Overall, you need to check for three specs: a 16 GB of RAM (memory), a powerful graphics card, and a multicore processor.

While selecting a MacBook, you have to consider its ability to handle graphically intensive tasks when editing and rendering videos.

Now my only question is, which configuration should I get? I do all my editing off an external SSD and won’t be installing that much on the MacBook other than logic, davinci and a few other apps, but what about RAM? It seems to drive the price up very rapidly which kind of ruins the value proposition but I also don’t want to end up with a device that won’t be able to keep up in a year either.Is a MacBook Air ideal for video editing? With the M1 performance and chip boost in the MacBook Air, users will be pleased to determine that the video editing in M1 MacBook Air is good enough to fit for an editor’s requirements, regardless of the kinds of video editing they perform. I am extremely intrigued by the new MacBook Air with the M1 chip, it seems to me like it could provide me with the best of both worlds, as I don’t need my portable to be the fastest most powerful device I own, but it seems it would be more than enough for what I need it for. However, I want a device to a) be able to take with me to shoots b)do quick simple edits on to show a client what we will be doing for example c)just everyday here and there office use, entertainment consumption etc.

I do most of my editing on a beast of a windows desktop in Davinci Resolve. So, I’ve been using an iPad Pro (2018) since early 2020, but the dream of it actually becoming a laptop replacement never materialised, I am a musician and video editor and it simply lacks the “pro” applications that I need to use for clients.

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