<div style="font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:12.0pt; line-height:1.3; color:#1F497D"><!-- ##### NINE BODY BEGIN ##### --><div>I would say that you should use at least the i7 with 16gb RAM. <br><br>My buddy does video editing with an i7 and 8gb and it's not enough. <br></div><div><br></div><div id="signature-x" style="-webkit-user-select:none; font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:12.0pt; color:#1F497D" class = "signature_editor">Regards,<br><br>Jason<br></div><!-- ##### NINE BODY END ##### --></div><div class="quoted_output_body"><div id="quoted_header" class="quoted_header_editor" style="clear:both;"><hr style="border:none; height:1px; color:#E1E1E1; background-color:#E1E1E1;"/><div style="border:none; padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>From:</b> David Schwartz <newsletters@thetoolwiz.com><br><b>Sent:</b> Nov 30, 2017 11:17 AM<br><b>To:</b> Main PLUG discussion list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: OT: Any Mac Geniuses on the List who can advise on a Mac for Christmas?<br></span></div></div><br type='attribution'><div id="quoted_body" class="quoted_body_editor"><div>
<p>Generally speaking, the more RAM the better.</p>
<p>Also, video editing is going to benefit from more RAM and SSD no matter what.</p>
<p>But if you had to make a choice between more RAM and an SSD, go with the SSD because the transfer rates to/from disk will make a far bigger difference in overall performance most of the time.</p>
<p>Not having enough RAM causes the OS to spill-over into virtual memory, which spools it to the disk. So the faster speeds that SSD offers effectively diminishes the effects of less RAM.</p>
<p>The line is becoming heavily blurred between RAM, disk cache, and disk storage. Over time, the cache and disk speed will become so well-tuned that it will just look like a single huge chunk of static RAM.</p>
<p>Depending on the software she’s using, it might also take advantage of multi-core CPUs, hyper-threading in the CPU, 64-bits, and any assistance the GPU can offer.</p>
<p>-David Schwartz</p>
<blockquote><p>On Nov 30, 2017, at 8:16 AM, Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:</p>
<p>Thanks for all the great input – especially the refurbished Mac stores!</p>
<p>A more technical question – am I correct is assuming she needs 16 GB of RAM and a quad core i7 processor to edit 60 minutes of video footage? Or, is this over kill?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Mark</p></blockquote>
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