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hey how's it gone cave QD here so this is the video on what I believe to be the best laptops for content creation so your mileage is going to vary everyone's idea of content creation a little bit different but mine is video editing so this is obviously a video that's kind of geared towards video editing the other thing is that these laptops are all 14 or 15 inch screens and I chose them because I prefer working off of larger screens it's kind of see what I'm doing but it's also because you get the quad core processors with these larger devices and quad core processors are important for me so yeah that's what we're getting 14 inch or 15 inch laptops with quad core processors let us begin actually before we go in I've done individual reviews for each one of these so if you're interested I will link the individual reviews below and yeah first up XPS 15 this is the device that are used for most of 2016 I want to say like 80% of my videos from last year we're done on the XPS 15 the older version this is the newer one my favorite features the 4k screen extremely color accurate and the thin bezels are nice I also like that you can stick 32 gigs of ram in here and the battery life is also good it's an easy seven or eight hours on this thing the things like don't like the speakers are not very good they're in a bad position and they're small it also only has three USB ports one of them being Thunderbolt 3 I would occasionally run out of ports one had a lot of like drives and stuff connected to it but overall really good performance really good device next is the razor blade this is the KB Lake model running a GTX 1060 it's really similar to the skylake just a little bit more efficient so obviously one of the big advantages of the razor blade is the gtx 1060 in a relatively thin and light chassis and that makes it pretty unique but one of the things that I recently started doing was customizing keyboard shortcuts so in Premiere I bind things for video editing like zooming in and out instead of the plus and minus keys or even using the mouse scroll I'll bind it two three and four so I can just do it with one hand and this isn't just for premiere you can do this with most applications but recently I tried changing the colors of my keys to these shortcuts and because it has individual RGB for each key I really like it and when you're done you can the profile back to normal I don't like that the RAM on this is soldered on I'd love to get 32 gigs on this but I'm stuck at 16 and Phandroid can get loud the KB Lake model runs a little bit quieter than the skylake model like the fans don't come on as readily so it's a more efficient chip but if the GTX 1060 in there when you're doing heavy stuff Vande kick in it's going to be loud okay the third thing this mix is a 2016 MacBook Pro I have like a love-hate relationship with this thing it looks awesome and pricing has improved quite a bit because it's now in the Apple refurbished store things I like about it I like to build quality I think it's phenomenal speakers are amazing I can edit videos right off of these speakers screen is really good keyboard is well everyone's a little bit different some people hate it some people love it my personal experience I like it I legitimately like it but everyone's gonna be different some people just going to hate this thing forever that's okay the touch bar is whatever at this point I think it's a gimmick I never use it I also don't love the port situation and the graphics chip in here the Radeon Pro 460 for the right application it's good like if your Final Cut user it's perfect but if you're an Adobe user and I'm a joky user it doesn't really perform that well and for most people who are on a tighter budget but really want to get a Mac for content creation I would steer them towards the 2015 model you can get some really good pricing on this and they're just almost identical in performance to the new model in case you're wondering all these laptops have skins on them they're like a marble skin if you're interested in picking one up there's a link in the video description and none of these are cheap and I need to stress the fact that you totally don't need equipment like this to make a really good content like these are expensive but the way I see it is this if you can get equipment that speeds up your workflow just make the whole content creation process that much better one of the reasons why these are so expensive aside from being thin and light machines is because the screens are really good quality of their color accurate and bright and the razor blade has an updated four Cape annal that's coming out soon okay I want to briefly talk about performance last year most of my contents were shot on a 4k camera called the Panasonic gh4 this year most of my stuff is shot on a 5k camera called the Scarlett W now in general it's just bigger files higher resolution files so editing that stuff takes a little more horsepower the GTX 1060 on the razor blade doesn't make a huge difference or 4k content over the 1050 but when you go to higher resolution files the difference is more noticeable the biggest difference though comes from switching from Nvidia graphics to the AMD graphics which you find on Mac books Adobe Premiere performs much better on Nvidia chips because of the CUDA cores AMD chips like the ones in current Mac books use OpenCL or metal to render the short of it is this if you use Adobe Premiere you're going to get way better performance with NVIDIA chips but if you use final cut those AMD chips are great now I use Adobe Premiere but the only reason why I use it is because that's just what I learned on any of the editing programs are great if you look at the render times like some people will really fixate on this and think that Final Cut is the better program because it renders faster it does but really when you make a video some of these are like 20 hour jobs who cares we wait an extra 5 or 10 minutes it's really not a big deal any one of the editing programs are great including the ones that I've never even heard of or used if they exist on the market you can make youtube videos really well with some ok I hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs of you liked it subs we loved it see you guys next time