M1 MBA or MBPro - difference in video editing

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jdc wrote:
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Here’s an older piece that addresses throttling:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/...con-magic/

Yep, exactly what I meant. Repeated runs of FCP or benchmarks that are designed to stress the system throttle it.

Again, a few videos a few times a day, meh. 30 videos for hours in a day, MBP all the way.

Depending on workflow, Id prob go with a base MBA for occasional portable editing and then a mini to do all the heavy lifting at my desk.

" it runs at full-bore until the Firestorm cores become too toasty, which seems to take anywhere from 3-ish to 6-ish minutes. Then it backs the Firestorm cores off until they show about 50-percent utilization,"