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I am looking to purchase a new laptop and have narrowed it down to the following 2 laptops. Please advise which would be the better purchase (heavy use of Fusion):

1. ASUS TUF Gaming A15 (2024) Gaming Laptop, 15.6” FHD 144Hz Display, NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 2050, AMD Ryzen™ 5 7535HS, 8GB DDR5, 512GB PCIe® Gen4 NVMe™ SSD, Wi-Fi 6
a. Memory upgradable to 32GB

2. Lenovo - LOQ 15.6" Gaming Laptop FHD - AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS with 8GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 6GB - 512GB SSD
a. Max memory 16GB

Your help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you

If you must use a laptop either of them will need beefier specs, especially when using Fusion. The recommended minimum amount of RAM when using Fusion is 32GB. Also if you are only going to use one SSD make it at least 1TB. Better still is to have one drive for your system and another for you media.
The more powerful the hardware that you use with Resolve the better.

Resolve mostly needs a powerful GPU. You could in theory have a pretty low powered CPU and strong GPU and do just fine. The reverse won’t work.

Charles Bennett wrote:If you must use a laptop either of them will need beefier specs, especially when using Fusion. The recommended minimum amount of RAM when using Fusion is 32GB. Also if you are only going to use one SSD make it at least 1TB. Better still is to have one drive for your system and another for you media.
The more powerful the hardware that you use with Resolve the better.

Thank you for your input. I am working with a limited budget thus the choice between these two machines. I am aware of the need for additional HDD space which both machines have expansion slots. I only use my c:\ for the OS. All installed programs and content are stored on a separate drive. My main concern is can having a 6GB video card compensate for lack of 32GB Ram. I really do appreciate your help.

Joe Shapiro wrote:Resolve mostly needs a powerful GPU. You could in theory have a pretty low powered CPU and strong GPU and do just fine. The reverse won’t work.

Thank you for your help. My main concern was could a better video card compensate for the 32GB requirement. It seems that you are saying that that is true?

Apart from the GPU, Fusion uses RAM hence Blackmagic recommend a minimum of 32GB.

I don’t really use Fusion and now use a big MacBook Pro M1 64GB machine.
That said I was amazed at how well Resolve ran and STILL runs on my MacBook M1 Air 8GB machine. Really. For anything but Fusion it’s just fine. I edited a feature on it.

Of course you’re saying heavy use of Fusion. I just didn’t try it so I don’t know how it’d do.

Thank you again

Charles Bennett wrote:Apart from the GPU, Fusion uses RAM hence Blackmagic recommend a minimum of 32GB.

Thank you again.

Joe Shapiro wrote:I don’t really use Fusion and now use a big MacBook Pro M1 64GB machine.
That said I was amazed at how well Resolve ran and STILL runs on my MacBook M1 Air 8GB machine. Really. For anything but Fusion it’s just fine. I edited a feature on it.

Of course you’re saying heavy use of Fusion. I just didn’t try it so I don’t know how it’d do.