Help please....Why is my Dell laptop editing premier footage so well when it is sooo badly specced?

[scra11]

Hi All,

I  mistakenly bought an underpowered laptop some months ago. Its a Dell 7420.   It has an integrated video ram.  The video has 128meg of ram.   I have been looking for another more powerful laptop with a good video card so I can edit in Premier Pro.

Heres the thing....   I downloaded Premier Pro onto this under powered laptop and it seems to edit my project without any issues.   Am I missing something here? The laptop has 16 meg of Ram and an I5 cpu.

I am editing full HD footage, which is all I need.

I did a trial export and it exported just fine.  This is so weird, can someone please tell me what is going on here?   I just dont get it!

[Peru Bob]

Hi All,

The laptop has 16 meg of Ram

By @scra11

Meg or Gig?

[scra11]

oh sorry, it has 16 gig of ram.... I just dont get it..

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[Peru Bob]

It is probably using integrated graphics.

[scra11]

I am not totally sure what that means, would you be kind enough to explain?

[Peru Bob]

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000057824/graphics.html

[Warren Heaton]

It sounds like your i5 system is stable, but it can be expected to have longer render and export times than a like generation or newer i7 or i9.