MacBook Neo just fine with 4K video editing and 59 Chrome tabs

Sam Henri Gold last week wrote a rather sweet blog post about the difference between advice from tech reviewers and real-world usage of our devices.

He rejected arguments by reviewers saying that the MacBook Neo is not the right machine for those wanting to do things like video editing, and a new test backs his view …

Gold reminisced about his childhood video editing on a hand-me-down Mac.

He says the same will be true of the MacBook Neo. It might not be the machine reviewers would recommend for video editing, but plenty of people will do it and it will be just fine.

Tyler Stalman already proved this with Final Cut Pro, and Macworld’s Roman Loyola had exactly the same experience with Adobe Premiere Pro. He noted that, yes, the machine will run out of RAM and need to use swap memory – but this doesn’t pose a problem in the slightest. He edited both 1080p and 4K video in Adobe’s professional-grade app.

Amusingly, it was Google’s Chrome browser – a notoriously memory-hungry app – which posed the bigger challenge. But again, this didn’t prove problematic.

I adored Gold’s take, and couldn’t be happier that he has been proven right in such a convincing fashion. Right now, there is a future world-famous cinematographer making his first foray into video editing on a MacBook Neo.