Is there a reason for the Dell XPS 15 not being added to this list of compatible hardware?
I'm looking for a notebook for my wife who needs it mainly to work with Avid Media Composer or Adobe Premiere/After Effects at home. Dell Precision 5560 (i7 11850H, 1 TB SSD, 32 GB RAM, A2000) looks fine, but the new Dell XPS 15 (almost the same system but with a RTX3050 instead of an A2000) already offers 12th gen Core i7 and costs a bit less.
I really wouldn't worry tooooo much about this.
One reason the Dell XPS 15 wouldn't be on that list could be because very simply, Avid hadn't put any resources in to test that system.
Nowadays MC can run on (almost) any system.
Editing Movie Magic.
My Equipment & System Specs
Media Composer Ultimate 2022.12.2 | Pro Tools Studio 2022.21 | Sibelius Artist 2022.12
Thank you for your response! It would be nice to hear from users, using MC on "not qualified" mobile systems though.
No worries!
I’m coming from the perspective of running an unqualified PC tower for years. Not sure what it’s like on the laptop side, but I can’t imagine it to be much different.
One big downside of course is the Avid support you get with qualified systems. Often on an unqualified sys support will blame the error (even if it is a bug) on your unqualified system.
After testing the new XPS 15 9520 (i7 12700H, 32 Gb DDR5 RAM, 1 Tb SSD, RTX 3050 Ti 4 Gb) for a few days with Premiere Pro my wife was ready to switch to Apple and is now quite happy with her MacBook Pro 14" (2021, M1 Pro 10-Core CPU/16-Core GPU, 32 Gb RAM, 1 Tb SSD).
I've edited on avid with absolute dogshit computers, I have a lot of my students editing remotely right now, and many of them are using computers that are about 5-7 years old, not many problems. Mostly any laptop that is rigged for gaming should be more than enough. The important things to keep an eye on are your RAM, I recommend something with at least 18gbs, Video Card which I recommend something like an NVIDIA GTX 1650 or above, and at least an Intel i7. I've used the Dell XPS 15's and they're good, but sometimes overwhelmingly loud. With gaming laptops, you'll see a pretty big markup on some of them because of the fancy lights, and other things that you definitely echat random don't need.
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