Hi Jim, Appreciate your time, but that is exactly the tangent I was trying to prevent with my PS. at the bottom of my post. For you and anyone itching to talk about this device type's viability for video editing, I will say I feel they are extremely viable because: As I said, it's not my main edit suite. I also would never recommend a 2-in-1 (or any compact laptop) for most peoples' main edit suite As I also said, I need to pack extremely light (not quite light). You might like to hike up mountains and cycle around with a computer case, I don't! 2-in-1s can be very capable (not compared to the very latest desktop equivalent) but generally in editing 1080p footage. I wonder Jim when the last time you actually edited on a top spec, recent 2-in-1 was? Here's the XPS 15 2-in-1 just about cutting 4K video footage, with Lumetri colour grade, in real time: Dell XPS 15 2-in-1 9575 Content Creation REVIEW - 3D, Video Editing, Photography, Artist - YouTube - for me, that's definitely viable for a basic quick edit when I'm out in the field, and for the many people out there who need to produce quick little videos on the move. The drives are extremely fast SSDs, will happily connect via Thunderbolt 3 (that's a 40Gb [5 gigabytes] per second channel!) to external SSDs with minimal latency, the GPUs are also very capable with Mercury; happily playing multiple streams of full HD footage with colour grades or basic graphics, while plugged into multiple 4K monitors, and I would bring my main edit suite keyboard or a slimline alternative that weighs <300 grams so not worried about your keyboard concern either! Price: Again I think you're a bit out of date, because if I saved a couple of grand on the Dell XPS 2-in-1, I'd be leaving you with less than £0 to build me your competing small desktop computer. I don't think you'll be able to build much for zero pounds. Hope that's helpful for you / others and look forward to any leads on my question
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