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MacBook Pro Reviews: Fast Performance, Added Ports, and ProMotion Displays Check All the Boxes
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14" Max is 97 vs Air M1 which is 170 for iZotope - the 14" Max is almost twice as fast... so not sure what you mean.
Well, Apple never made a iMac Pro with laptop chips. You have to go to Lenovo or Dell and run the benchmarks again.
Of course no one is doing it, as there's no point doing it unless you want a locked down eco-system, which is exactly what Apple wants. They don't sell their hardware to anyone else and they don't want their software to run on any other system.
Intel, AMD and Nvidia are not in this business, they have a chip for each target market and they're resellers. They do still scale chips within their segments. Some of their chips are performing worse than M-series SoCs, some are on par and some run circles around them. It's a completely different market, not single all-in-one products. They don't control the software market like Apple, maybe Nvidia is closer in that area. When DriveSim came out and I wanted to buy it, I was looking at two $500k systems bundled to the software to get it running. Apple is doing precisely this, but on a lower end consumer level and more locked down. Nvidia has a history of scaling systems (look at Jetson platform), but for Grace they came up with a new approach as requirements were different. If anything, looking at phone chips scaled to laptops, you'd be better off looking at Samsung rather than Intel/AMD, but then again, Samsung has no serious interest outside of the phone/tablet market.
I did not find it so bad. At least she shows the new laptops a lot, which is quite useful. I have seen some video reviews which focus on the reviewer and show only a little of the products. Why do a video if not to show how the real thing looks like?
I carry a 100w PD Power bank with me for all my devices now. So no worries here. Thanks for the reminder though.
Just like most things in life, there are compromises.
If you want a very technical review, check out Anandtech, just posted a new in-depth evaluation today.
She's one of youtube's most important social media influencers. She is the gold standard for reviewing new Macs.
Interesting. So the multicore score for the Max is pretty much the same as my 2019 12 core Mac Pro. Nice.
Unless I see testing to the contrary though; educated guess that it won't handle consistent heavy loads as well- especially thermally.
If it could however, and handle all the I/O I have- 4 SSD drives (currently connected via PCIe cards), audio interface, monitor, wired ethernet, license dongles, etc, and be able to grind through the constant abuse a 10 hour working day brings....then I will switch and save a ******** of money.
The Portability would be great.
GG Apple.
Unless I see testing to the contrary though; educated guess that it won't handle consistent heavy loads as well- especially thermally.
If it could however, and handle all the I/O I have- 4 SSD drives (currently connected via PCIe cards), audio interface, monitor, wired ethernet, license dongles, etc, and be able to grind through the constant abuse a 10 hour working day brings....then I will switch and save a ******** of money.
The Portability would be great.
GG Apple.
It's designed and optimized for YouTubers, photographers and musicians.
You can't play AAA games because no game studio is releasing all those AAA titles for macOS. Makes sense.
And to the M1 Max having twice the memory bandwidth of the M1 Pro.
In the spirit of your earlier post:
It's literally a CPU with less cores. EVERY CPU manufacturer does this between their smaller and bigger models (apple included).
What makes you think the 8 core and 10 core have the same performance?
No review needed. Just pure common sense and logic.
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Jokes apart - of course the early reviewers will have been told by Apple to not compare the 8C with the 10C. Or the 14" vs the 16". Just wait for the detailed comparisons in two weeks time. If you cannot wait then have a look at https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performance-review/5. Andrei tested using SPEC and found the M1 Max on SPEC2017-Rate did 53.8/81.07 in a 8P+2E config and 48.57/75.67 in the 8P+0E config. Keeping things linear, the 6C+2E model should get ~ 41 for SPECInt which means a 22% difference in performance terms when it comes to multi-threaded tasks. For single threaded tasks, the graphs on https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performance-review/4 show that there won't be much difference between the 8C and the 10C CPU. All this assumes the 8C CPU is actually 6P and 2E cores
Not much of a choice. You want powerful? Sacrifice portability. Wan't portability, get 1-year old or older tech.
I'm glad they allow charging off both the MagSafe and USB-C. Docks are a wonderful things for me and USB-C made them super simple. MagSafe was great when on the go. Now I have the best of both. A single plug to dock and a single plug to charge when I'm mobile. Nice.
Can still play using Geforce Now especially on a RTX 3080 node. Really it's just the matter of choice.
I used to think like you but the moment I stop playing video games, video export time, and productivity tests matter more to me.
You can use logic to come to assumptions.
But assumptions are not facts.
I never said the 8c VS 10c were the same....
iJustine just compared the base 8c Pro to the Max..... ?
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IMO, the bigger issue is that it wasn't implemented optimally.
What Apple should have done is put a display strip above a row of physical F keys. Then you could let apps add "custom labels" for each of those keys as needed, but still let people type physical keys to use them. (I know some people would like to see the keys themselves have the custom display right inside each keycap.... There was a keyboard or two for Windows that attempted that before. But I don't think it ever really went anywhere. Suspect the smaller size of the F keys would make that a non-starter of an idea anyway.)
I’m really not doing that. I’m not some Apple fanboy forgiving Apple for anything they do. Would I rather there be no notch? Oh, goodness, yes! However, in the big scheme of things, it seems like a relatively small thing in practice.
Cause he’s testing it with a “Windows” app that’s designed around Nividia cards. Wait until reviews start testing it with Resolve which is runs great on Windows and Macs.
The stuff the Verge covers today is mind boggling. I use to like them when they were a tech site.
She is only successful due to her looks. Sorry to say. Her reviews are annoying and so shallow. I don't get her popularity after the initial feast for your eyes. lol