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Apologies if this post ain't right for this community! I'm admittedly not interested in self-hosting myself, but I've a close buddy who's wanting to get back to streaming, but rightfully hates Amazon. He's wanting to self-host with Owncast to do video streaming with his pals, but lives in a very small flat with very little free space - hence the request for a laptop.

Ideally he's needing something great for video encoding, and Linux friendly to boot. No Windows. Mate's got a budget of ~£1,000.

If there's a better community for this lemme know!

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Is he doing transcoding on the hardware itself?

If so, despite their current shits-on-fire stuff, it's really hard to beat Intel QSV.

In any case, do not rely on AMD's VCE if you care at all about quality, because right now it's still awful.

QSV, nvenc, or do it on the CPU with x264/265.

(Not a specific laptop recommendation, but just a AMD-still-kinda-has-a-deficiency-here post.)