My partner is looking to get a laptop which she can use for video editing as well as some gaming (sims, simcity, LoL) I don't know much about video editing but from what I know, she needs an i7 (3rd gen), decent amount of RAM (thinking 16gb) as well as considerable storage (2tb HDD). With regards to the gaming, a half descent discrete GFX card should do the job, don't know much about laptop equivalent GFX cards.
She will most likely get a 24-27" monitor at some point but just the laptop for the start.
So, I am looking for something along the lines of these specs which would suite the task. Price limit is roughly $1000 but less is obviously better.
Cheers,
Brouw3r
It may help, but certainly isn't required. i5 will help a lot, i7 is really not much better. Also 2nd/3rd generation are not all that much different, but most stuff is 3rd gen anyway.
Yes this is good.
Yes, but for a laptop doing this job the storage is usually external.
They all suck a bit. More obvious issues will come if you get a high resolution 27" monitor, but for the games listed it shouldn't be too much of an issue. I would try to get a 7670m as a minimum.