Was looking at all the 14" Thinkpad Yoga's..... the x1 Yoga and P40 Yoga... I wouldn't buy anything but a Thinkpad!

will be maxing one out for my needs but what one? will mostly be doing web browsing but I want to get into heavy 1080P/4K video editing

Was looking at both with an i7-6600U, 16 GB of ram, 512 ssd and WQHD screens..... do you think it's worth the extra 1 or 2 HUNDRED dollars before shipping/tax to get the nvidia m500m dedicated graphics over the intel 520 graphics for what I'm doing? that is the only difference I will have to make.....I personally would go with the nvidia option however 1080P/4K is quite the video for a laptop. Maybe someone else here would be able to share if its going to handle that well or not. It might be able to run 1080P or 4K but frame rate might be not the greatest and it might get choppy at 4K.

 A desktop setup would handle that kind of video processing /editing workload better as well as allow for further upgrading of the GPU and possibly even CPU if ever needed. There are performance differences between an i7 for laptop and an i7 for desktop. You get far more processing power from a desktop i7 than a laptop i7. This is due to the fact that the laptop CPU's need to run on lesser TDP so while they are both i7's there is a noticeable difference between laptop and desktop CPUs. In marketing anyone not knowing of this difference will go with it as i7's being the same between them not knowing that a desktop would perform better if both brand new with i7's.It really comes down to whether the video editing software you use can be accelerated using the GPU - If it isn't then the GPU probably isn't worth it.  As Dave says, for lots of video editing the ULV CPU in that machine will likely struggle, it'll do it but it will be quite slow when rendering.  In order to get a full voltage chip however you'd have to lose the convertible functionality and go for a physically thicker machine with a full voltage quad core chip such as the ThinkPad P50 or (when it comes out) the T460p.  This is one of those classic cases where you really need to pick either size or performance.I need the portability of a laptop for college.... I did consider a desktop but I would than have to spend extra money for a low end laptop.... save myself $300 and spec out a laptop I can use..... to edit 1080p video and sometimes maybe 4k video.... I only have $2200 to spend max and would like to get a 14" laptopPersonally with that budget I'd build a decent desktop and then spend around $500 on a refurbished/used ThinkPad.  You could get something like a t440, t440s or x240 for around that price or something a bit older (but still decent) such as an x230 for even less.

Alternatively you could get a nice new laptop and buy/build a mid range desktop. Even a basic i5 based desktop COSTING well under $1000 would blow the ULV i7 out of the water.

For context, I have a ThinkPad T440s with an i5 4300U.  It's fine for day to day use around university but I do often find that the CPU can be a bit sluggish for CPU heavy workloads.  In a recent coursework that involves running network simulations I found the CPU to be frustratingly sluggish and ended up running the simulations on my Xeon E3-1226 v3 based home SERVER which worked out MILES faster.well now that you say, I was looking at a p50 with i7-6700hq, 4K display, 16 GB of ram, and 500 GB hdd (only way to get proprietary sata adapter and not an M.2 ssd) how would this go if I was to edit 720p video max?

I come to find out that the highest speed my isp will give in my area is 10 mbps down and 700-1000 kbps upload (more close to 700 kbps up), so uploading 1080p video to youtube for everybody and the family back home will take at least an hour or more (that's how long it took last time I uploaded).....The P50 is a great machine and that is probably going to be powerful enough for what you are doing but bear in mind the size - It's bulky if you are going to be carrying it around every day.

I presume you will be using an SSD as well as the hard drive in that machine?  Buying a machine like that and running it off of a hard drive is really going to impact the performance.  Also bear in mind that Lenovo offer PCI-E SSDs with it which will be a lot faster than a regular SATA drive.

As far as uploading - I have a 2mbps upload speed (40 down) (really annoying since the line I have can easily support 10mbps upstream but my ISP doesn't resell that plan, ANYWAY...) - I upload 1080p videos, I just leave videos to upload overnight - They only take a couple of hours but it means the upload gets exclusive use of the connection. Quote from: camerongray on March 06, 2016, 11:22:55 AM

The P50 is a great machine and that is probably going to be powerful enough for what you are doing but bear in mind the size - It's bulky if you are going to be carrying it around every day.

I presume you will be using an SSD as well as the hard drive in that machine?  Buying a machine like that and running it off of a hard drive is really going to impact the performance.  Also bear in mind that Lenovo offer PCI-E SSDs with it which will be a lot faster than a regular SATA drive.

As far as uploading - I have a 2mbps upload speed (40 down) (really annoying since the line I have can easily support 10mbps upstream but my ISP doesn't resell that plan, anyway...) - I upload 1080p videos, I just leave videos to upload overnight - They only take a couple of hours but it means the upload gets exclusive use of the connection.