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Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro

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1080 points antipaul | 2 comments | 12 Nov 20 00:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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justinator ◴[12 Nov 20 02:00 UTC] No.25065565[source]▶
The 16GB max ram still seems a head scratcher. Not what would suppose I want for video editing.
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crazygringo ◴[12 Nov 20 04:51 UTC] No.25066571[source]▶
What do you need more memory for with video editing?

Video editing's all done on disk isn't it? It's not like editing programs are loading a 20 GB file into memory?

Even just 8 GB has never given me any problems with video editing.

What am I missing here?

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1. Beached ◴[14 Nov 20 05:12 UTC] No.25090455[source]▶
editing programs are loading a ton into memory though. edits are done in memory before their final output is saved to disk. if your viewing it on the screen, it is almost certainly in memory, and if your working with high res video you very well could exceed 16gb. more memory means larger (longer clips or higher res) video files loaded to memory means faster and more efficient working
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2. justinator ◴[14 Nov 20 18:08 UTC] No.25094163[source]▶
Kinda my thought exactly. Although most any video editing software uses proxy files, so you don't have to load in the original hi-res footage.

It's just that... swapping data in and out of ram is far slower than clock speed, right? So if the bottleneck is RAM, would it make sense to get the most RAM? (ie: Intel Mac)