Hi all,
I have a 2.5 year old Acer E-15 laptop that I use to edit videos.
Specs:
8 GB DDR4 Ram
Intel i5 6200U
Dedicated graphics card (Geforce 940MX) and an Intel 520 Graphics card
245 GB SSD and 500 GB SATA
For simple videos that required cutting, speed ramping, music, text, it would work fine. However, I had to stop editing a video yesterday because it was extremely laggy to the point I couldn't even see what I was doing. The quality of the video was higher than what I usually edit (it was 4k) so that probably has something to do with it, but in the past even those videos didn't lag to that degree.
I tried lowering the preview quality (the lowest it can go is 1/4, not sure why it can't go lower) and cleared as much storage as I possibly could off the harddrives.
Is it simply just time to upgrade to a better laptop?
Thanks!