Hello everybody!

1. Any reliable brand which last long and with good service and maintanance
2. Max rm3000 with everything covered.(ssd, ram upgrades and stuff) Just a student and don't wanna burn my dad's wallet. But if there is a valuable upgrade i would top up.
3. Mainly photo and video editing.
4. Minimum 15".

Thanks

This post has been edited by eddydo: Aug 25 2013, 09:43 PM

Thanks for your advice. So is it preferable to go for 17"? If i go for 17" and increase my budget by 1k, what should i go for?

So i can't get a good 17" laptop for rm4k? oh no this is very bad.

Just wanna satisfy my curiosity, what is the current best laptop for video/ photo editing?

What about windows?
My desktop is windows so i thought it might be a problem if i transfer files from windows to mac or vise versa.
And license need buy for two different platform haa..

Just wondering what do you mean by swappable odd? Saw the hdd only runs at 5400rpm which is pretty slow..

Visited illegear s website and wow, I can get mac already hoho.

Illegear have so many options which makes me want the best..

I think I'll go with mac pro with retina display if I can squeeze my budget up to 7k, or else I'll just get the lenovo one and change a ssd. Ssd can put ultra bay?

What is haswell?


Edit: Oh it's okay I did my own research already.

This post has been edited by eddydo: Aug 28 2013, 05:14 PM

Okay so previously some sifu recommended:

If my budget is MAX rm3000,
Y510p, i7-4700MQ + Nvidia GT750M(GDDR5) + (1920x1080)@RM3099[2.7kg], 8GB, 1TB, W8, red backlit, swappable ODD, 120w psu, 2 yrs

and

If my budget can push up to rm8000,
Macbook Pro Retina Display 15-inch.

So my question is that, is Illegear's laptop can be compared with Macbook?

Thanks for the fast reply heh. I thought about the set up with above average notebook and external monitor, but i got a desktop already. So anyways, I guess i will stick with Lenovo 510p(right?) and only get it after the haswell refresh(right?)

OR

Illegear RE-15 with the upgrades you recommended.

Thanks for the help mate

I don't see lenovo Y510p in there webpage. I find Illegear poisoning me to get the best out of them haha...

If I'm rich to splash, I won't be asking here according to you.
But that means the poor can't ask for the best?
And if that's so, why am I here?

Asking for the best gadget is to know where technology actually stand these days.
Not everyday people will tell you what is good and what is bad, and not everything is on google.
Asking is a form of learning, we are here to listen to people's opinion, experience and ask questions which we don't understand.
Some people here aren't contributing any useful informations, instead I assume they are doing a good job here flaming the rich.

Everyone do wants to get the best out of something, but in this case, budget is the restriction.
Let me make this clear, I'm not rich, my parents may be but who cares.
But if it is a worthwhile investment, why not go for the best?

Why do our parents want us to get into a good school?
Want us to get good grades to get into a good college.
Why do our parents want us to get into a good college?
To graduate as someone they could be proud of.
But will you use everything taught in school after you graduated?
Knowledge do expire or should I say, outdate.
But what if you don't like studying from the start? Will you even get good grades?

And again, why get a Ferarri?
What's the purpose of all these? Nothing. I just like it.

"Buying the best gadget out there and hardly produce anything significant that has the same level of processing requirements. Better save some money as gadgets phase out so fast"

So if gadgets phase out quickly, why do people still get the latest phones?
Take S4 as example,
Are you gonna use S Beam?
Most probably not, but why is the technology there in your phone?
Or why did you even buy that phone if you aren't fully utilizing the phone's ability? More else it's the phone's signature ability.

Sometimes it ain't about fully utilizing it.

I love editing video's. But I hate waiting.
Slow rendering time, wait time longer than usage time.
People say time is money.
You can't buy time with money.
But if you can get a laptop that only have short rendering time, why not?
That's like purchasing time already.

And for a newbie I do know what am I doing.

Just wondering what generation are you from, the Y generation? Or X or Z?
Well it doesn't matter anyways.

The reason I was looking into macbook pro was:
Retina display
Light weight compare to those big ass gaming laptops
Stability
I'm gonna emphasize on this a little.
I got a teacher which is in advertising industry.
He started off his business right after he graduated and invested in WINDOWS.
After that he changed all his computers into MAC.
WHY?
Windows keeps crashing.
I'm not sure about it now but i guess MAC a safer road to go in this particular industry and it's worth the investment.

You just wasted 3 minutes and 53 seconds on this.
Oh and I'm not pointing fingers, just replying your post with my own opinion.

This post has been edited by eddydo: Aug 29 2013, 06:11 PM

You and a few other sifu gave me good advices and different situations, totally appreciate it. I know it is too early for mbp now so yeah i'm settling down on y510p( which i don't see on lenovo webpage?) or illegear ( which keeps on poisoning me with those specs).

Heh thanks

Hey I think I will be able to do most of my heavy video editing on my desktop. Now the main reason for the laptop is for photo editing. Can you suggest another or I stick with lenovo?

If it can be light then it's better