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Video editors and music producers are using far more ram and storage than virtually any programmer out there, and loads of them are traveling with their work an
by grapeskin 5y ago
Video editors and music producers are using far more ram and storage than virtually any programmer out there, and loads of them are traveling with their work and draining batteries faster than anyone else.
Asking them whether a laptop’s hardware is good is like asking a power lifter whether a gym has good equipment.
- timc3 5y agoNot a lot of music producers do use that much RAM (speaking as someone that has run multi-machine music making setup before). Its only the large sample libraries that do and you need multiple instances running to really eat it up. All our devs need than my current music making setup, and I am thinking of going to 128Gb because I do dev work around video.
- rfoo 5y agoThe point is M1 is extremely fast at video editing because it has DSAs designed for these workloads. So using them as a general purpose workload proxy is just bad.
- ungamedplayer 5y agoThe powerlifter only cares about the squat rack. They don't give a hoot about your leg press machine. Very good analogy.
- matwood 5y ago> only cares about the squat rack This is all anyone should care about, but I digress...
- oblio 5y agoDoes music actually require that much RAM? How big is an uncompressed music stream? Bigger than 1 or several VMs running at the same time, a Java IDE, a database browser, etc.?
- madisp 5y agosound samples are often loaded into RAM and can easily cross into 10+GB