The Mac Pro is in a class of its own as far as Apple computers go, but the new M1 Macs have turned the industry on its head, offering frankly ludicrous performance for their price. Can a $900 Mac Mini keep up with a Mac Pro model that goes for over 15 times the price? The results are mightily impressive, and this great video shows you what you can expect.
Coming to you from Parker Walbeck, this awesome video takes pits a $900 M1 Mac Mini against a $14,000 Mac Pro. The Mac Pro is Apple's top-of-the-line model, and it can push north of $50,000 in a top-end configuration. On the other hand, the M1 machines have taken the computing industry by storm with some of the best price-to-performance ratios ever seen. While the Mac Pro still rules supreme, the performance of the M1 machine is highly impressive and shows that the future is quite bright, as it can tackle pretty much any task you throw at it easily, and it is only the first iteration of Apple's own silicon. Besides that, the M1 laptops offer a range of improvements, most notable being their impressively long battery life. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Walbeck.
The M1 Mini (I have the 16GB 1TB version) is amazing for the money. I don't do much video editing (I use FCPX) but I've not encountered any issues to date but there's a very noticeable improvement over my iMac i7 32GB, especially in photo editing (ON1 and Luminar, both of which work perfectly via Rosetta even though not optimised for the M1) and even more so in exporting from FCPX or ON1 / Luminar where exporting speeds and brush adjustments are greatly improved Even using Chrome the page loading speeds are greatly improved (I thought this was a WiFi issue not related to the iMac - it seems not).
You pointed out people must buy a keyboard and mouse (I prefer the Apple Trackpad) but note they also need to buy speakers. The Mini's speaker is pathetic - though I supposed to be expected in such a tiny enclosure!
Being able to buy a separate monitor is also a major benefit as all of my (4) iMacs have suffered from the same issue : the grey smudge marks appearing either bottom left or top right (or both) which seems to be related to the fan positioning and which Apple are surely negligent in not resolving. I bought the excellent Philips PHL 328P6VU with wide gamut. It's worth looking for something like this over the usual 4k monitors which lack as wide a gamut. The downside is you can't control the screen settings from the computer and so have to use the (very) fiddly monitor controls for any adjustments.
Correct me if I'm wrong but 125 seconds as opposed to 50 seconds is 150% faster, not 250% faster. Same with 4 seconds compared with 10 seconds.
Yes, you are wrong. 125/50 = 2.5 = 250% ;)
When calculating Percent Delta in terms of performance between 2 products, (high number - low number) / low number * 100
Let's validate it:
50 + 250% = 175.
50 + 150% = 125.
Andy is correct.
125-50=75(difference)
75/50 = 1.5 or 150%
He is right.
It is 150% FASTER or 250% AS FAST. You always subtract 100% when saying faster. Faster describes the the difference *between* the two. It's like if you have $100 and I have $200, then you would say I have 100% more. Or you could say I have 200% as much as you.
You are correct.
The huge difference I noticed between the M1 and previous gen chipsets is the Super Resolution process in ACR. 5min on my pretty decent i7 w/ 16GB of RAM and BMD eGPU (not sure if that's being used, but I'm mentioning it anyway).
5 SECONDS on a new M1 MBP and Mac Mini.
The M1 MBP has completely blown me away with the performance and heat management, it just doesn’t warm up, and the fans have never kicked in yet.
It’s breezing through tasks in Capture One at speeds I didn’t think were possible.
The future of computing is bright if this is the standard being set, and that’s for all platforms.
This review would have been a much better comparison if he used the beta version that supports the M1 chip. This is not a valid comparison.
Privileged and elite? Just save up for it and move on.
Professional studios and companies are buying them. It's not really a computer for average joes.
I literally stopped watching at the “Premiere Pro but not optimized” point. Then add c70… stupid comparison.
I do have one major no-go with the mac lineup - replace/repairability of essential parts like Memory, GPU and the storage device. Not removable = not coming into my setup.
Premiere Pro that’s at the moment is a poor and lousy M1 port. He should have considered FCPX and DaVinci Resolve (both that I use extensively). I gave up on Premiere Pro for almost 3 years now.