I haven't really looked much into laptops with Vmix until the last couple days when I decided I wanted to build a sports streaming set up I can use in cases where I may be far away from shore power and won't be able to use a generator either.

Basically I just need to know if a laptop set up will be able to handle what I want it to-

Four or five camera input switching and four camera replay at 1080p60. No recording or streaming on that main laptop. I'll output to a LiveU Solo for streaming and to an Atomos Ninja Flame for recording (also used as announcers video monitor).

I'll have a second laptop. It will be used for a few things- Scoreboard OCR sent via NDI to the main laptop, Mumble server for wireless comms (over LAN), run Vmix and send program to it via NDI from main laptop for second recording (redundancy).

Would that set up be able to handle all that? All devices plugged into something like this- https://www.amazon.com/d...amp;ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it for power so I don't need to be tied down to shore power or gas generator.

I was going to use a Decklink Duo 2 in an enclosure for the inputs, but I do need two outputs (to recorder and LiveU Solo), so could I attach two cheaper HDMI capture cards via USB to output to the recorder and Solo? If I do five cameras I'll need more anyway so could get a Decklink Quad and configure it to five inputs and five outputs...

That would be cool if you could test four camera replay. I wouldn't ever be running it out of a car but desolate small town sports fields. I was looking at 17" models due to the bigger screen, but that is a big difference in power needed between 15" and 17." Makes me wonder how long that Rockpals charger I linked could run one of those puppies. The Acer Helios 500 (230w power supply) I was looking at has a 4810mah battery and supposedly will last a little over an hour on heavy load. That Rockpals 250w charging station is 64,000mah so I guess it would do fine.

I saw those HP Omen laptops so I'll check those out also.

Jack,

have you ever been able to run the tests on the Omen 15 with the 4 cam replay setup? I would be really curious about your findings! :-)

Thank you!

Thanks, Jack, that's really useful information!

we've got an omen touchscreen and can't stress how much we don't use the touchscreen even though it sounds like the perfect control board in case you're thinking of trading anything off for that

Hey Carlos,

Honestly I would go with the Omen. I agree with Barney Box Lane, touch screen functionality has never been useful to us either, but the omen's just run so well I'm almost tired of testing other brands. The thing that makes it most worth it to me as dumb as it sounds is the "HP support center" app baked into the omen. This puts all your hardware updated in one place minus the graphics card which is still under Geforce. Soundcard, wifi card, motherboard, cpu, all of the random hardware updates.

I have to deploy these machines to "windows noobs" if you will, and if the machine doesn't just "work" right, then it becomes a mess for me as support. The Omen Laptops have all just worked...if you go HDMI out to a blackmagic switcher or monitor, or multiple monitors, it just does what you want...any other machines I've worked with (especially ones with optimus graphics) I feel like I always end up fighting with somehow. The only other machines I haven't had issues with are the ones that I personally built.

I haven't had a chance to test the new 2019 Omen laptops yet, but I think because they are such a small team building these doing much smaller runs than other major brands, they can put a lot more care and attention into their products. If I'm not mistaken they are still one of the only gaming laptop builders that use liquid metal for their thermal cooling (there may be one other brand now doing it, but up until 6 months ago it was just Omen).

and no, I don't work for Omen lol. If you end up going with the Predator though, definitely let us know how it is.

I think the next laptops I'll be testing are the new Elektronics laptops that Intel are building, and some of the Asus Rog line maybe.