Editing 12bit 8K RAW Video on an 8GB MacBook M1 AIR

Seems ridiculous. But editing 8K RAW on this computer with Resolve Studio 17 is fine - the 8K RAW files play easily on the timeline - no need for proxies. And manipulation of color curves etc. goes without incident. Resolve recognizes the metadata of the Canon R5 RAW clips, and Resolve Color Management produces a nice-looking REC709 image to start with. There is one constraint: you cannot render an 8K video using HEVC or H264 with hardware acceleration. Just will not do it. Rendering to ProRes HQ 422 in 8K is no problem, although it is not fast - 40 minutes for a 4:30 minute 8K video. Rendering 8K in H264 without hardware acceleration is very slow - 49 minutes for a 2 minute video.

This 8K video was produced on the 8GB MacBook AIR (M1 of course):

So basically another M1 fan boy post, which will lead to more people buying, just to then complain in this forum how slow it is and then have to learn its GPU performance is at best 1/5th of a laptop 3080.

So basically another M1 fan boy post, which will lead to more people buying, just to then complain in this forum how slow it is and then have to learn its GPU performance is at best 1/5th of a laptop 3080.

No, I just reported the facts. Never said it was faster or slower than anything else. Is your post just another defensive attempt to feel good from someone who paid a lot more for an expensive heavy machine that is hardly portable? The AIR is less than 3 pounds. I guess you don't get around much .

I have big boy machines too.

Your 12K source in 8K timeline will be during playback decoded at eg 2K, so this is why it all works fine.
When you start exporting at full debayer and quality an 8K master then check if you have realtime export

It still doesn't change fact that you can do some work even with 12K source, which is great.
It will work similarly well on any laptop, specially one with good GPU. Apple unified memory and new design has its advantages as well.