buying new surface pro 4

[techi]

I am hoping to play 4k videos smoothly, and edit fhd videos using premiere pro, vmware
Other than that ,mostly serving internet , microsoft office

These are my concerns.
i5 8gb ram is the most popular version and price performance ratio value.
I heard issue with loud fan noise ? Unsure if this is able to play 4k video smoothly? edit fhd video using premiere pro?

i7 16gb ram seems to power limit thottering making it same performance as i5 and battery life lesser than i5 8gb

There's only 2 year warranty with microsoft complete, Is it sufficient? compared to normal laptop of 3 year warranty.

and is now the right time to get 1 since it have been launch 6 months ago, or should i wait for pro 5 which is rumor june/july or october?

Thank you.

 

[Chintan Gohel]

I am hoping to play 4k videos smoothly, and edit fhd videos using premiere pro, vmware
Other than that ,mostly serving internet , microsoft office

These are my concerns.
i5 8gb ram is the most popular version and price performance ratio value.
I heard issue with loud fan noise ? Unsure if this is able to play 4k video smoothly? edit fhd video using premiere pro?

i7 16gb ram seems to power limit thottering making it same performance as i5 and battery life lesser than i5 8gb

There's only 2 year warranty with microsoft complete, Is it sufficient? compared to normal laptop of 3 year warranty.

and is now the right time to get 1 since it have been launch 6 months ago, or should i wait for pro 5 which is rumor june/july or october?

Thank you.

for editing videos as per my understanding you need a lot of RAM and graphics which the surface book is better able to provide. 8GB is good enough for the programs you're thinking of. A suggestion I have is to check the website for premier pro and see if they have any requirements for pc specifications and then check if the surface pro 4 meets them

 

[anon(5327127)]

edit fhd videos using premiere pro, vmware"

As far as I'm aware the SP'3' i7 throttled like crazy with the SP'4' i7 being pretty darn good. The Core M should play 4k video perfectly fine.

I'd go for the i7, 16Gb all day long and it'll hold value for longer.

 

[onlysublime]

I have the SP4 with i7, 8GB RAM, 256GB storage and the machine is a beast. The GPU in the i7 is a big step up from the GPU in the i5.

I do edit videos on the SP4 (final renders are on my desktop because it's a waste of a great laptop/tablet to just let it sit there rendering) in Premiere Pro.

The i7 in the SP3 was crippled by heating problems (because the SP3 and SP4 chassis design were intended for the cooler-running Broadwell CPU design but Broadwell was so late that Microsoft had to put the hotter Haswell back into the SP3).