I use computers a lot, but I'm not very knowledgeable about hardware specs. I'm trying to decide if it's worth buying a new laptop to speed up my video and photo processing time.
I bought a cheap (<$400) laptop about a year and a half ago (AMD A8 2.3GHz, 6GB Ram, 1TB HD, no SSD). Right now it takes about 30-45 minutes to render a 5 minute match video, depending on how much I'm using the computer while it's rendering. If I were to buy a new laptop in the $700-$800ish range (no idea of specs, just throwing that price range out there), would it really save me a lot of time processing photos and videos?
Note, my current laptop struggles to preview videos in the editor in anything higher than the lowest quality setting (low res draft). Would a better laptop allow to preview videos in higher res to better determine where to cut the vids?
I bought a cheap (<$400) laptop about a year and a half ago (AMD A8 2.3GHz, 6GB Ram, 1TB HD, no SSD). Right now it takes about 30-45 minutes to render a 5 minute match video, depending on how much I'm using the computer while it's rendering. If I were to buy a new laptop in the $700-$800ish range (no idea of specs, just throwing that price range out there), would it really save me a lot of time processing photos and videos?
Note, my current laptop struggles to preview videos in the editor in anything higher than the lowest quality setting (low res draft). Would a better laptop allow to preview videos in higher res to better determine where to cut the vids?
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