MacBook Pro or Air recommendations

[RDB85]

My brother is looking to buy a Mac for Uni. He is thinking of buying either a Pro or an Air but is unsure of what specs would be best.

He will mainly use it for Video and Photo Editing.

 

[radderfire]

Are the videos 4K and how long will they be?

A MacBook Air can do medium intensity video editing, if you bump up the RAM. If you are doing long 4K videos it's best to go for a MacBook Pro with bumped up RAM and maybe chip. In either case you probably want to bump up the storage.

 

[Feek]

A MacBook Air can do medium intensity video editing, if you bump up the RAM. If you are doing long 4K videos it's best to go for a MacBook Pro with bumped up RAM and maybe chip. In either case you probably want to bump up the storage.

A 16GB M1 MacBook Air can do 4K video editing.

Remember all those videos on YouTube when the M1 MBA was released showing editing 4K video streams? They can still do it!

So a Pro device definitely isn't needed for video editing.

It's probably more about form factor and weight than anything else now.

 

[radderfire]

So a Pro device definitely isn't needed for video editing.

A Pro device with a high spec chip will be significantly faster/better though, and a better choice if they are editing/producing long 4K videos. As ever, it's whether the extra cost is worth it for them.