Kinda my thought exactly. Although most any video editing software uses proxy files, so you don't have to load in the original hi-res footage. It's just that..

Kinda my thought exactly. Although most any video editing software uses proxy files, so you don't have to load in the original hi-res footage. It's just that... swapping data in and out of ram is far slower than clock speed, right? So if the bottleneck is RAM, would it make sense to get the most RAM? (ie: Intel Mac)