Hey, just need some advice from you guys. Im going to put together a streaming kit. I currently have a MacBook Pro 19” 2019 with four Thunderbolt 3 ports. I have been considering the AJA IO 4K Plus in combination with Wirecast. I don’t particularly like Wirecast though as Ive tried it sometimes in the past. And I understand that it is more CPU-demanding than vMix.

vMix looks really great though so another option could be to buy an AlienWare laptop with Thunderbolt 3 and put a Blackmagic Decklink 8K Pro inside a StarTech Thunderbolt 3 PCIe Expansion:

https://www.multicom.no/...pansion/cat-p/c/p9772895

I can not get a hold of the Akitio LITE enclosure here where I live so Im hoping this StarTech enclosure will do just as fine.

I will mostly be streaming and recording ISO (3 or 4 inputs) in 1920x1080 but do you think the MacBook and Alienware laptop would be able to also do this in 4K if I should ever need to? It would be nice to have the option so I don’t have to upgrade later.

I first considered the Blackmagic Duo card but it is PCI generation 2 and I think that a faster performing PCI card (Generation 3) would be better in terms of speed and a safer option. The StarTech PCI Expansion is Gen 3 as well.

Any other laptops I should consider? I saw that the AlienWare laptop was recommended on the vMix site. Any comments on this is great.. is it noisy? Is it reliable? Is the GSYNC thing that important? I can now get a 15% discount on it if I order before the end of September. Cant wait to start putting this stuff together

So what do you experienced Vmix users recommend? :)

The big disadvantage of choosing a Mac is their preference for AMD GPUs. vMix works best when you can leverage the hardware encoding found on nVidia GPUs. If you can't, it will need a lot more CPU.

Thanks, I chose an Acer Predator Triton 500 (i7, 16GB, 1TB and Geforce 2060-2080) Works like a charm!!!