Acquiring a new laptop.

Hi,

I've read that for video editing (and/or 3D rendering), it's much better to start at 16 GiB of ram instead.
8 is possible, but might be not enough for heavy duty editing.
For gaming, I suppose 8 Gib of ram is enough though.

Also you'd need a strong CPU chip. I mean the strongest, the better.
For example, using my Thinkpad X200 for fairly basic tasks, it feels it couldn't handle heavier tasks so easily.
If I'm not mistaken, it's the strongest Libreboot latop.
Maybe it can run the games you mentioned on high setting, I don't know.

But I doubt it would be very fluid for real video editing, though I could be mistaken.

My guess is you're going to be stuck with medium settings for game graphics, unless you're willing to experience really choppy gameplay (low FPS), on any of the Libreboot-supported laptops. I'm not sure, though.

Thank you very much "hack and hack" and "onpon4".

I will wait for more comments, I really wish someone who have tried them could share with us his/her experiences.

I also have the option to buy from thinkpenguin but having a 100% free as in freedom computer is very tempting...

I don't think you want a laptop for editing video. This is a very CPU intensive process. Plus, uncompressed video is huge and you'll need a lot of storage. For libreboot-supported machines look at the ASUS KFSN4-DRE. Dual hex core CPUs and 64GB of RAM should be enough for such a task. :)

The only fully supported graphics hardware is from Intel, and it's integrated, so it's much slower than a dedicated graphics card that would be fully supported (Nouveau still can't reclock any Fermi or Kepler graphics cards).

Even the best Broadwell Intel IGP, without the proprietary microcode updates, will hardly run Xonotic on medium settings in 1600×900.

Thank you jxself.

With the feedback all of you gave me, I will not use a laptop for my video editing, I will use the motherboard jxself recommended at the given time.

I still want to know if libreboot laptops are able to handle Xonotic, Doom 3 and The Darkmod with relative fluidity, did anyone tried it?

Thank you for all your answers :)

EDIT: I wrote that at the same time Calinou did so I didn't saw his/her comment.

Well, then I know I cannot run those games on libreboot laptops, I can buy one of the powerful thinkpenguin's PCs as an option... I don't know.

I need time to think about my priorities... several days at least, but now is up to me...

Thank you very much everyone, you have been great help :)