If you’re purchasing a MacBook, this is an expensive upgrade, but according to most experts, it’s a worthy one. In 2020, Apple upgraded their graphics card to the AMD Radeon Pro 5600M. The graphics card is important because it is the piece of the machine that provides excellent playback for video. We’d recommend choosing at least 2TB of storage so that you’ll have plenty of capacity but not more than you actually need. That said, you want to have enough storage capability on your MacBook Pro to allow it to easily handle everything you’ll need for any given project or workflow. Most of our video editing customers tend to store through external SSD storage. In our opinion, storage is less important than some of the other elements. Fewer than eight cores may cause a bit more “congestion,” which translates to slower speeds and more difficulty managing multiple applications at once. With regard to editing on a MacBook Pro, in other words, a higher-core option allows you to more easily manage your video editing software while simultaneously running other programs. With more lanes, traffic is free to flow more smoothly. As Lizzie Peirce aptly explains, it’s helpful to think of the “core” as “lanes” in your laptop. The MacBook Pro 16” series’ 8-core Intel Core i9 processor is where we’d recommend starting.
