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KCPro  
#1 Posted : Thursday, February 5, 2015 11:16:19 PM(UTC)
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I am considering adding a laptop for use with a Magewell 4000 HDMI Card.
Can anyone recommend the best Windows Laptop with Thunderbolt for this purpose.
Thanks
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#2 Posted : Saturday, February 7, 2015 4:03:55 AM(UTC)
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KCPro wrote:
I am considering adding a laptop for use with a Magewell 4000 HDMI Card.
Can anyone recommend the best Windows Laptop with Thunderbolt for this purpose.
Thanks


I'm using Macbook Pro 15" running Windows via Bootcamp (The hardware in the Macs is quite good). I have 2. When I purchased the hardware wasn't sure I wasn't going to use wirecast or Vmix, but after a no time flat decided to go Vmix. I couldn't find a PC with twin thunderbolt ports back then. Still hard. I use Magewell USB 3 capture devices (Primarily on my laptop), Black Magic Mini Recorders and most recently added one of these to get more ports: http://www.belkin.com/au/p/P-F4U085/ so I can have more full speed usb 3 ports than the macbook pro provides.

If I had a chance to start over and buy again I'd give this some serious thought (HAVE NOT TRIED IT, but I want to, already spent my money):

http://www.dell.com/au/b...ion-m3800-workstation/pd

Plus a thunderbolt PCIe Enclosure. Which is what it looks like you are interested in.

For all the Mac haters, they run Windows quite well via Bootcamp :) For quite a while it has been very hard to get a native Windows Laptop with the nice hardware of a Macbook Pro. That's changed recently.

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#3 Posted : Monday, February 9, 2015 12:38:31 PM(UTC)
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If you visit the vMix Thunder page, there is a compatibility guide that essentially shows most of the current Thunderbolt equipped PC-based laptops. It also has a breakdown on which are v1 vs v2 and which graphics card they support.

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Ken Bell - StudioCoast Systems
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