Best Laptop to store Plex on

Question

I’m a cord cutter and currently use Plex Media server, stored on my PC, and Roku, to watch all of my content. I’m in Canada, so I also use a VPN to watch American content.

I need a laptop to download my Plex server to so that I can travel with it. I don’t store movies, etc, just stream from Primewire, networks, etc, through Plex. At home it would be my media centre through my smart tv and Roku. What should I buy? I've been looking at the Asus Zenbook Flip UX360CA.

Thank you
Steve

Nathan Kinkead · Answer

Steve,

That's a pretty open-ended question.  You're just asking me which laptop you should buy?  It seems like it just needs to be powerful enough to not slow down your Plex streaming.

I like Asus laptops, but there are plenty of other good brands, too.

I'll just talk specs now.

- Decent processor.  At least i5, recommended i7.

- Lots of RAM.  This is probably one of the biggest things that most PC makers fail on.  These days, I need at least 16 GB of RAM because I hate it when my apps use up all my RAM and stuff starts slowing down.  But for the average user, I still say 8 GB minimum.

- SSD.  This is a must.  I will never own a computer again that doesn't have an SSD.  The old HDDs are much slower and get even slower over time, and often fail.