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I ran for 1.5 year on Resolve 12.5 on a 2013 15' MBP and attached to the TB1 ports a Cinema Display , a TB raid with 4SSD's for storing the source files and at the end a TB mini monitor which fed an Color corrected EIZo over SDI. Ran it in sort of clamshell mode so disabled internal monitor hidden away under the desk.
Only edited/graded on ProRes and worked fine if i stayed away from NR or other heavy OFX stuff.
I i needed that i tuned that in slowly (and with patience) , then cached the results and moved on.
Far from ideal but got me started on the Resolve way and was able to do about anything i wanted.
Also if you understand the bottleneck and how to work around them , you can do most of the stuff you want.
Now with the current generations of much faster and more powerfull laptops, you should be able to get work done if you plan your workflow properly.
What i still love from laptop in combination with a nice central DB setup is that you can do some quick scratches, starts, some light stuf, proxy work. Then open the project on you main workstation and do the heavy lifting.
Now even better with the resolve remote render options i can submit a job from the laptop onto my 32 resolve core render VM and deliver from heavy source material with full NR/OFX etc.
Its all about workflow and smart setup of your resources.
Comparing laptops with workstations is useless. Use both for what they are good at.
Only edited/graded on ProRes and worked fine if i stayed away from NR or other heavy OFX stuff.
I i needed that i tuned that in slowly (and with patience) , then cached the results and moved on.
Far from ideal but got me started on the Resolve way and was able to do about anything i wanted.
Also if you understand the bottleneck and how to work around them , you can do most of the stuff you want.
Now with the current generations of much faster and more powerfull laptops, you should be able to get work done if you plan your workflow properly.
What i still love from laptop in combination with a nice central DB setup is that you can do some quick scratches, starts, some light stuf, proxy work. Then open the project on you main workstation and do the heavy lifting.
Now even better with the resolve remote render options i can submit a job from the laptop onto my 32 resolve core render VM and deliver from heavy source material with full NR/OFX etc.
Its all about workflow and smart setup of your resources.
Comparing laptops with workstations is useless. Use both for what they are good at.
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Test Rig : 2xXeon (24c) | UNRAID KVM OSX VM's | 128GB | 5700XT | 40Gbe
Prod Rig : i9-7940X (14c) | OSX 10.15 | 64GB | 2xVega 56 | 40Gbe | Tb3 | V:Eizo | A:5.1RME
Test Rig : 2xXeon (24c) | UNRAID KVM OSX VM's | 128GB | 5700XT | 40Gbe
Prod Rig : i9-7940X (14c) | OSX 10.15 | 64GB | 2xVega 56 | 40Gbe | Tb3 | V:Eizo | A:5.1RME