Which laptop would you buy ?

the graphic card  specs? would you pay extra or wait to get a laptop with thunderbolt connection ? 

makopolok wrote:
the graphic card  specs? would you pay extra or wait to get a laptop with thunderbolt connection ? 
Laptops with Thunderbolt connections are available.  I am writing this on an early ASUS G750JW that has that interface.  I have upgraded it with more memory and 3 SSD's.  The Thunderbolt (version 1) on this laptop and the Thunderbolt 2 are not GPUs that use the GPU for hardware accelerated MPE.
If money were no object I would probably have purchased an ASUS G750JH-DB1.  It has an i7-4700HQ processor, 24 GB of RAM, an nVidia GTX 780M (the fastest nVidia mobile GPU that is made for Premiere hardware acceleration), a pair of SSD, in RAID 0 plus a lousy 5400 rpm 1TB hard drive
Do not forget that the only way to do editing with this or any other laptops is to have them plugged in an AC outlet!  As soon as you start using on the battery only, the speed of every thing drops down significantly

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