Help Choosing a Laptop (Instore Credit at Harvey Norman)

LRidLim on 19/04/2024 - 11:44
Last edited 19/04/2024 - 14:44 by 1 other user

My old Laptop died but had product care through Harvey Norman and I'm getting all $666 back as a store credit.

I'm looking at buying a better spec new machine due to a change in workflow requiring me to do some light editing and footage culling in DaVinci Resolve. We use H264 422 footage just as a FYI as I'm aware than Intel chips allow for that playback natively without using DaVinci proxies. However, that is not a deal breaker.

From everything I've read the 8845hs is generally a better chip than the Ultra 7 155h. And being cheaper and a larger screen is a bonus. However, the OLED screen of the Yoga feels like future proofing. Basically, not sure if the $200 premium for OLED is worth it. And any insights would be awesome.

They told me they could probably knock off $100 extra on either of them too.

IdeaPad $1799 ($1700)

Yoga 7 $1998 ($1900)

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  • 7
    Lenovo IdeaPad 5 16inch R7-8845HS/16GB/1TB SSD 2-in-1 Laptop
  • 4
    Lenovo Yoga 7 14inch ULT7-155H/16GB/1TB SSD 2-in-1 Laptop
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  • freefall101 on 19/04/2024 - 11:49
    +1

    However the OLED screen of the Yoga feels like future proofing.

    Future proofing for what exactly? There's not going to be a future where OLED will work and an IPS screen will cause issues.

    • RidLim on 19/04/2024 - 11:55
      +1

      Good point. Future proofing probably the wrong wording. I'm just aware that the tech is newer and can provide better colour accuracy.

      • freefall101 on 19/04/2024 - 12:30
        +1

        IPS still provides better colour accuracy, OLED is great for watching things on because of the depths of blacks, but not accuracy.

        Is it also worth looking at laptops with a GPU? I believe Resolve can be GPU accelerated (looking at google alone).

        • RidLim on 19/04/2024 - 13:21
          +1

          Something with a GPU isn't necessary as the codec we render out to is CPU intensive rather than GPU. It would maybe help when looking at the timeline but that didn't seem to be much of an issue on the dead laptop which was a 1155g7.

  • CascadeHush on 19/04/2024 - 12:19
    +2

    666!? Jerry is the antichrist; I knew it!

    • jv on 19/04/2024 - 15:31
      +1

      Jerry is the antichrist

      😲

  • Yuri Lowell on 19/04/2024 - 12:35

    Don't compromise on the screen. $200 well and truly justifies the OLED screen but you can probably get cheaper alternatives which still have an OLED screen. I would never touch an IPS screen again, the difference is massive. Check them out in store if you're not sure and see the difference in screen quality in person.

    • RidLim on 19/04/2024 - 13:05

      Yep, heading in this evening after work. I've had a poke around the store before. But now I have confirmation of prices and stuff. Bit easier to focus up. Thanks for the insight

  • Bloggz on 19/04/2024 - 13:04

    Two other factors for you to consider:
    1. How colour accurate is each screen (unfortunately the HN site doesn't give much info so you have to dig into the Lenovo docs)? For video editing colour accuracy is important if you want your videos to look like they looked when you edited them.
    2. RAM - if you're only doing light editing, you should be fine with 16GB, but consider 32GB or at least see if you have any options to expand RAM capacity at a later date?

    • RidLim on 19/04/2024 - 13:09
      +1

      The equivalent model on the Lenovo store, as well as 90% of their OLED panels are 100% DCI-P3 and HDR 500. So I would assume it's the same but will definitely make sure in store.

      I'm not super worried about maxing out the RAM doing what I'm doing. I have 16GB of DDR4 in my tower and rendering on that hasn't maxed it out.

      Cheers though

  • jv on 19/04/2024 - 15:29
    +1

    all $666 back

    😲

    • RidLim on 19/04/2024 - 16:00

      No wonder the last one's capacitors spontaneously combusted

    • payless69 on 21/04/2024 - 06:32

      Lucky number
      but might be enough for a Nokia phone with Endless Optus?

  • RidLim on 19/04/2024 - 19:38

    FYI I went with the ideapad 5 over the yoga.

  • payless69 on 22/04/2024 - 11:27

    Think of all them pain of suffering dogs locked in vehicles!

    Now do the right thing and buy a huge bag of dog food for Gerry to set an example!

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