I’ve just spent a few minutes chuckling to myself because I think this is going to be the third article in a row where I reference an Instagram Reel<\/a> that I caught last night. Could I be slightly addicted to endlessly scrolling through the abyss of poorly-filmed comedy skits? I think so, but it reminds me of Vine. I miss Vine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyway, to the point, the Instagram Reel<\/a>‘s initial shot was of a student at his desk on his laptop, which read, “When I try to edit 4K footage on my laptop.” The shot then cuts to the hallway, where we see a bright flash and a loud bang from the student’s room, insinuating that his laptop blew up. And, of course, we can all relate to this sentiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As a gamer, I’ve always been a desktop guy, as my workstation can double for both high processing editing and ultra-graphical gameplay. With that, I’ve never put too much thought into editing on laptops. And, when I have used them in the past, I’ve had extremely choppy performance when editing 4K. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Although, in the defense of those machines, they were somewhat consumer-friendly laptops. I’d wager that their RRP was around $700-$800\u2014nearly half the price of my desktop GPU. So, I shouldn’t expect the performance of a desktop inside of a laptop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n However, that ideology has somewhat changed recently, as I’ve had my hands on the Gigabyte Aero 15 4K AMOLED, and the model that houses a NVIDIA 3070<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n