![]() ![]() It took the editor a total of 40 minutes and 11 seconds on the workstation (his everyday machine) versus 53 minutes and 52 seconds on the craigslist laptop. Interestingly, the overall amount of time that it took the editor to cut the same projects on both machines (not including setup, and export) was relatively the same. Optimizing the performance of the computer, and transcoding the footage for playback on the Craigslist’s laptop were taken into account with the overall time it took to edit, and with that disadvantage counted against it, the laptop took more than twice as long as it took the workstation to edit and finish the project: Workstation, 47 minutes and 32 seconds / Laptop, 1 hour 48 minutes and 50 seconds. The parameters they tested were time to open (11s to 26s), time to import (2s to 4s), footage playback, crashes (which occurred more on the workstation), finishing, and final output. The essence of this test isn’t COULD but IF that cheap laptop could be configured and optimized to be able to cut the same project from the beefier desktop machine in about the same time. ![]() Clearly, it’s faster, newer, and more powerful, but does all of that actually matter while editing? Yes, it does.īut maybe in this race, it’s the editor behind the machine taking a rest while the focused editor working on this crummy $200 ThinkPad speeds through it? Everyone loves a good underdog story, so let’s see who wins in this match-up! Just like the hare, the $5K workstation has the edge in almost every way imaginable. Can an old, used laptop that you bought off of Craigslist for $200 get to the finish line faster than a $5,000 video editing workstation PC? It’s a modern-day fable analogous to ‘The Tortoise and The Hare’. ![]()
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