can never watch mtb vids etc on my lappy on hd. need a new un 🙁

I’m investigating the same thing. Bought daughter an i5 with 6gb which I intend to borrow for video editing work. Hope that’s enough RAM. Planning a desktop with i7 and 8gb if not.

I’m well impressed with my Samsung Series 7 Chronos, quad core I7 8Gb of RAM with a 1Tb hard disk speeded up with a 8Gb flash drive and Nvidia GT640 Optimus graphics. It’s under an inch thick and it embarrasses my old AMD 1075T desktop when it comes to processor grunt.

http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/pc-peripherals/notebook-computers/high-performance/NP700Z5C-S03UK

My wife has just got this:
http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Samsung_700_-_Core_i7-3630QM_16GB_1.5TB_Blu_ray_combo__Nvidia_GTX_675M_2GB__NP700G7C-S02UK/version.asp

It’s excellent, has a big screen & fully functional tho’, so not lightweight & not cheap – should last years before being outdated though.

Obviously not to everyone’s taste, but an Apple MacBookPro + iMovie is a reasonable combo.

From £870 with the educational discount http://store.apple.com/uk_edu_5000751/browse/home/shop_mac/family/macbook_pro

geoffj – thanks for that! It’s helped me work out what price I can get what I want through uni. For anyone buying through the applestore, don’t forget to use Topcashback to claim 3.03%.

hp laptops look good

Has to be the 15″ Macbook Retina Pro.

For anything serious Desktop with a decent monitor or two.

After that a high spec PC will be fine. Look for plenty of Ram (and room for more when it get cheaper) fast processor and probably USB 3 as you will want to be storing the editing vids elsewhere after a while.

17″ is much better for viewing & working on IMHO anything better get a desktop. In the end a 10″ tablet for viewing and a desktop for editing might be more use.