Hola,

could you help me in the upgrade choice for a beast laptop for Vegas?
I'm planning to work even with After Effects

Yhank you so much

p.s: i was wondering in a DELL....

The best laptop would be the most expensive one you can afford.

Don thank you for your suggestion but...under 2000$ what would you suggest?

The new Apple m1 looks interesting.

The new Apple m1 looks interesting.
He wants to run Vegas that’s a windows based software

Thanks Pete!

A typical price range for video editing laptop is around $1,600-2,500

The following are a few specs you should look for:
cpu i7
16gb ram
1tb nvme drive
discrete video card (this is the biggest price differentiator)
15-17" screen.

The problem with laptops they have difficulty dissipating heat, leading to loud fans or throttling. Sometimes going with a higher end cpu doesn't result in better performance because of the additional heat and then ensuing throttling.

I've also been investigating the possibility of moving over to a "beast" laptop. A top of the range laptop is very expensive - obviously - however its cheaper than a high-end desktop + a mid-range laptop (n.b. a laptop that might disappoint if its "only" 1080p rather than 4k and with a slowish GPU).

I am used to using two 1080p screens on my desktop. I would want to retire the desktop and move over to a beast laptop that can do 4k on its built-in screen plus run a 2nd 4k screen of e.g. 27" when I want to work at my desk. But I also want to do everything just on a laptop when I'm elsewhere. My current Dell XPS is 15.6" and I find that rather to small to work on especially with the likes of Vegas Pro and Capture One Pro. Therefore I would want a 17" laptop screen.

16gb saves some money but 32gb is probably a safer long-term bet - though you can use Vegas proxy up to a point anyway.

Likewise a GPU something like the Nvidia RTX 2060 6GB makes sense.

Likewise an i9 for long-term.

I prefer Dell over suppliers as my kit has been reliable long-term and their availability to solve any problems is decent.

The specific Dell laptop I've been looking at is their new XPS 17:
https://www.dell.com/en-uk/work/shop/laptop-computers-for-businesses/new-xps-17/spd/xps-17-9700-laptop/bnx79707?view=configurations

Its around £3k at present so substantially over the OP's desired limit but .....

Its also worth keeping an eye on the likes of Dell Alienware in their outlet shop.

Pete

EDIT:
There are some very knowledgeable members on the dedicated Magix Vegas forum, so do check that out as well:
https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/vegas-pro-forum/

I've had good luck with Sager. Their web-site is www.sagernotebook.com. I've bought four computers from them, starting in 2008 and my most recent one in 2018. I have a i9 series CPU with 64GB RAM, four 2TB SSDs in two RAID arrays. So, a 4TB RAID C drive and 4TB RAID D drive. It works pretty good for my 4K editing.
It was about $6,000.

A couple of reasons I keep going back to Sager:
They offer lots of customization on their web-site. Easy to configure with RAID, for example.
They don't put any bloatware on their machines.
I've had the extended warranty and had to get it repaired and that was a good experience.

You start out by selecting screen size. Currently showing eleven models in 17" size.
You can get them for under $2,000, but if you want lots of on-board, fast RAM and lots of fast storage memory, it will run the price up.

Mark

BTW: I mostly edit with Vegas (13 and 15 pro) but also use photoshop. I have Premiere but rarely need to use it nowadays.