{"id":1208,"date":"2025-10-03T10:19:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T14:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/librarymedialabs\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2025-10-03T10:19:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T14:19:55","slug":"what-laptop-should-i-buy-for-video-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/librarymedialabs\/what-laptop-should-i-buy-for-video-editing\/","title":{"rendered":"What laptop should I buy for Video Editing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most frequent questions I get, next to what camera to buy (I&#8217;ll tackle that in a different post).  As always I don&#8217;t recommend dropping a bundle until AFTER you&#8217;ve been doing it long enough to know what specs you actually need and which features are just going to cost you more but get you little to nothing.  Here is a quick summary of the minimum spec you should be aiming for when it comes to a machine for editing as of this writing (Fall 2025)<\/p>\n<p>CPU: 12-16 core and a modern architecture (eg Apple M Series, Intel Core Ultra etc)<br \/>\nGPU: RTX 40 and newer (or integrated on Apple Silicon). RTX-50 better.<br \/>\nRAM: Start at 32 GB. Always buy more if you can afford it<br \/>\nStorage: The faster the better. 1 TB is a good baseline<br \/>\nDisplay: As much of the DCI-P3 as you can get. 100% is increasingly the norm<br \/>\nPorts: Thunderbolt \/ USB-C 4.0, HDMI 2.1 (4K60+)<br \/>\nThermal Performance: Look for a machine that will not start throttling you over lengthy sessions<\/p>\n<p>For more info I recommend RedShark, here is a link to an article on the topic. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redsharknews.com\/best-laptops-video-editing-2025?utm_source=RedShark+Media&amp;utm_campaign=e86a86f756-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_04_05_10_15_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-cbaba018b4-468364500\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RedShark Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most frequent questions I get, next to what camera to buy (I&#8217;ll tackle that in a different post). As always I don&#8217;t recommend dropping a bundle until AFTER you&#8217;ve been doing it long enough to know what specs you actually need and which features are just going to cost you more but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/librarymedialabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/librarymedialabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/librarymedialabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/librarymedialabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/librarymedialabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/librarymedialabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1209,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/librarymedialabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/librarymedialabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/librarymedialabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/librarymedialabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}