I got a GoPro recently and wanted to know what you nerds think is the best tablet for editing, storing, transferring GoPro video.

So far I've gathered from the interwebs that something Mac/Apple is best. We own mostly PC products in the house, but I'm a tech savvy guy...

thanks in advance

Why are you looking at a tablet? I took my GoPro on a scuba trip down to Mexico, and footage from just one day (maybe 1.5 hrs total) is almost 24 GB. Granted, I was shooting at 2.7K 30fps, but not sure why you wouldn't shoot in a higher resolution when you can.

Using a tablet to work with the video is going to be very limiting. It may be helpful for viewing the footage afterwards by streaming straight off the GoPro, but anything else is going to be pretty frustrating.

I'd recommend finding a cheap laptop that has an SD card slot in it so you can just transfer the files off the SD card to the laptop and then backup to a removable USB drive.

My macbook pro can barely handle basic editing from my gopro, I can't imagine any tablet would be good.

Yeah, I don't think a tablet is good for this at all.

First off, I use a reasonably high-end custom gaming laptop (about 3 years old, but still...2G i7, 16GB RAM, GTX 560M...) and it gets bogged down occasionally working with large HD vid files. No tablet has that kind of processing power.

Like TravelAg said, the files are big and you're going to run out of space on a 32-64GB tablet. I'd want a TB minimum for a machine focused on video editing. I'd also want external drive options, simple, USB ones, not complicated tablet ones or slow cloud-based ones.

Also as TravelAg pointed out, popping the micro SD out of the GoPro and into a laptop is way easier than any of the methods of transferring video to a tablet.

Lastly, a touch interface just isn't going to be good for this. Even with the laptop you'll want to use a USB or bluetooth mouse for any extensive editing.

I've been looking at buying a new laptop and trying to make sure it can handle my video edits from my GoPro are my only concern. My old ASUS really struggled with it.

Other than storage a surface pro 3 would probably fit the bill...

I guess the most expensive Surface Pro 3 unless a cheaper one can handle the editing.

Might as well get a MacBook Pro Retina that comes with iMovie. (must buy Final Cut Pro for 4K unless you want their crapy free studio software.)

In my opinion Mac is the way to go for video editing.

I've been editing 4K video on my i7 MBPro Retina with Final Cut Pro.
Here's a video I made on YouTube.