Hey, my name is Matt Johnson, and if you want to buy an Apple laptop
for 4K video editing in this video, I have three recommendations for you
at three different price points. We're going to cover a budget option,
a best bang for your buck option
and extremely powerful beastly option. They'll handle
literally anything that you throw at it. So cool to save you time. I've linked down in the video description
to the three laptops that I recommend also,
because I respect your time like that. Let's get started with the budget
friendly option. If you want a powerful video
editing laptop that is not going to break the bank, I'm actually going to recommend
that you purchase the M2 MacBook Air with the 512 gigabyte SSD upgrade, 16 gigabytes of RAM and the 67 watt
Usb-C power adapter for $1,619
at the time of making this video. Yes, this is Apple's newest base level
laptop and it doesn't even include a fan. But trust me, this laptop is going to be
fantastic for video editing. Even if you're editing 4k video. To be clear, you do not need to upgrade
the CPU to ten cores or even consider the 13 inch m2 MacBook Pro with this 13 inch m2 MacBook Air,
you are getting all of the performance that you need for 4K video editing
and because this base version includes hardware, encoders and decoders
for the .264 and 8.265 video formats and eight bit and ten bit as well
as process encoders and decoders too. That means that this laptop can playback
and render the video files filmed by many cameras today
significantly faster than laptops that have Intel
and AMD processors. That said, though,
I am sure that you've noticed that I did recommend some upgrades
and here's why. Starting with the most important, the reason that I recommend
that you upgrade to the 512 gigabyte SSD is that the 256 gig SSD is approximately
half the speed of the 512 model. This is going to make a huge difference
when you're editing video. So spending that extra $200 for the upgrade to 512
gigabytes is completely worth it. Next, the reason that I recommend
six gigabytes of RAM is that while you can probably get by with eight gigs,
if you are only video editing, once you start multitasking,
so you've got a web browser open in the background or you're
playing music while you're editing, etc. Having those 16 gigabytes of RAM is going to help
your video editing software stay speedy. Lastly, as far as upgrades
go, spending $20 more for the 67 watt Usb-C power adapter
is going to make charging your laptop significantly faster,
so I totally recommend it. Feel free to skip that though
if you don't want to. Now, at this point,
before we talk about the best bang for your buck laptop option,
I'm sure there are some of you that are already starting to type
in the comments. Matt $1,619 for a laptop is not exactly budget friendly
and I totally agree. I wish this laptop was cheaper
and to help you out as a bonus, I have an even more budget
friendly option for you. So if you want a laptop
that's going to give you very similar video editing performance to this M2 MacBook Air,
but for dramatically less cost, I'm going to actually recommend
that you purchase the M1 MacBook Air, specifically a refurbished base model
with a 16 gigabyte RAM upgrade. At the time of making this video,
you can buy a used M1 MacBook Air from Apple for as cheap as 1019 bucks. And heck, if you promise not to multitask
and you only edit videos, you're probably fine with a model
with eight gigabytes of RAM and you can get that for as cheap
as 850 bucks. That's almost half the cost of the M2
MacBook Air. To be clear, the M2 MacBook
Air is lighter, it's thinner, It has a newer screen. But if you want to save some money, the M1 Mac Air is still great for video
editing. Anyways, we got to move on and talk about
the best bang for your buck option when it comes to MacBooks,
the best bang for your buck. MacBooks that are recommended for you
is the MacBook Pro 14 inch with the 12 core M2 Pro CPU
and one terabyte SSD upgrade, which comes in at roughly 20 $500
at the time of making this video. What makes this 14 inch M2 Pro MacBook
so good and the best bang for your buck? Well, the 12 core CPU on M2 Pro
not only gives you the same hardware, encoders and decoders
as the MacBook Air, but it also gives you four more CPU course
when you select the $300 CPU upgrade, which I think is totally worth it
for dramatically faster performance. The second upgrade that I recommend
for the best bang for your Buck MacBook is that you need to upgrade the SSD
from 512 gigabytes to one terabyte. The reason for this is that just like the base level
M2 MacBook Air that only came with 256 gigs of memory that Apple was making
approximately 50% slower. This is also true of the base 512
gigabyte SSD in the M2 Pro MacBook. So if you want the absolute fastest
SSD speeds, which you definitely do for video editing,
you need to pony up the extra $200
for the one terabyte SSD on this laptop. Lastly, for memory,
because I'm sure that you're wondering, I would stick with 16 gigabytes of RAM
