Chime in: Your favorite laptops for video editing

By Rich Edmonds
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Getting things done while on the move doesn't need to be a bad experience. Powerful notebooks will allow you to do a little video editing when not at the desk, but what should you look for?

Razer Blade Pro
Razer Blade Pro

It's easy to get a lot done in front of a desktop PC, especially when it comes to video editing. Taking full advantage of the available performance, rendering projects and making edits doesn't take very long if you have a moderately capable PC. For laptops, it's usually a different story. Portable computers can come with lesser powerful CPUs, GPUs, slower RAM, and storage. All this makes for a terrible video editing workstation, but there are viable options out there.

Community member leviathan18 took to our forum to ask for some recommended notebooks.

Hello guys, I need a laptop that is light and thin ( I dont need razor thin) that has the power to edit 4K video from a DJI Phantom and the photos from my canon 5ds (50mp) I use: adobe premiere pro adobe photoshop, sometimes lightroom capture one alien skins exposure x3

leviathan18

We recently rounded up a shortlist of devices that can be used for video editing. The main factors you need to consider is the CPU, GPU, RAM, storage, and — of course — price. Speed is everything and you need all components to work well with one another, allowing video editing suites like Adobe Premiere Pro to handle huge projects.

From the forum: Portable laptop for photo and video editing

Rich Edmonds
Rich Edmonds
Senior Editor, PC Build

Rich Edmonds is Senior Editor of PC hardware at Windows Central, covering everything related to PC components and NAS. He's been involved in technology for more than a decade and knows a thing or two about the magic inside a PC chassis. You can follow him over on Twitter at @RichEdmonds.