Laptop purchase

For that price look for a laptop with a GTX1050 gpu

For a little more, around 1200 or 1300, you can get one with a GTX 1060, that is significantly better.

But you will more than happy with the gtx 1050. Does it really need to be a laptop? As a comparison, you can build a desktop with a gtx 1050 for around 500-600€

>>308761
Yes, it needs to be a laptop.

And about the gpu: is it necessary or even recommended for modest video editing? If yes, should I trade a better gpu for a worse cpu (say i5 instead of i7)?

>>308783
Yes, go for the gpu, the cpu wont make that much a difference, plus with your budget you can get one with a 1050 and a good quadcore i7

>>308802
actually I informed myself and for video editing you should go for the better cpu

>>308783
>>308802
>>308806
OP, this is the second time you've made this thread and for the love of god get the GPU.

You can upgrade your CPU later. Your GPU is soldered to the board and can never be upgraded.

The difference between hyperthreading and no-hyperthreading (which is the difference between an i5 and an i7) is pretty-much non-existant in workloads like video rendering that apply the exact same operations over and over again. The hyperthreaded threads can't actually get any work done because they're waiting on the exact same functional units that the real threads are using.

Plus all modern graphics software uses CUDA, so having a GPU that's twice as powerful will make a big difference.

Finally, as well as gaming nearly twice as well, the 1050 can do 4k Netflix, and the 960M can't. (Similarly, the i5-7xxx can, and an iAnything-6xxx can't).

>>308927
Just tell him he needs a hardcore gamer laptop to bukkake on his wannabe ambitions. Street price starting from 1300+ USD regardless of brand, because those ones have components from the limited same two known manufacturers.

>>308962
He posted a $1000 one last time, and that's the one he should buy.

Pascal and Kaby Lake will be perfectly acceptable for the next 5-6 years. It'll be playing modern games on at least "medium" for the next 3-4 years. It's hard to articulate how big a step forward the current generation of GPUs are, but I'll start by pointing out that there's no "M" on the end anymore: the chips in the laptops are the same exact chips as are on the graphics cards.

You would be a complete idiot to get a Skylake with a Maxwell just to get hyperthreading: the GPU performance will be miles worse, the battery life will be miles worse, and the heat and fan noise will annoy. All for an improvement mostly seen in games, which you can't make use of because you have an obsolete GPU.

>>308967
Fair enough m8.

>>308736
Did you got that OP?