Which PC Laptop To Buy (If Any)

[Xepa]

Sorry guys, I saw the Linux and Mac forums but didn't see a PC one.

I use Camtasia Studio 7 for work (do a lot of tutorials / walkthrough videos using PowerPoint/Prezi). I'm going to buy the newest Camtasia 8 and get a new laptop soon and narrowed it down to these 2 models. I was wondering whether:

1)These laptops can handle the capability to screen share smoothly (so when I'm doing 80+ PowerPoint animations in a single slide or zooming all over in Prezi it won't look choppy).

2) Whether it will allow for reasonable encoding/uploading time to Youtube.

Laptop 1
ASUS Haswell i7 1.8GHz Dual 16" Touch Laptop
(Intel Core i7-4500U 1.8GHz Haswell dual-core processor, 15.6" 1366x768 touchscreen LCD, 6GB RAM, 750GB hard drive, 802.11n wireless, webcam, media card reader, USB 3.0, 4-cell battery, and Windows 8.1 64-bit.)

Laptop 2
Lenovo Yoga 2 Pentium Quad 12" Touch Laptop
*Intel Bay Trail Pentium N3520 2.42GHz quad-core processor, 11.6" 1366x768 touchscreen LCD, 4GB RAM, 500GB hard drive, 802.11n wireless, Bluetooth 4.0, 4-cell battery, and Windows 8.1 64-bit.)

Yes, yes, the Yoga doesn't use a Haswell chip. So I guess the question is...can Laptop 2 handle the 2 things I want? If not, then can Laptop 1?

For comparison, I got a toshiba satellite l855 in March 2013 and it's terrible for doing the screen capture / editing stuff. Everything is always choppy when I record it.

THANK YOU FOR THE HELP!!!! <3 <3 <3

[turk690]

Everything is always choppy when I record it.

That is most likely because, for one, you are not using a separate HDD to capture to. The fatal thing about laughtops where NLE is concerned is that they only have one drive, and it is chancy and unpredictable on one end to impossible and impractical on the other to try to capture any video stream onto that one single drive, which is the system drive. I have given my 2cents on the topic on numerous previous posts.

[hiptune]

I would say that it is not fatal at all, and that a laptop like one of these could be useful and productive in the long term if it has a external hard drive connection like USB 3.0

So a good external drive and you are good to go.

[usually_quiet]

eSATA is better for editing video than USB 3.0. The reason is explained here: https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/356640-Laptop-crashes-while-rendering?p=2247451&vie...=1#post2247451

[budwzr]

I just bought an Asus N550jk-DB74T and it's a screamer.

It's all solid state. Instant On/Off like a tablet. 16 gigs ram. Completely silent. Vegas Pro 12 loads in 5 secs.

[turk690]

I just bought an Asus N550jk-DB74T and it's a screamer.

Sweet. But it's intended mainly for gaming & entertainment. With that 256GB SSD, an external drive is even more important than ever. I suppose you can connect something to one of the USB3 ports, but that is never as ideal as eSATA. And with bloaty, metro-ey, full-of-bells-&-whistles Windoze 8 that wants to monitor and comment and control every single thing you do, will you finish rendering that wretched project in time?? (If the laughtop does not hang to begin with and present you with a *** screen of death (you can choose the color now?).)

[budwzr]

Yeah, if you go SSD that's the workflow. Portable drives. I prefer that to having a local disk spinning around all the time.

I put all my archive stuff on OneDrive, so it's nice and safe. I don't think you can beat Microsoft cloud storage. And it's super cheap.

I don't use the Metro part of Windows, just the desktop applications. The Metro Apps seem designed for elementary school level. Nothing useful there for me.

I haven't had any serious issues going from Win7 to 8.1, luckily. The new "laughtop" forces me to to use 8.1, otherwise Win7 was fine.