What you think of this workstation

Hi every one, I would like to get some advice of laptop workstation for video editing and after effect projects files.
Do you think that
HP Elitebook 8770w Mobile Workstation
4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 SDRAM
500 GB 7200 rpm SATA II
AMD FirePro™ M4000 (1 GB dedicated GDDR5)
Or this Workstation
HP EliteBook 8560w Mobile Workstation
Genuine Windows® 7 Professional (64-bit)
Intel® Core™ i7-2860 QM Processor
8GB Memory
750GB Hard drive
39.6cm,15.6" HD Display
NVIDIA Quadro 2000M graphics 2GB
Wireless, Bluetooth, Webcam , DVD+/-RW
with it handle the randreing of HD and 4K footages in AE & PR?
Thank you

Neither of those two laptops is anywhere near powerful enough for 4K (and barely powerful enough for ordinary HD), unfortunately. (If you take look at the results list on the PPBM5 site, you will find that the fastest mobile-CPU-equipped laptop on the list is more than three times slower than a fast desktop PC in terms of the Relative Performance Index, or RPI.) The first laptop listed should be eliminated (as equipped) due to its insufficient amount of RAM and a GPU that cannot utilize MPE GPU acceleration at all. And since you did not list a CPU for the 8770w, I would have to assume that it has only a dual-core i5 CPU based on the lesser specs of that configuration. And based on my testing, no dual-core CPU - not even a desktop dual-core CPU - performs as fast as even a mediocre-performing quad-core CPU in CS5 or CS6.
The 8560w configuration, on the other hand, is slightly older, and it still delivers a poor bang for the buck.
So, if you were to custom-configure that 8770w, go with only a CPU whose model number ends in "QM" or "XM", one of the Quadros (the FirePro cannot utilize MPE GPU acceleration at all, and thus permanently locking CS6 to the software-only mode) and 16GB of RAM (yes, laptops really need all that RAM just to perform anywhere near as well as even a "budget"-class desktop). Also, you will need more than one fast hard drive just to run Premiere Pro to anyone's satisfaction (since all mobile hard drives use the SATA connection that cannot transfer in both directions simultaneously - they can only transfer in one direction at a time, but editing requires simultaneous bi-directional transfers).

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I don't know how I could have made my question any more clear -- so let me try approaching it the other way around, and refer back to your answer(s).
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TTell me what I need to work on and how. Thanks in advance.

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One way of rectifying that is to use mesh fills so you can add highlights, darker regions and "easily" modify them as you go. This would give the drawing some dimension. You could also go for making a bazillion polygons to go for a more modernistic interpretation.
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Mike

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Hello very good. I'm from Spain and I'm translating this with a translator. Sorry if you not understand what I mean.
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