Is It Worth An Upgrade?

When new tech doesn’t do much after all

No, this isn’t my computer. | Photo by Maksim Chernyshev on Scopio

Among other things, I am a filmmaker. That means my computers get put through the wringer. My last editing workstation was an HP Z800 that I kept for about ten years. Among other reasons I replaced it was that it took forever to process video files.

When I would try to ingest video or render video or export video, it would just…