon CPU mod­els in pre­mi­um lap­tops. Also, the device is equipped with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti graph­ics card, which has 6 GB of video mem­o­ry. The amount of RAM is 16 GB. Planks work in two-chan­nel mode. The max­i­mum amount of RAM that the moth­er­board sup­ports is 32 GB.


The stor­age con­fig­u­ra­tion is as fol­lows: 1000 GB HDD and 256 GB SSD. As we wrote above, in our opin­ion, this is the opti­mal set­up. The screen is not infe­ri­or to the rest of the hard­ware in terms of tech­ni­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics: its diag­o­nal is 15.6 inch­es. It is based on an IPS matrix with a refresh rate of 144 Hz. The weak­est point of the gad­get is the bat­tery life, which is only 4 hours. How­ev­er, video edit­ing can very quick­ly dis­charge even devices with high auton­o­my. It is also worth con­sid­er­ing that the devel­op­er chose Lin­ux as the pre­in­stalled oper­at­ing sys­tem. For some, this fact may be a sig­nif­i­cant rea­son for not buy­ing.

Even though the gad­get can’t work with­out a pow­er out­let for a long time, we think it’s a good starter kit that will han­dle heavy work­loads dur­ing video edit­ing. How­ev­er, to cre­ate long-term video con­tent, it is bet­ter to get a more pow­er­ful machine, because even such hard­ware is con­sid­ered rel­a­tive­ly weak in the world of edi­tors.

ASUS ROG GL731GT-AU169

If you want a mod­el with a large diag­o­nal, you will have to addi­tion­al­ly part with anoth­er 100$. The ROG line is posi­tioned as a gam­ing line, but it is also per­fect for edit­ing. Unlike the pre­vi­ous mod­el, ASUS focus­es on the screen. And although the polling fre­quen­cy is low­er here (60 Hertz), the diag­o­nal is 17.3 inch­es. How­ev­er, you will have to sac­ri­fice the capa­bil­i­ties of the graph­ics core.


The NVIDIA GeForce 1650 graph­ics card is installed here. It lags far behind the GTX 1660 Ti. On aver­age, the per­for­mance dif­fer­ence between them is 60–65% in favor of the first mod­el. If you are sure that the pro­gram you are run­ning does not sup­port ren­der­ing with a video card, then this should not play a big role in the pur­chase. All the same, it is more com­fort­able to work on a large screen, which means that you can make a choice in favor of this gad­get. The proces­sor here is the same: Intel Core i7 9750H. And the amount of RAM is iden­ti­cal: 16 GB.

Despite the fact that the graph­ics adapter is weak­er here, charg­ing will also last you 4 hours, as in the pre­vi­ous case. Still, the screen is also capa­ble of con­sum­ing a lot of ener­gy, espe­cial­ly if you turn the bright­ness to the max­i­mum. The stor­age is a 1000 GB SSD. And the weight of the device is 2.85 kg. Dimen­sions are also not the most mod­est: 399x293x265 mm. If you car­ry the device with you all the time and move long dis­tances, this can become a prob­lem.

DELL G5 5590

DELL has anoth­er device that is suit­able for cre­at­ing videos. As in the G3 line, the empha­sis here is sole­ly on the per­for­mance of iron. There­fore, the devel­op­er installed a fresh NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 graph­ics card here. It is approx­i­mate­ly 20–25% more pow­er­ful than the GTX 1660 Ti if we are talk­ing about portable ver­sions. How­ev­er, there are oth­er mod­i­fi­ca­tions that dif­fer from each oth­er only in the graph­ics adapter. The user can choose from three avail­able options: Intel UHD Graph­ics 630, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060. The RTX 2060 is installed in the 5590 line.


In terms of oth­er para­me­ters, the lap­top will almost com­plete­ly repeat the younger mod­el. Proces­sor — Intel Core i7 9750H. The amount of RAM is 16 GB. Even the pre-installed oper­at­ing sys­tem is the same — Lin­ux. What changed? Per­haps only the con­fig­u­ra­tion of the dri­ves. Now it’s a lone 512 GB SSD. The gad­get comes in two col­or options: black and white. The weight of the device is slight­ly too big: 2.68 kg.

The cost of a lap­top starts from 800$. And although there are cheap­er mod­els on the mar­ket that have an RTX 2060 under the hood, it should be borne in mind that most devices are equipped with an AMD Ryzen 3750H proces­sor. And it is infe­ri­or in per­for­mance to the Intel Core i7 9750H by about 30% on aver­age. Is it worth sav­ing 100$ a third of the per­for­mance of the CPU, the capa­bil­i­ties of which deter­mine the speed and qual­i­ty of ren­der­ing? In our opin­ion, no. There­fore, we chose the DELL G5 5590.

