Laptops to run Davinci Resolve?

Video and Photo Editing
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Thank you ParmoPaul.:+1:

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Thanks JockyB.

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Because BT is used for headset profile, normal audio and Kb&M. There are better methods than BT for file transfers.

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Thanks PingS. I guess I’ll need to spend what it takes but tbh trying to keep my costs down to a degree, partic as only quite recently bought the Mini4Pro Fly More, a cheap micro? drone just to practice flying in atti mode, and incurred some recent training costs. Hope that gives a bit more of a steer.

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Thanks again

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Thanks Kirky.

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There’s a story behind the username! My job is marketing, and I wrote a case study with the most tenuous links to a Bond film - the company concerned manufactured the underside of the chairs in Die another Day using my company’s software. I published the case study on the same day the film was released, also managing to get permission to use stills from the movie, and got global coverage in my industry. A couple of years later I happened to meet one of our competitors - when I gave my name he said ‘What, THE Martin Bailey?’. Seemed like a good username. I also write books, but there’s another Martin Bailey who’s an expert on Van Gogh who publishes books as well - he always seems to ‘out-PR’ me!

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Also, in regards to the ‘Windows versus Apple’ debate:

I’ve been a Windows user literally since Window 3.0! I do have an iPad and iPhone, but have too much software on Windows architecture to move.

Give the price on that Mac Mini, and assuming the statements are true regarding the M4 performance over Windows (as I’ve never checked, and have no opinion either way), if your main focus for this PC is for video editing then the Mac Mini is probably the way to go. You’d have to factor in another (larger) drive, of course, but it’s still pretty cheap.

My Windows PC was around £1800 about 7 years ago - just thinking of replacing it now, as the processor was one iteration behind the ones that can run with Windows 11. (Yes, I know I can still install it using Rufus or similar - not got around to doing it, and debating whether to just bite the bullet and upgrade). Now that I’m rendering all 4K content it’s showing its age a bit. Adobe Premiere is a little on the choppy side during playback.

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Thanks so much again for the reply Martin. Nice Bond story behind your username too. You obviously can’t let your Van Gogh-related namesake ‘out-PR’ you. In the same Bond vein, presumably “THE name’s Bailey, Martin Bailey” -?

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This post was for the M3 chip back in 2023, you can only imagine what the current M4 chip can do now:

This is crazy:

Edit up to 12 streams of 4K video concurrently

And that was for the M3 chip :flushed:

Imagine how much you’d need to spend on a Windows PC to do that? 4x as much might be an underestimate :slight_smile:

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One ‘THE’ is enough, me thinks :rofl:

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Hi Gerry - I run both MS Windows and Apple Mac. Your spec is clearly a MS Windows laptop. I run DaVinci Resolve on a 2.8G laptop with 8G of memory. 11th Gen i7 Win 11 Home. I find it renders at about 2-3x video rate so would do 2-3 hours of video in an hour. I am using the free version and I find it uses about 50% of available GPU and as near 100% of CPU as it can. You can pick up a new laptop with this spec for well below £500 when the Apple equivalent would be well over £1000.
If this is not fast enough for you, I suggest taking a look at Power Director - I have found it faster than DaVinci Resolve on the same hardware (and it runs on Apple - not trying to cause an argument!). It is not free - only free to try out. Given how much you are saving vs Apple silicon, it may be easy to justify…

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This has been discussed at length, before : Advice please - cost effective computer solution for editing 4k footage in DaVinci Resolve

Plenty to read, including the solution that @AlbionDrones came up with.

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If I only needed a computer for editing videos, then I’d be inclined to agree. At that price, it’s an absolute steal. As I said, unfortunately I have too many apps in the Windows camp (including the company I work for), so Mac for me isn’t an option.

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Whoops, sorry for any confusion, I was replying to @GerryA

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Definitely, just the one ‘the’. :blush:

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Many thanks Speedysmart. That’s brilliant to know & hear.

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Thank you OzoneVibe. Very helpful.

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Which aint gonna run DR

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Thanks Chris.

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