I'm currently using my old Alienware M17x laptop (I am on the road a LOT so a laptop is required) which has an nVidia GTX 680m, 16 Gig of system RAM, and the CPU is a 3 or 4 year old Intel i7-3630QM @2.40 GHz. I think that's a dual core CPU.
It works OK for my work, a bit slow but OK.
This old machine is now breaking down and I am going to buy a new notebook. Since I travel so much, lightweight and long battery life is everything. I'll be getting a 1920x1080 display (I don't yet like some of the ways Windows 10 scales the 4K screens) so I'll be editing again at those levels.
There are a lot of options, and on any of them I'll be using the i7 Skylake (or perhaps the next gen i7 Kaby Lake quad core) dual core CPUs. But what is holding me back on the various options is the video card.
I can get a laptop with the nVidia Geforce GTX 1060 with 6G of RAm, but I give up battery life and weight. I can also get systems with nVidia Quadro M1000M, or systems simply with an Intel HD 520 or Intel Iris GPUs.
Right now the GPU is what is holding me back on choosing a system. For what I do, will any of those GPUs be fine? Or are any of those graphics options going to be problematic?
Thanks very much.