Laptop

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Editing heavy 4k footage could be a challenge if you don't have an appropriate system configuration. Fortunately, nowadays we have powerful enough laptops to these stuff...

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In this story, we will have a quick look at the best laptop configuration for video editing.

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For it to be the best video editing laptop, you'll want something with a discrete graphics card. Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1060 GPU is one of the cheapest/best GPU for video editing, that starts at around $1,099.

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Thanks for being with us! These were some basic laptop requirements for video editing.

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