Mon Jul 27, 2020 11:48 pm
You can keep your current Macbook Pro for all other work, and get an MSI laptop for $1100 with 32 GB RAM, and a 6 GB GTX nvidia card (it should run 4k BRAW fine, even with grading and plugins on top). I bet it'd be faster for Resolve than your current Macbook just because you get an nvidia card that Resolve generally prefers to get accelerated fully. The MSI laptop I saw earlier used an Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz that has a passmark for 11500 points, which while it's not really fast compared to newer CPUs, it's much higher than my 8000 points CPU that I use without problems with BRAW 4k. And especially the new BRAW version, in the new SDK currently in beta, decodes faster. So I don't think you need to spend much to have good performance with BRAW 4k.
And if you can spend a bit more, consider the Lenovo Legion 7 laptop, for $1700, because it comes with a faster CPU, 8 GB RTX 2070-Qmax, 32 GB RAM, and most improtantly: 100% SRGB screen color gamut (most cheaper laptops barely touch 50%).
So if something like that does the job and helps you save money in this economy, you should consider this solution, even if it's not a sexy one.
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