What to consider when buying a new laptop for video editing

[FlyingDutchman90]

Hello everyone, I hope I'm in the right section of the forum for this. I have been editing videos since about 4 years now and I've always used my basic laptop for this. When I bought this now 10 year old laptop (refurbished) I was only using it for Word or Excell and to go online, so there was no need for a powerful computer. However, while using the poor thing for editing 4K videos it was clearly struggling, making a fair bit of noise.

As I need to buy a new laptop with Windows 11 I would like to buy one that is appropriate for video editing. But as I don't know much about computers, I don't know what specs I need to pay attention too. Is it the memory? The video card? Hopefully you can give me some advice.

Thank you very much in advance!

 

[Cafguy]

I have an Acer Nitro 5 laptop,.. couldnt recommend it enough!

 

[SkyeHigh]

Do you have a budget in mind?

 

[Dale D]

Hello everyone, I hope I'm in the right section of the forum for this. I have been editing videos since about 4 years now and I've always used my basic laptop for this. When I bought this now 10 year old laptop (refurbished) I was only using it for Word or Excell and to go online, so there was no need for a powerful computer. However, while using the poor thing for editing 4K videos it was clearly struggling, making a fair bit of noise.

As I need to buy a new laptop with Windows 11 I would like to buy one that is appropriate for video editing. But as I don't know much about computers, I don't know what specs I need to pay attention too. Is it the memory? The video card? Hopefully you can give me some advice.

Thank you very much in advance!

I think you should buy the highest RAM you can afford. I use an i MAC with 16 GB and I still run out of memory. I found this on Chat GPT