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actually, I wouldn’t, and nor would anyone else who hasn’t been living under a rock 😂 The ARM-powered Apple stuff is fantastic for video editing, even my original iPad Pro does a decent job and that’s an almost 6 year old tablet! 😃Has to do on the fly quick video editing stuff, so you’d imagine a £1000 laptop might not be quite up to the job
I remember trying to edit some video footage about 20 years ago, with an original style iMac DV. A whole hour miniDV tape translated to about 12Gb of data. The iMac had a 20Gb hard drive, but with loads of other apps, files etc on it. I think I used up 19.5Gb. Then it came to outputting the whole project..
It is astonishing just how capable computers really are these days. Hence my own decision that I really don't 'need' the power of a MacPro or similar. Those things are capable of proper professional compositing, 3D special FX etc. I think many people get hung up on 'power', without realising that mostly, they will never use their computer to anywhere near its real capabilities. A bit like bikes then...
Has to do on the fly quick video editing stuff, so you’d imagine a £1000 laptop might not be quite up to the job
I had a bit of a surprise last month when I had to do some editing in the hotel room with my creaking and groaning 10 year old 2 core i3 windows PC. Only upgrade has been an SSD.
Found some editing software that actually ran, and ran well!
Useful for anyone who wants to edit on an older/slower laptop. No idea if it runs on a Mac, so not the most usefully bit of info for you guys.
https://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/index.html
Is there any news on running VM Ware virtual machines on M1? I need to run a Red Hat linux machine for some statistical software. I'm running a nine-year old Quad i7 MBP (bought used a couple of years ago) with 16GB and SSD, and it's fast. But I'd like faster and lighter.
I'd also really like a 15" MacBook Air. I don't need Retina as I can't see well at the best of times!
Is there any news on running VM Ware virtual machines on M1?
VMs aren't my thing, but apparently this is a popular subject. You can run Parallels on M1 Macs now, but Google suggests VMware is still some way off. Personally, I cannot understand why you'd ever want to run a different OS, as Macs come with the best OS there is and always has been, but to each their own. I once had to run Windows for some specific bit of software that wasn't available on Mac, and it wasn't a pleasant experience.
Personally, I cannot understand why you’d ever want to run a different OS
You may have answered this one yourself.
I once had to run Windows for some specific bit of software
Although it sounds like VMware are planning to release M1 software that will emulate Windows for ARM. Which sounds a bit silly. People need VMs for the rare software that's not available natively on their Macs. Windows for ARM has probably less app support than M1 Macs and doesn't look likely to gain support rapidly. The only thing VMware for M1 is going to solve is apps that are not on Mac OS (M1 or x86 via Rosetta2) but are on Windows ARM. That's a Venn diagram with very little overlap.
You may have answered this one yourself.
Lol! True. It was a very painful experience that took all day to set up, with numerous attempts to get the Windows build to load properly, as it then needed 'updating' which spannered things, requiring starting all over again. Hateful. Fortunately I only needed it for a short while, then happily deleted it for ever.
Not tried it as don't have an M1 Mac, but as above apparently Parallels works fine (and VMWare are "working on it" but it's a low priority they say). I do use Parallels occasionally on an Intel Mac to use some specific software, never had any problems.