If it’s a longer file, the gap widens proportionately. That’s seven extra minutes of waiting for a four-minute video. It took 8 minutes 26 seconds on the 2019, fully spec’ed out Intel MacBook Pro.
Here are some testing numbers: I rendered a four-minute 8K video file on Final Cut Pro on this M1 Max MacBook Pro, and the machine rendered the file in 1 minute, 35 seconds. In a week of use, I have not heard the fan whip up once. And as for heat and fan noise? This machine only got moderately warm even when I was rendering 8K videos for testing. Having an SD Card slot built-in is a godsend - I have lost count of how many times I have wanted to move camera files over my Intel Mac just to realize I don’t have a dongle with me. This is a machine a professional filmmaker could probably use for his work.įirst, the two complaints I had with my Intel Mac (needing a dongle and machine heating up when rendering videos) are fixed here. In fact, my semi-pro workflow doesn’t even utilize all of its power and potential. This thing is an absolute powerhouse built for creative professionals. I've been doing all my work off a 2019 Intel MacBook Pro for two years with no issues, but after using the M1 Max MacBook for a week, it's going to be very hard to go backīut after using this new M1 Max-powered MacBook Pro for a week, it’s going to be very hard for me to go back to the older machine. If I had to nitpick and name gripes, it’d be that the machine runs hot and loud (the fan kicks in) when I’m rendering 4K videos longer than a couple of minutes, and I need to use a dongle every time I need to transfer camera files over. I do more than just type words into WordPress.įor the past year and a half, I have been doing all of the above off my 2019 Intel i9 MacBook Pro with mostly no issues. While I wouldn’t call myself a proper “professional video content creator” like someone making professional movies or ads, I do consider myself a semi-professional creative.
I also make videos for XDA’s YouTube channel (as well as my own), which requires me to film 4K footage, then move over to the computer, edit in Final Cut Pro, render, and upload. But the nature of new media means my job duties include a half dozen other things like snapping product shots with a real camera, moving files over to the computer, then touching up, resizing, watermarking, renaming and uploading to XDA’s CMS. I am first and foremost a writer, tasked with writing thousands of words a week for XDA. And the M1 Pro and M1 Max improve on the M1 in every way possible. For well over a decade, the general consensus in the computing industry was that ARM-based mobile SoCs are more efficient (they are smaller, use less power and generate less heat), but are capped at how much power they can output, while the more complicated x86 architecture has higher ceilings in terms of how much power it can push out.Īpple took that notion and threw it out the window last year with the introduction of M1, which was just as powerful as the latest Intel processors at most tasks while being significantly more efficient. In layman’s terms, these are ARM-based mobile SoCs (systems-on-a-chip) that are structurally close to smartphone SoCs rather than traditional computer processors built on Intel’s x86 architecture. These are essentially “Pro” upgrades to the M1 silicon that blew the socks off almost every reviewer last year. If you visit XDA-Developers and you’re this far down in this article, surely you’ve heard of the silicon powering Apple’s new MacBook Pros, the M1 Max and M1 Pro. Ever since I switched to using a MacBook as my main work machine, I haven’t touched that mouse as much. I even carried it in my backpack when I went on trips.
When I used to daily drive a 2017 Dell XPS 13 or a 2018-era Huawei MateBook X Pro, I’d connect a wireless mouse whenever I had the chance. This is great news because I find that trackpad to be the best trackpad I’ve ever used, and the keyboard among one of the best. Otherwise, the keyboard and trackpad use the same hardware as the 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro, including the fingerprint scanner in the upper right corner.
It’s a complete non-issue for me for my use cases. The Touch Bar was fine, and these F keys are fine. I know some of my peers in the media industry are applauding this move, but I don’t really care. The new MacBook Pro 2021 ditches the Touch Bar used in the last few years’ MacBook Pros, in its place is the return of F keys. 96W charger with the 10-Core CPU variants.Apple M1 Max (10-Core CPU, 32-Core GPU).Apple M1 Max (10-Core CPU, 24-Core GPU).Apple M1 Pro (10-Core CPU, 16-Core GPU).Apple M1 Pro (10-Core CPU, 14-Core GPU).
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