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How many GB do you have in the computer you are typing on? I would say the 4gb limit was reached about 4 to 5 years ago. Remember the pro is Apples idea of a

How many GB do you have in the computer you are typing on? I would say the 4gb limit was reached about 4 to 5 years ago. Remember the pro is Apples idea of a replacement for a laptop and now it has a laptop class processor, why shouldn't it have laptop class ram?

tempoponet 5y ago
To illustrate a real-world example of a "pro" use-case: these devices are absolute monsters at processing video. How much memory do you need to edit 4k video? The answer is likely "how much have you got?"
- OldGoodNewBad 5y ago
  That’s the wrong answer and always has been. You don’t need to store your entire video in RAM to edit it, and never have. I’m sure you can find many descriptions of how it actually works without having to guess but 4K video processing and editing has been done for decades and decades now on computers with barely Apple Watch grade CPUs. George Lucas was using an EditDroid to edit 35mm film through the generation of edit lists on a computer controlling a Laserdisc player. The computer had very limited RAM, IIRC 16MB which was extravagant at the time. The editing process for the average YouTube ‘content creator’ may consist of previewing a bunch of effects and transitions and animated floating text in real time until they think they’ve hit the right viral load but in practice professional editing is still done by the composition of edit lists from preview material.
  - justinclift 5y ago
    > 4K video processing ... decades and decades Hmmm... "decades and decades" seems like a stretch for digital. ;) Are you meaning using things like Avid Composer and similar? eg software used for hollywood films and similar Asking because I used to spec out then put those systems together for places. They were _very_ much pushing the envelope of performance (cpu, ram, disk io), even before networked editing systems became common.

tempoponet 5y ago

To illustrate a real-world example of a "pro" use-case: these devices are absolute monsters at processing video. How much memory do you need to edit 4k video? The answer is likely "how much have you got?"

OldGoodNewBad 5y ago
That’s the wrong answer and always has been. You don’t need to store your entire video in RAM to edit it, and never have. I’m sure you can find many descriptions of how it actually works without having to guess but 4K video processing and editing has been done for decades and decades now on computers with barely Apple Watch grade CPUs. George Lucas was using an EditDroid to edit 35mm film through the generation of edit lists on a computer controlling a Laserdisc player. The computer had very limited RAM, IIRC 16MB which was extravagant at the time. The editing process for the average YouTube ‘content creator’ may consist of previewing a bunch of effects and transitions and animated floating text in real time until they think they’ve hit the right viral load but in practice professional editing is still done by the composition of edit lists from preview material.
- justinclift 5y ago
  > 4K video processing ... decades and decades Hmmm... "decades and decades" seems like a stretch for digital. ;) Are you meaning using things like Avid Composer and similar? eg software used for hollywood films and similar Asking because I used to spec out then put those systems together for places. They were _very_ much pushing the envelope of performance (cpu, ram, disk io), even before networked editing systems became common.