Mavic 2 Pro Laptop Requirements

[ChuckNorrisUSAF]

iPad Pro 2nd generation works very well, for both replaying and editing 4k 10bit 265 DLog. And it's only $500 now? I'm not sure how much it is now, but used to be $649.

3rd Gen (iPad Pro) just dropped in price by 400 on Amazon - crack deal today - not sure how long its going on

 

[Brewbud]

If you are looking to edit without using proxies the number of cores is important. Most, but not all, 8th gen I7s will have 6 cores vs 4 cores of the 8th gen I5 or older I7s. If you are looking at laptops you may want to buy one from a custom builder that can use a better thermal paste than what comes from the OEM. Laptops are prone to overheating and heat will really throttle your speeds. I had my MSI built by Xotic PC. 6 core I7, GTX 1070, 32 GB of ram and a very fast SSD and it will handle the 10bit 265 files fine.

If you don't want to spend the money use Davinci Resolve and edit with proxy files as mentioned previously. One note: You may need to use an older version of Resolve. I can't remember if it does a hardware check upon installation but I think it might. Don't let worrying about a new PC keep you away from a M2P. You will love it.

 

[Gizmo6257]

So true. I did what Jay did. Great software and free. Adobe is just like Apple, OVER Priced and Over Rated.

Divinci is free and has just as much if not more in Divinci 16. Watch you tube videos with Jay Lippman. He is great and switched from Premiere Pro. I have used both, but Divinci is easier, faster and doesn't crash all the time. Plus it saves you 25 bucks a month.

 

[CanadaDrone]

i5 is not low end at all, although Intel's core i series naming is all over the place most i5's offer similar performance and feature sets to i7's for much lower cost. In many cases with the laptop versions, the i5's and i7's have the same core counts and featuresets but the i5's have a slightly lower boost speed and cache which makes for a small performance improvement for a large difference in cost which may be better invested in other parts of the system for a better performance boost.

The low end processors are the Atom, Celerons and Pentiums with the current progression for consumer processors from slowest to fastest being Atom, Celeron, Pentium, Core i3, Core i5, core i7 and core i9.

Just to add to this, although the i5 is low to mid-tier (as mentioned, it goes i3, i5, i7, i9 within the "i" series), the i5's often perform the best in notebook specific applications because they can go longer at maximum frequency before they throttle. So that i7 or i9 might look better on paper, but in benchmarks you will see they often fall down to (equivalent) i5 levels or even below as soon as they see a sustained workload. Undervolting them slightly can also often completely eliminate throttling, which is super common in most laptops. If evaluating whether or not you want to pay for an i7, you need to look at that specific laptop's thermals, and a lot of the time it isn't worth it. Sometimes you can only get certain system configurations with an i7 though, so that has to be taken into consideration - much like option packages on vehicles or cable TV packages.

The generation is also very important because the "i" series has been around more than a decade, so just because something has an "i5" or an "i7" doesn't mean it's good or current, which is the exact reason Apple never shows you processor model numbers, because they keep old hardware around so long in their computer products and don't lower the price accordingly.

 

[Brewbud]

Just to add to this, although the i5 is low to mid-tier (as mentioned, it goes i3, i5, i7, i9 within the "i" series), the i5's often perform the best in notebook specific applications because they can go longer at maximum frequency before they throttle. So that i7 or i9 might look better on paper, but in benchmarks you will see they often fall down to (equivalent) i5 levels or even below as soon as they see a sustained workload. Undervolting them slightly can also often completely eliminate throttling, which is super common in most laptops. If evaluating whether or not you want to pay for an i7, you need to look at that specific laptop's thermals, and a lot of the time it isn't worth it. Sometimes you can only get certain system configurations with an i7 though, so that has to be taken into consideration - much like option packages on vehicles or cable TV packages.

The generation is also very important because the "i" series has been around more than a decade, so just because something has an "i5" or an "i7" doesn't mean it's good or current, which is the exact reason Apple never shows you processor model numbers, because they keep old hardware around so long in their computer products and don't lower the price accordingly.

Very true, This is why it is important to buy a machine designed with good thermal conductive "pipes" and have the processor repasted with better thermal paste. I even had the GPU processor repasted on mine. Always look at the specific processor number (ex. I7-8750H) if you want to know the specific performance attributes.

 

[Gizmo6257]

Just buy a AMD Ryzen 9 3800 or Ryzen 7 3800 and have a lot more money in your pocket and a fast or even faster computer than i9 Intel. The new Ryzen chips have more cores and are out performing Intel for half the cost. Maybe now that AMD and Ryzen is better than Intel, maybe Intel will quit ripping people off on the prices. Great CPUs but way to much money. AMD has come a long way. Look online at the benchmarks. Very impressive.

Just to add to this, although the i5 is low to mid-tier (as mentioned, it goes i3, i5, i7, i9 within the "i" series), the i5's often perform the best in notebook specific applications because they can go longer at maximum frequency before they throttle. So that i7 or i9 might look better on paper, but in benchmarks you will see they often fall down to (equivalent) i5 levels or even below as soon as they see a sustained workload. Undervolting them slightly can also often completely eliminate throttling, which is super common in most laptops. If evaluating whether or not you want to pay for an i7, you need to look at that specific laptop's thermals, and a lot of the time it isn't worth it. Sometimes you can only get certain system configurations with an i7 though, so that has to be taken into consideration - much like option packages on vehicles or cable TV packages.

The generation is also very important because the "i" series has been around more than a decade, so just because something has an "i5" or an "i7" doesn't mean it's good or current, which is the exact reason Apple never shows you processor model numbers, because they keep old hardware around so long in their computer products and don't lower the price accordingly.

 

[CanadaDrone]

Just buy a AMD Ryzen 9 3800 or Ryzen 7 3800 and have a lot more money in your pocket and a fast or even faster computer than i9 Intel. The new Ryzen chips have more cores and are out performing Intel for half the cost. Maybe now that AMD and Ryzen is better than Intel, maybe Intel will quit ripping people off on the prices. Great CPUs but way to much money. AMD has come a long way. Look online at the benchmarks. Very impressive.

Agreed, but those are desktop CPUs - not available in mobile realm unfortunately The Ryzen 9 models are 3900 and 3950 for 12 and 16 cores respectively, there isn't actually a Ryzen 9 3800 but there is a Ryzen 7 3800 (4c/8t). My next "main" PC will likely be a Ryzen machine (currently Intel Xtreme).

The other issue is finding Ryzen CPUs in laptops period - it's getting better with the 3000U series, but very few manufacturers are using them and they are only ever in a couple of models.

 

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