Video editing with iMovie?

[Murl]

Has anyone tried this with the 4gb version on the 13". What will slow these things down, or what can you not do? Streaming HD video? Does anyone seeing the memory being an issue in the future?

 

[Bluemeanie1976]

I've done it with the 4gb 11.6... You should be fine.

 

[bossxii]

Has anyone tried this with the 4gb version on the 13". What will slow these things down, or what can you not do? Streaming HD video? Does anyone seeing the memory being an issue in the future?

iMovie will be slow due to a slow C2D CPU vs having 2 or 4 gigs of ram. This is raw number crunching, the weakest part of both of the new MBA's is the CPU. Ram is there to help run multiple apps at once, VMware etc.. When stream video, the GPU will help with the load making the MBA very capable of HD 720p video. 1080p can be a bit choppy if output to an HDTV depending on the compression quality it was packaged with. I get great HD streams from Netfix ands Hulu while YouTube can be rather crappy.