need a new computer to run adobe production premium cs3 and ssp

[marcusvb]

I am an associate pastor at a church plant. we will be hving our first service in a few weeks and we need to start purchasing some equipment. We weill be running adobe production premium cs3 and ssp 7. We were thinking maybe a laptop could run both. I want to make sure these options would run both programs at optimum performance. We will be loading xp pro 64-bit on whatever computer we buy. these are a few options we are looking at any feedback would be great.


http://www.pugetsystems.com/certified_sys.php?sys_id=23

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834220215


http://cgi.ebay.com/2-6-Ghz-Core-2-D...QQcmdZViewItem

[marcusvb]

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...079&CatId=2289
another option

[russellhickman]

Marcus,
The laptop probably should have the following specs:

• Dedicated video controller (i.e. NVidia 8600, 8700, 9500 etc). (I would stay away from ATI because SongShow seems geered more towards NVIDIA.)
• At least 2GB of memory (preferably 4 GB)
• Fast processor (2.4GHz or Better). Intel 9xxx series is the latest processors.
• 100GB+ HD running at 5400RPM, but preferably 7200RPM.

I am assuming that your budget is around $2,000 based on the ones you provided. Go Fish Media (provides technical support for Songshow) has a (gofishmedia.net/products/tabid/57/CategoryID/2/List/1/ProductID/10/Default.aspx?SortField=ProductName%2cProductName)
You also have the Dell Precisions which you can customize to your likings:
dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/precn_m?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd

Sony Vaio:
newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834117682 (HD's a little weak 4200RPM, so this will slow down video editing)

HPs are probably good, but I haven't had experience with them.

Asus is generally good product (The GoFish Media PC looks like an Asus). You might want to look at:
newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220284
newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220308

Rusty

[Sysmom]

I'd say if you are using it for video production AND for media on Sundays, you better have a lot more than 100G hard drive.

[[Admin] osborn4]

SSP is not supported on 64-bit XP. I'd stay away from that. Vista support is getting much better and should be in place when the next release (currently in beta) comes out.

An nVidia GeForce card would be the way to go. I'd look for something with at least 256 meg of video memory. Stay away from shared memory if at all possible.

3 or 4 gig of memory. XP 32 bit won't use much more than 3 gig of system memory. I'd put more money in the graphics card (maybe 512 MB video memory) and stick with 3 gig of system memory.

100 gig hard drive is probably a bit small, unless you are going to be religious about archiving projects off. Also, I'd make sure it's at least a 7200 RPM disk.

I don't know about those specific models. I try to run from a desktop whenever possible. You get MUCH m ore bang for the buck.

But I believe that Chad has had real good luck running SSP on the ASUSes.

[russellhickman]

Sysmom and Joel are right. If you buy a 100GB hard drive, you probably will need to look at alternate solution(s) for storing the extra media files. I use 100GB on my current laptop but only have it half full because I pull a subset of files down from my desktop. The largest 7200RPM drive is now 200GB which gives you a little breathing room, but not as much as a desktop.

Since this is a laptop, another device to look into is getting a large USB drive to hold/backup your media files.