Is a MacBook Air good for video editing on Premiere Pro CC 2019?

[melon]

Is it?

[Mad Scientist]

If you're just making ultra basic edits sure.
Though a lot of modern programs can utilize a CPU and GPU for rendering videos quickly on a PC. Not sure why you would want to render only on a CPU.

[Harry Gumdropzap]

you can but there are better options for the price, like this laptop i just randomly found on amazon[www.amazon.com]
it has a i7-8565U instead of the i5 8th generation and 16GB RAM instead of the 8GB, much more ideal for video editing
or this one[www.amazon.com], same as the one above but with a 1050
i didnt look up the thermals on these, but you can easily figure that out

[36564176]

why pay for the apple logo? a windows laptop can get more bang for your buck

[trousers]

Very basic editing, yes, but the Air is only dual-core as I recall, and has generic integrated graphics. It's more for surfing the web, office or school work on the move, that sort of thing. Serious video editing is going to be difficult (and slow) on one.

The Pro models are much more geared towards resource intensive work like video editing. They are of course, much more expensive.

So, depends what you want to do.

If your workflow doesn't need a Mac, or you don't usually use one - remember there are lots of great Windows based alternatives out there with equal or better specs to some of the MacBook Pro models, for quite a bit cheaper. Can be hard to find Windows laptops with as good (and 16:10!) screens though. Second-hand MacBooks are also a thing and sometimes way better deals than buying brand new. But riskier.

[Mad Scientist]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von jack of no trades:

why pay for the apple logo? a windows laptop can get more bang for your buck

This.
Laptop CPU, no dedicated GPU, it's an Apple so it's practically useless and if the OP needs something fixed/ replaced they're going to want to replace entire pieces for an absurd amount of money rather than the easy-fixes as seen by Louis Rossman.

@GameFanaticTV - Seriously, don't go for apple. Get and use a pc or pc laptop and get a non-subscription based service where you actually own the copy of the program. Not to mention you can still use it for everything else and game on it depending on the game and specifications. Follow Barnacle Boys links, preferably the one with an actual video card in it if you still intend on playing games or not doing stupidly basic editing cuts. Either way, people think apple is the way to go for these things; they arent. Brand price tag vs actual performance by dollar for Barnacle Boys links; yeah, I'd choose what he suggests.

[trousers]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Orion:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von jack of no trades:

why pay for the apple logo? a windows laptop can get more bang for your buck

This.
Laptop CPU, no dedicated GPU, it's an Apple so it's practically useless and if the OP needs something fixed/ replaced they're going to want to replace entire pieces for an absurd amount of money rather than the easy-fixes as seen by Louis Rossman.

@GameFanaticTV - Seriously, don't go for apple. Get and use a pc or pc laptop and get a non-subscription based service where you actually own the copy of the program. Not to mention you can still use it for everything else and game on it depending on the game and specifications. Follow Barnacle Boys links, preferably the one with an actual video card in it if you still intend on playing games or not doing stupidly basic editing cuts. Either way, people think apple is the way to go for these things; they arent. Brand price tag vs actual performance by dollar for Barnacle Boys links; yeah, I'd choose what he suggests.

This grim reality of this post shorted out my eyeballs and triggered the moisture sensors so I had to pay $2000 at a genius bar to replace my entire skull. ):

[Mad Scientist]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von AAAAAAA A TRAIN:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Orion:

This.
Laptop CPU, no dedicated GPU, it's an Apple so it's practically useless and if the OP needs something fixed/ replaced they're going to want to replace entire pieces for an absurd amount of money rather than the easy-fixes as seen by Louis Rossman.

@GameFanaticTV - Seriously, don't go for apple. Get and use a pc or pc laptop and get a non-subscription based service where you actually own the copy of the program. Not to mention you can still use it for everything else and game on it depending on the game and specifications. Follow Barnacle Boys links, preferably the one with an actual video card in it if you still intend on playing games or not doing stupidly basic editing cuts. Either way, people think apple is the way to go for these things; they arent. Brand price tag vs actual performance by dollar for Barnacle Boys links; yeah, I'd choose what he suggests.

This grim reality of this post shorted out my eyeballs and triggered the moisture sensors so I had to pay $2000 at a genius bar to replace my entire skull. ):

Add another $500 - the shoes you walked in with were dirty and deemed defective in need of replacing, so they replaced them with iWalk shoes.

[Blargo]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von AAAAAAA A TRAIN:

This grim reality of this post shorted out my eyeballs and triggered the moisture sensors so I had to pay $2000 at a genius bar to replace my entire skull. ):

You mean your... iBalls.

[Mad Scientist]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Dxpress:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von AAAAAAA A TRAIN:

This grim reality of this post shorted out my eyeballs and triggered the moisture sensors so I had to pay $2000 at a genius bar to replace my entire skull. ):

You mean your... iBalls. :lunar2019coolpig:

Not made of steel unlike the Nukem brand.

[piddlefoot]

Id just say no get a better one, for what you want that ones gunna be slow.

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