Apple's M1 chip turned the computing world on its head when it first arrived, and the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips took things several steps further, promising even better performance in tandem with highly impressive battery life. So, how does the latest MacBook Pro perform in practice, under the demands of a professional creative? This great video review will show you what you can expect from it.
Coming to you from YC Imaging, this awesome video review takes a look at the performance of the new 16-inch M1 Max MacBook Pro. The thing that has really caught my attention about the new generation of MacBook Pros is the ridiculous performance-to-power ratio. While the M1 models have shown the muscle needed to tackle an array of demanding tasks, they do so with such impressive efficiency. Whereas you used to be able to expect a few hours of battery life when pushing a laptop to such extremes, we are now seeing all-day performance out of the MacBook Pros, making them all the more compelling and quite possibly all a lot of creatives need (maybe paired with a larger monitor for working at home). Check out the video above for the full rundown.
Our entire team has upgraded this month and it has changed our workflow. Importing and rendering previews in Lightroom Classic is now about 3x faster, so you can start editing your photos quicker... which is really useful with fast, high-res cameras like the R5 and a1. We can now edit 4k/60 video seamlessly without waiting for Final Cut to render proxies. Video rendering is about 2X faster. Basically this all means we can move to post-processing on the same day rather than letting things render overnight, and when we're working on a tight deadline we can squeeze in an extra 30 or 60 minutes of work, knowing the rendering process won't take as long. Totally worth the investment for us.
They're not perfect, though! My built-in SD card reader only works about 50% of the time, which is a known problem many people are having. Multiple monitors never worked great, and they're still pretty flakey, with monitors just not connecting sometimes on wake-up. Final Cut regularly crashes (but it crashed on my Intel Mac too). And if you want to install a Sony firmware update you have to temporarily disable kernel-level security features, but that's Sony's fault, not Apple's.
I don't think this is good though. You can create and upload more clickbait videos than you normally do ;)
:rolleyes: smh
For someone who has worked with Mac so far, the speed increase may be >100%. For users who already went to PC technology with Ryzen 12/16 cores + Nvidia RTX a few years ago, there will be no relevant speed difference.
But just inserting a 2nd NVME SSD; adding x SSD's or inserting a 10GBit network card - that is still not possible in the "closed BlackBox Mac". What bothers me personally is the fact that RAM wants to be paid very, very expensive with the new MAC.
However, what is still on the credit side of the Apple Silicon is the power consumption and the fact that this performance is now available in the notebook range.
Yes and no. Our 8K/6K video edits work way faster than our RTX 3070/3080 desktop setups without the need to use proxies. No problem with second monitors, especially since I edit on-site and outdoors using Sidecar more often. No crashing with DaVinci and still waiting for a more optimised After Effects (c’mon Adobe, geesh!)— I use it more than Fusion.
But we still use and need Tensor/CUDA for out post production. Blender/Maya still runs faster on the PCs. And we use essential apps like RIFE when doing frame-creation via ML.
Bottom line: I’d rather work with the macs. But until most of the software we need (especially the Tensor-based), are ported/optimised for Apple Silicon, we will still be working on multiple platforms in the foreseeable future. And that may not be a bad thing.