Then she unboxed the Mk Pro S6 Plus.
Her deadline moved up by six hours. Panic flared, then faded. She dragged the render slider to “aggressive” and watched the progress bar sprint. 12 minutes. The old laptop would have taken an hour.
At 3:15 AM, she exported the final file. The Mk Pro S6 Plus had not crashed, lagged, or even warmed her coffee—which had gone cold on its own.