because this is unified memory that is shared between the CPU and GPU
and the laptop is so optimized this amount of RAM is going to be
significantly more efficient than regular memory
that you may be used to. And even if you're a heavy multitasker,
I do not think you're going to see any major difference. If you switch from 16 gigabytes
to 32 gigabytes of memory. So I'd save your money. Congratulations. You have now spent 2500 bucks and you have a laptop
that is going to blow your mind, hopefully
without completely destroying your wallet. But we're not done yet. We have one more laptop to talk about,
and this laptop is an absolute beast that is going to give you
a crazy amount of power. So if you at at six,
K, eight, K, 12 k, raw video, etc., which to be clear,
the cheaper M2 Mac Pro can handle. But if you want to edit that resolution
quality of footage as fast as possible
and you have a larger budget. This final laptop is the laptop
that I would recommend for you. First, I know you're
probably thinking about is easy. I want the best laptop. I just go to Apple's website and max out
the entire machine for over $6,000. Right? Well, no, actually. And you can actually think of this
third laptop as another best bang for your buck option that's going
to give you even more power while also not getting anywhere close to the absolute
maxed out price of this laptop. All right. For option number three, I'm going to recommend that you upgrade
to the 16 inch MacBook Pro. Yes, We are finally going up in size. And this is also the point where I'm going
to recommend that you upgrade to the M2 max processor, specifically the option
with the 12 core CPU and 30 core CPU. This is the entry level M2 max model
and it has one significant change over the M2 Pro that is going to make
a huge difference for video editing. We got to talk hardware,
decoders and encoders again. But don't worry, I promise you
this is the last time. Remember how I said that the M2 Pro has dedicated hardware,
video encoders and decoders for aged 2648265 and Prores video formats
to make editing and rendering super fast. Well, the M2 max takes everything
to another level because it includes two of them. Yes, you get twice as many hardware
encoders and decoders with this chip, which is going to skyrocket your editing
and rendering speeds even more over the blazing fast M2 pro. In addition, because you are choosing
the 16 inch model of the MacBook Pro, you're also going to deal with less
throttling of the CPU than if you choose to put the M2 max
into the 14 inch chassis. Yet again, just like my last MacBook
Video Editing Buyer's Guide video, I want to give Max your
you have over at Max Tech a big thank you for discovering this difference
between the two laptop bodies. His videos about these laptops are awesome
and I highly recommend checking them out a link to his channel down below. Now that we've covered the CPU,
let's talk memory by default. If you select the M2 max, apple is going to require you
to also select 32 gigabytes of RAM. And I think that this is plenty. Remember this is unified memory
that is shared between the CPU and GPU. And even if you are very heavily
multitasking, you should be fine for video
editing, even higher resolution footage. So I would save your $400
and not upgrade to 64 gigabytes of RAM. And don't get that eye
watering 96 gigabytes of RAM either. It's cool. Don't get me wrong. It's
very cool. But trust me,
you do not need it for video editing. You don't need it. You don't. Okay. Lastly, for storage,
just like with the M2 Pro and the M2 air, I would avoid that 512 gigabyte SSD
like the plague and upgrade to at least a one terabyte SSD
or more if you can afford it. Remember that
if you are editing 6k8k or raw files, having some extra space on your hard
drive to store those files is always nice. So here's
where I would spend some extra money. If you have it. With that, you are now looking
at an absolute beast of a laptop. Is capable of editing pretty much
any resolution or format of footage that you want to throw at it
for about 300 bucks. And there you have it, three Apple laptops that are recommended
at three different price points. Regardless of your budget, you should be able to find an option
that works well for you. But if I had to pick the 14 inch MacBook
Pro with the upgraded M2 Pro CPU and one terabyte SSD upgrade
is such a killer option for that price and definitely the best bang
for your buck. I will link to all these laptops down
below if you want to check them out and I will also link down
below to my edit videos like a pro guide. If you're a video editor,
which I assume that you are considering this video about video
editing laptops, this guide is going to show you some of the biggest things that took me
years to learn as a video editor and are going to skyrocket your video
editing capabilities. This guide is completely free
and you can download it and link down in the video description. Thanks so much for watching
and have a great day.
