Hi there,
I'm looking to finally upgrade to a new laptop, and I have the Sony Vaio Flip 15 in mind. I am a casual/semi-pro video editor, by which I mean I work on HD clips shot from a Handycam or DSLR, for short films, music videos, promos etc, as well as the odd tutorial/screencast video; and I use Sony Vegas (so no After Effects to worry about). Not doing some major Hollywood-style hardcore editing here, but still more than your average Windows Movie Maker user.
I'd appreciate some help on whether I should go for a graphic card on my system or not. I have the following options available:
Intel® HD Graphics 440014
NVIDIA GeForce GT 735M w/ Optimus (1GB) hybrid graphics14
NVIDIA GeForce GT 735M w/ Optimus (2GB) hybrid graphics14
The 1GB card is an additional $30, and the 2GB flavor is just $20 more ($50 in total).
I'm not sure what role a graphic card will play in video editing. I don't do gaming, and from what I've read, a graphic card isn't going to improve render times either; but I've also seen people say that Vegas does utilize the GPU (again, I'm not sure what this means).
My first and foremost priority is to maximize my battery life on the machine, which is fairly average as it is...I realize that integrated graphics would be the way to go for this, but the nVidia options here are hybrid, so it'd be cool if for 90% of the time during my web browsing, word processing tasks I wouldn't have to worry about the graphics card eating away my battery time, and for the other 10% of the time when I'm working on Vegas, it pulls it's weight.
Having said that, if a $30 upgrade to a dedicated card does show significant improvement in my video editing and rendering tasks (note: I say editing and rendering, I don't care about playback as much), then why not?
So I suppose it boils down to this: will a hybrid graphics card offer me about the same battery life as an integrated graphics card (considering I won't be gaming or watching videos for 90% of the time), or is there a significant difference? And what improvement (if any) would the dedicated graphics card bring in my video editing/rendering tasks?
Let me know your thoughts please, would be much appreciated
I'm looking to finally upgrade to a new laptop, and I have the Sony Vaio Flip 15 in mind. I am a casual/semi-pro video editor, by which I mean I work on HD clips shot from a Handycam or DSLR, for short films, music videos, promos etc, as well as the odd tutorial/screencast video; and I use Sony Vegas (so no After Effects to worry about). Not doing some major Hollywood-style hardcore editing here, but still more than your average Windows Movie Maker user.
I'd appreciate some help on whether I should go for a graphic card on my system or not. I have the following options available:
Intel® HD Graphics 440014
NVIDIA GeForce GT 735M w/ Optimus (1GB) hybrid graphics14
NVIDIA GeForce GT 735M w/ Optimus (2GB) hybrid graphics14
The 1GB card is an additional $30, and the 2GB flavor is just $20 more ($50 in total).
I'm not sure what role a graphic card will play in video editing. I don't do gaming, and from what I've read, a graphic card isn't going to improve render times either; but I've also seen people say that Vegas does utilize the GPU (again, I'm not sure what this means).
My first and foremost priority is to maximize my battery life on the machine, which is fairly average as it is...I realize that integrated graphics would be the way to go for this, but the nVidia options here are hybrid, so it'd be cool if for 90% of the time during my web browsing, word processing tasks I wouldn't have to worry about the graphics card eating away my battery time, and for the other 10% of the time when I'm working on Vegas, it pulls it's weight.
Having said that, if a $30 upgrade to a dedicated card does show significant improvement in my video editing and rendering tasks (note: I say editing and rendering, I don't care about playback as much), then why not?
So I suppose it boils down to this: will a hybrid graphics card offer me about the same battery life as an integrated graphics card (considering I won't be gaming or watching videos for 90% of the time), or is there a significant difference? And what improvement (if any) would the dedicated graphics card bring in my video editing/rendering tasks?
Let me know your thoughts please, would be much appreciated