Youre problem is your cpu and gpu at this problem This question is for those of you who have replaced HDDs in their ageing laptop with SSDs- how can such an upgrade do for a piece of junk like mine?Īnd, using tricks like proxy video editing (downsampling to 480/360p low-bitrate to edit) and performing all of the aforementioned upgrades, will I ever be able to use this thing for any video editing? At least for the brief duration where I'll be travelling?

This got me thinking- the OS upgrade is free, and the 8GB RAM upgrade is cheap enough, and since SSD prices have been dropping lately, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to get a new 240GB SSD for the boot drive and use my current HDD for mass storage. However, oddly enough, despite the CPU area heating up considerably and reporting very high usage even while web browsing, I don't think I've ever seen it hit 100%, and I know the SSHD is a piece of junk. It can't edit 1080p video and I usually have to downscale all the way to 960x540 for a smooth edit, render times are obscenely long, and while it used to be able to play Skyrim at 480p at its lowest settings through Bootcamp, it can barely manage 7FPS now, indicating that the GPU isn't doing too well. Storage: Seagate 500GB SSHD (has failed multiple times and takes a few minutes to boot to finder. GPU: Nvidia GeForce 9400M (256MB VRAM, has weakened over the years) RAM: 4GB Hynix DDR3 1067 MHz (can be upgraded to 8)

For the last six years, I've been working with a 2009 MacBook Pro. I've recently been considering buying a new laptop for video editing on the go, but as of now, I don't have enough to afford anything decent, and I might as well make do with what I do have until I can afford something better, like the Dell Inspiron 7559.

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