Acer Predator Helios 500

If the graph­ics capa­bil­i­ties of the device are absolute­ly not impor­tant to you, then it is bet­ter to look at mod­els whose main advan­tage is the proces­sor. One such mod­el is the Acer Preda­tor Helios 500.


Graph­ics loads here fall on the shoul­ders of the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56. This is far from the most pow­er­ful chip, which is more of a mid-bud­get solu­tion. But, hav­ing saved on a video card, the devel­op­er did not stint and installed AMD Ryzen 7 2700 here. This is already a 6‑core, 12-thread stone, whose favorite dish is mul­ti-thread­ed tasks. Name­ly, such loads “threat­en” you dur­ing video edit­ing. By the way, the record low fig­ure of 1.5 hours in bat­tery life is achieved pre­cise­ly because of the high per­for­mance of the proces­sor. There­fore, it is bet­ter not to for­get the cord at home.

The stor­age con­fig­u­ra­tion is also very juicy: 512 GB SSD and 1000 GB HDD. This is enough for both fin­ished videos and projects on the sys­tem disk. A lit­tle depress­ing is the small amount of RAM (16 GB) at such a cost (about 1400$) and the weight of the device is 4 kg! If it weren’t for these sig­nif­i­cant short­com­ings, then we would call Helios 500 the best lap­top for video edit­ing. Per­haps in the future we will see an improved mod­el, where the devel­op­er will fix such sig­nif­i­cant flaws and at least slight­ly reduce the price.

MSI Prestige 15 A10SC

Clos­es our rat­ing is the only mod­el that has 4K res­o­lu­tion. Paired with such a high res­o­lu­tion, a screen of at least 17.3 inch­es would look good. How­ev­er, here it is the stan­dard 15.6 inch­es. How­ev­er, users praise the qual­i­ty of the IPS matrix, which repro­duces col­ors very well.


But the screen is not the only advan­tage of the device. 32 GB of RAM — that’s what you should pay atten­tion to. The Pres­tige 15 A10SC is one of the cheap­est devices (if you can say that at all) that has so much RAM and a 6‑core, 12-thread proces­sor. Speak­ing of CPU. This mod­el installs Intel Core i7 10710U. This stone is rel­a­tive­ly rare, but it is almost a com­plete ana­logue of the now pop­u­lar Intel Core i7 9750H. The graph­ics card is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650. You had to sac­ri­fice some­thing for 4K, right?

What I want to note is the long bat­tery life with­out recharg­ing. Accord­ing to the devel­op­er, it is about 16 hours of video play­back. In fact, we did not check, but judg­ing by the reviews, buy­ers are sat­is­fied with the auton­o­my of the device. So, per­haps this is the best lap­top that is suit­able for video edit­ing.

Apple MacBook Pro 16

And of course, we could not ignore Apple. Their prod­ucts are famous for their high reli­a­bil­i­ty and no less high price. The mod­el was released at the end of 2019 and tra­di­tion­al­ly acquired the char­ac­ter­is­tics that make the Mac a unique solu­tion, unlike oth­er lap­tops.


First­ly, there is a 16-inch screen with a res­o­lu­tion of 3072x1920. This is cer­tain­ly not 4K and not the afore­men­tioned 17.3 inch­es, but the per­for­mance is excel­lent. How­ev­er, what else to expect from a lap­top for 2000$? Only full stuff­ing. The screen is com­ple­ment­ed by a chic IPS matrix, which has excel­lent col­or repro­duc­tion. Prob­a­bly, many have heard lauda­to­ry com­ments about the Mac­Book from their famil­iar design­ers. And we join them.

Sec­ond, it’s stuff­ing. 16 GB of RAM oper­ate at a fre­quen­cy of 2666 MHz. The proces­sor is an eight-core i9 9880H mon­ster, which is not afraid of this word in the teeth, absolute­ly any task. In terms of per­for­mance in a sin­gle-core load, it is not much ahead of the afore­men­tioned i7 9750H, but in mul­ti-thread­ed tasks the lead can be 30%. The devel­op­er paid decent atten­tion to the graph­ics. The Radeon Pro 5500M can sig­nif­i­cant­ly speed up ren­der­ing. 11 hours of bat­tery life and a weight of only 2 kg. 1024 GB SSD. Excel­lent per­for­mance, noth­ing to com­plain about, except for the price.

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