GoKawiilSam Henri Gold last week wrote a rather sweet blog post about the difference between advice from tech reviewers and real-world usage of our devices.
He rejected arguments by reviewers saying that the MacBook Neo is not the right machine for those wanting to do things like video editing, and a new test backs his view …
Gold reminisced about his childhood video editing on a hand-me-down Mac.
I was running Final Cut Pro X on a 2006 Core 2 Duo iMac with 3GB RAM and 120GB of spinning rust. I was nine. I had no business doing this. I did it every day after school until my parents made me go to bed […] I knew the machine was wrong for what I wanted to do with it. I didn’t care.
He says the same will be true of the MacBook Neo. It might not be the machine reviewers would recommend for video editing, but plenty of people will do it and it will be just fine.
Tyler Stalman already proved this with Final Cut Pro, and Macworld’s Roman Loyola had exactly the same experience with Adobe Premiere Pro. He noted that, yes, the machine will run out of RAM and need to use swap memory – but this doesn’t pose a problem in the slightest. He edited both 1080p and 4K video in Adobe’s professional-grade app.
The whole experience went off without a hitch. I never had to wait for the Mac to catch up to what I was doing, nor did the MacBook Neo stall, hiccup, or churn […] During this task, I ended up with 2.58GB in swap (which isn’t uncommon), but I never noticed a performance hit.
Amusingly, it was Google’s Chrome browser – a notoriously memory-hungry app – which posed the bigger challenge. But again, this didn’t prove problematic.
I pushed my browser until I had 59 tabs open, stopping only when it became way too difficult to navigate. The swap grew to nearly 8GB–the swap and the installed RAM were the same size […] But once again, the MacBook Neo didn’t flinch. I could switch between tabs easily, and even when I used an app and kept Chrome open in the background, there was no noticeable performance hit.
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