i need to buy a laptop since when you get laid off you have to give yours back. for basic video editing (no motion graphics) and streaming using re-stream, would an M4 macbook air do the job? or would a macbook pro with M4 pro be significantly more efficient/better? - ThreadSky

michaelburns.bsky.social • 35 days ago

i need to buy a laptop since when you get laid off you have to give yours back.

for basic video editing (no motion graphics) and streaming using re-stream, would an M4 macbook air do the job?

or would a macbook pro with M4 pro be significantly more efficient/better?

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crp2103.bsky.social•35 days ago

generally, you want to consider the following:

1. active cooling (fans) will help for sustained workloads, such as the final rendering phase. as such, the pro will be much better than the air.

crp2103.bsky.social•35 days ago

2. you want to get as many "GPU cores" in the processor as possible. the more cores, the faster your renders will complete. as such, the M4 Pro or M4 Max could be useful to you, though it will increase your spend.

fiddlefred.bsky.social•35 days ago

Everything is computer

michaelburns.bsky.social•35 days ago

all of it!

lostscot.bsky.social•35 days ago

I'd go for a Pro because of the active cooling. My regular M1 Pro is still a rendering beast, so you probably don't even need to go for a top end new one.

I know someone who could get you a staff discount too (about 20% IIRC)!

michaelburns.bsky.social•35 days ago

this is helpful - i think the cooling thing is the crucial factor i wasn't thinking about.

caseylawrence.net•35 days ago

What is your budget/timeline. You might be better off getting a refurbished m2 MacBook Pro with a better chip if you have a little time to look

michaelburns.bsky.social•35 days ago

i have a little, not a lot, of time.

indospot.bsky.social•35 days ago

Macbook Air is quite powerful already and I think it would be good enough overall, at least if you get the model with a slightly upgraded GPU, though someone has mentioned cooling and that's a good point. Though you can get the MacBook Pro with the same M4 processor and with active cooling,

indospot.bsky.social•35 days ago

You don't necessarily need the M4 Pro, imo. I do all my editing and streaming on an M4 Mac Mini.

timmckenna.design•35 days ago

I would go Macbook Pro with M4 Pro, my opinion.

michaelburns.bsky.social•35 days ago

so basically cheapest macbook pro with m4 preferable to the "nicest" macbook air m4?

timmckenna.design•35 days ago

IMHO yes

bluesterb.bsky.social•35 days ago

Hey, just watched the last Wisecrack video. Sorry to hear about that, was a big fan of the channel. Thanks to you and everyone who worked on it. Hopefully all of you find good new things.

theshanemc.bsky.social•35 days ago

I don’t know the answer to your question. But I was always told “buy right, buy once”.

So, if in doubt I’d suggest spending a little more, going a little better and having no regrets.

Maybe I’m selfish, but I want to see you making more content, so I want it to be an easier process for you.

pghnerfherder.bsky.social•35 days ago

The brand new MacBook Airs will absolutely handle that workload. They’re really amazing. Just bump up the RAM. I bought a 14” MBPro just last year with the M3 and it’s overkill.

laroxinia.bsky.social•35 days ago

I used my tech knowledge to prompt an LLM into crawling Reddit and the internet to help you with info. Protip: read the Reddit threads in the sources - it contains a lot of real end user experiences. Happy to answer any questions you might have! https://www.perplexity.ai/search/for-editing-videos-what-kind-o-pqY9dlBEQuyLaYbimzyNbw

laroxinia.bsky.social•33 days ago

(I don't know what your opinion is on using this kind of tool for this purpose, but Perplexity gives the option of searching through Reddit, and I find that real user experiences are an essential complement to raw benchmarking. Especially as Apple maintains a separate ecosystem, and has some very...

laroxinia.bsky.social•33 days ago

unique design choices, leading to a product so different from other laptops that reading user experiences becomes needed to make a choice. Perplexity summarizes them OK, but it also indexes Reddit itself well and provides source links, giving you a framework of info to start and then deeper detail.)

laroxinia.bsky.social•33 days ago

Furthermore, using a search engine with some keywords and "inurl:reddit.com" as an operator should give you an alright index of experiences too.

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