Best laptops for video editing in 2023?

[Emmaphoto]

What are the best laptops for video editing in 2023 and why? These days I am planning to buy a new laptop, I will mainly use it for video editing, so I am interested in your recommendation.

 

[SchizTech]

That's a rather broad question. It would help if you could narrow the field with more details.

• What is your price range (in what currency if not USD)
• Do you have a preferred screen size?

In general for editing you'll just want a more powerful machine. If material is to be stored locally you'll need a higher storage volume. Things like this push the purchase into higher (more expensive) tiers of laptop.

 

[Emmaphoto]

My budget is between 1200-1500$.
Screen size is not that important to me.

 

[SchizTech]

OK. Are there any other particular requirements or preferences? Referring to the storage comment earlier, will you rely on external drives or should internal capacity be a more important consideration? Do you have an idea of what software titles will be used?

 

[SchizTech]

Many high powered laptops are sold as gaming laptops. They'll have a discrete graphics processor to go with higher end CPU and more RAM. These graphics cards are tuned for gaming; there are graphics cards tuned for editing and other professional tasks but those are even more expensive; I couldn't find a laptop with such a pro card (Nvidia Quatro series for example) under $2k. This is where details about the software and more exact usage details would help. If a consumer/gaming card will do, there are machines like

https://www.newegg.com/black-asus-rog-g513qy-sg15-r96800-gaming/p/1TS-001A-07XM6?Item=9SIAJZDJPY9999