Avoid PC world at any costs
130 MB saved, now at 4GB free…
There must be something taking up the space, when I ever get that low I consider refreshing by resetting back to new, but making sure I have backed up all important files first
Something worth considering if using resolve and cutting h264 footage directly…
Some Intel chips have a feature called ‘quick sync’ which can hardware accelerate h264 decoding, both editing in resolve and exporting. It’s nice to have and works well.
It’s similar to how Apple silicon has ProRes encoder/ decoders, which make them efficient when using those formats.
Also, as someone who uses high end Mac and windows systems daily, take Apple Silicon benchmarks with a pinch of salt (or any benchmark for that matter).
Apple silicon is generally more power efficient but they are a few generations away from desktop systems, especially in graphical performance. You also lose out on being able to add more storage or memory.
For general use I’d opt for Mac, but if speed is important there’s nothing like an i9 and RTX4090 or 40 series workstation card. Blows everything else away.
I have a self build i7 PC, I have a M2 (2tb Samsung SSD) as my C drive, where I keep my programmes on. My data is held on a 4tb Raid in the PC (2 X Samsung 4tb) I’m currently using the free version of Resolve 18.6. I am looking to upgrade to the stidio version which will unlock the GPU (graphics card) for rendering The GPU is capable of much more calculations resulting in much faster rendering. The main issue against a Mac for me is that everything is locked down both physically and in hardware, I do have a MacBook Pro and I run Mac Monteray in a Virtual Machine on my PC. It may be worhwhile wiping your laptop C drive in the meantime which will probably speed up your rendering until you can upgrade. Feel free to ask any more questions.
Thanks all for the help, Lee’s PC is now running better than before, it is playing the rendered 4K 60FPS in media player without issue, and the play option in Resolve is much better than it was - still a little laggy, but I can live with that…
We have 4.2GB free on the OS C Drive now, and the D data drive has 484GB free form the 1TB, and 334GB of that is Skye footage that I can move onto the Exernal HDD once it has all been processed - alth9ugh that will fill the 2TB external HDD, so anoher external HDD will be needed for next years footage.
I think I can live with using Lee’s computer for editing for a few more months now, which will allow me to pay off the BNPL on the AIR and AVATA before then looking at buying a second laptop for editing, probably sometime around Easter next year with any luck…
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That configuration should be more than adequate even with the resource hungry DaVinci. That laptop needs sorting.
That said you could consider a Mini PC in conjunction with your TV. The Geekom AS6 has good reviews for graphics work though at £700 is top end for a mini. The Geekom Mini IT 13 at the same price is a high spec but not as good for graphics apparently.
Amongst all you DaVinci fans can I put in a word for the simple to use but now surprisingly effective Microsoft ClipChamp.
if you want help on putting an SSD in that laptop and repartitioning maybe let me know
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Thanks Rob,m will have to see how much it will cost, havent got a clue when it comes to doing upgrades really, just about managed to add extra RAM and replace the power lead - following YT video’s as I did it 
I agree they will try and sell you something totally different and useless. Seek out proper advice, I used PCS for both mine and the Mrs’s laptops. Never had any problems and got exactly what I wanted
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most (~90%) of the SSD’s I’ve used are crucial drives as they come with some really easy to use drive copy software (Acronis) free with the drive
there are other ways to clone a drive, but acronis is very easy and it’s freely provided with crucial drives, hence I like to use them if I’ve been asked to look at improving performance of an older laptop / pc for someone
they are available on amazon, next day and also from lots of other places too (scan computers (bolton)) etc etc
(I’ve used a few in the past to clone drives such as clonezilla, but acronis is idiotproof and free with the drives)
I am surprised that you put 24gb of ram in that laptop (I did wonder when you once told me as it seemed a lot)
looking at the manual, the maximum ram (from dell) is 16gb
I know it’s a 10th generation intel processor but if I know which one, I’ll check it’s specs as I suspect it won’t be able to address (use) anything over 16gb
(I’ll pop back later, I’ve got a few jobs to do )
We added a 16GB RAM to the original 8GB and it improved vastly, and seemed to be the max we could add… It is registering and using it fine, so I dont think thats the issue, it was much laggier and slower vefoe we added it…
Ram modules should be in equal pairs or just singular
And if different speeds the pc will run at the slower one
These are the recommended configurations
Nonetheless it is running, and a lot faster than it was before the memory was added… and with it fitted everything runs faster - sand it is showing on the system tab…
do you know what the processor?
I am guessing it is an i5 1035
which would indicate that up to 64gb is supported by that processor so you are good
it’s not a bad processor looking at its single and multi thread performance
if it were me… I would not be changing it for a while as I don’t believe you will get much benefit… yes a newer one will be faster to process things but cost per time benefit is not there at the moment in my opinion… yes if time is money, no if time is a hobby and you can do other things while it is busy doing hard core processing
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-1035G1+%40+1.00GHz&id=3558
sorry added a bit more above
nope… yes it is better if they are matched pairs or a single memory stick… provided they are the same speed rating they will be fine… another 16gb will help as it will then be matched but it’s not going to double or half anything (imo. … others may vary)
SSD would be a benefit though if it is not an SSD and a traditional spinning disk HDD… that will make it boot and load things faster and to some extent process things if they are huge (video files)