Ah, ok. I assumed when you run a speedtest you run it for the media you use. Running it for the internal mac ssd if you dont use it it of little use inthis case
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Yes so getting fast storage helps , but will not give you smooth red editing experience on a macbook. Sorry. Not happening. Your option is to transcode,or get bigger hardware. Or external gpu solutions etc, but red debayering is not benefitting that much from gpu and still needs cpu horsepower, so mileage will vary.
I worked for at least 2 years running resolve of a top specced macbook pro, plus a double raid zero of a few ssds each over thunderbolt on it for cache and for media (transcoded to prores 444 for red stuff and the rest 422hq) and worked great. You still need to do lots of caching if more then a couple of grading nodes (depending type) but its workable if all you storage is ssd based.
I moved to much biggermachine when i started working with multilayer exr files for vfx etc. The is a limit what you can push out of a macbook
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