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Maxed Out High-End 16-Inch MacBook Pro Costs $6,099
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Here's my plan.
1/ Buy 1 bitcoin.
2/ Wait for it to appreciate $12,000. (Shouldn't take more than a day or so.)
3/ Sell said bitcoin.
4/ Pay taxes.
5/ Use the remainder to buy maxed-out 16" Macbook Pro.
1/ Buy 1 bitcoin.
2/ Wait for it to appreciate $12,000. (Shouldn't take more than a day or so.)
3/ Sell said bitcoin.
4/ Pay taxes.
5/ Use the remainder to buy maxed-out 16" Macbook Pro.
Indeed! Use that second computer when the first one it taking a few minutes to render*. You're a pro with external storage anyways, so I'm sure syncing between the two is trivial.
*Or whatever. I have no idea who needs the amount of compute that Apple is putting into these machines or what you could do with it. Some kind of AI thing? I'm pretty sure current devices can render an 8K movie in real time without a problem.
So, is it clear to you that the M1Max is worth the upgrade? I do editing on Premiere and am not really sure what the extra cores buy you in real world application. I'm still kind of a newbie and would appreciate any thoughts.
I just ordered one right after the keynote, with a top of the line M1 Max 10-core CPU, 32-core GPU, and 16-core Neural Engine, that is almost completely maxed out and with 3 years of Apple Care it came to 4,979.88! I got a 2TB SSD instead of the 8TB and I got 64GB of RAM. I am replacing a late 2013 MacBook Pro so I deserve this bad boy! It is not coming until December, I guess there is a delay for the custom spec models?
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You know, I think you won't fully know until the Youtube reviews come out and I think there will be several youtubers doing reviews specifically with speed tests for Premiere.
If you're a newbie, its easy to be convinced by these reviews however. For you specifically, I think it bascially comes down to render time. Does it the rendering time affect you that much? In a past production job, it did. Many of our videos needed to be rendered and posted to YT in a time sensitive fashion and its hard to use your computer (or find another to use) when you need to be on the go attending to some other task.
Secondly, what kind of media are you using? 4k or 8k footage? How many streams of that are you using?
I think the GPU cores would help you here if you know you are using 4k footage.
Will you be colour grading? Check out some current reviews on how that is working on the current M1. If it works well on M1 already, then great. Maybe if you don't have a mac rn then get the M1Pro, if you intend (not think, but actually have a plan) to be doing more intensive video work then the M1Max GPUs may help you.
Its the BTO/custom storage you added. When I increased storage, then the ship date was delayed.
But in my country not Dec, it was still Nov. I guess a few others have also ordered maxed out in your country.
I didn't believe you until I checked for myself... 3700 GBP for a maxed out version (sans 8TB), which is ~$5100 USD. Now add UK VAT of 20%, and the price is really ~$6100. The equivalent US price is $3900 + tax, which should bring it up to around $4250 in most locations in the USA.
So... legitimately about $1850 less. WHAT THE HECK!!! Is this a USA tourism effort? Wow.
**edit** looks like UK prices typically include VAT, so it's "only" $850 more expensive... But you can still come to the USA for that much!
Why is this nonsense take always regurgitated in every thread?
Only factor that determines whether or not this "seems" expensive is how much disposable income one has; that's it! Nothing else!
Pro just means professional, it doesn't mean you spend money on things that don't have the right value proposition.
Agreed. A fully loaded unit with the default 1TB of storage is a reasonable $3,900.
I'm not an artist..should definitely start with that and while I had a Pencil 1 and 2, I stopped using them because they never got any use.
I've had a iPad since the 1st generation and moved 11" Pro 2018 to 13" 2021 M1 Pro as a laptop replacement. The transition was slow then sudden where for many years I had a 15/16" MBP in my backpack + iPad Pro with keyboard and an iPhone and I'd consume on iPad, create on MacBook
Then I started doing 10-15K miles of motorcycle travel per year where I had to bring just one and the iPad had less moving parts and was smaller so I started traveling with that begrudgingly but then...trackpad support + Magic Keyboard was released and that put me on the iPad Pro as the default mobile choice and MBP only when creating content (photo/video editing)
My day job is a project manager so with Atlassian, Omni, Office 365, Adobe apps, I can do all of my work on an iPad Pro w/ trackpad that pays the bills. I can even import photos into it via my Canon 5D or GoPro and do some dailies for social media but mostly, I Just need to be on a trip or away from the office and be able to respond to an email in Outlook or approve a time sheet or review a document and sign / edit so iPad Pro IS my only workstation now. I sold my M1 MacBook Pro and Core i9 MacBook Pro recently because I wasn't using them anymore.
My plan, no matter what Apple did was to work 90% on my iMac, 9% on my iPad Pro and 1% on iPhone and that's my division. With these new machines, I will wait to see what Apple does with next iMac and if the performance is identical and sustained w/ thermal limits to today's MBP announcement, I'll end up replacing my iMac with a MBP 16" and then I'll have everything I need
1. Amazingly fast office computer
2. Mobile workhorse
3. iPhone for everything else.
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If software on iPadOS gets better, I may one day be able to do more content creation on the iPad Pro which is why I bought a 512GB model but I just don't see that happening in a way that is as good as what the Mac can do.
From Apple's Tech specs website:
HDMI digital video output
Support for one display with up to 4K resolution at 60Hz
Must be I'm the only one that thought this event was disappointing?
I thought Apple was overhauling the entire MacBook lineup. Instead, they introduced more variants of the pro that start at $2,000. I went into today thinking the Air and Pro were getting an overhaul, but instead, they catered to just those who just want to use the computer for intensive tasks.
Why do you mix old designs with new ones? Have the laptops be uniform.
I thought Apple was overhauling the entire MacBook lineup. Instead, they introduced more variants of the pro that start at $2,000. I went into today thinking the Air and Pro were getting an overhaul, but instead, they catered to just those who just want to use the computer for intensive tasks.
Why do you mix old designs with new ones? Have the laptops be uniform.
“higher than expected price tags.”
Higher than expected by whom? I’m pretty sure this is normal Apple pricing.
Higher than expected by whom? I’m pretty sure this is normal Apple pricing.
That's it, really. The price is completely understandable given that high-speed SSD. The few people who probably would get that option are pros working with 8k video.
I completely maxed out the 16" PRO chip with 8 TB storage and have a November 3-5 delivery date. Expensive machine, but I expect it to last me at least as long as my current maxed out at the time mid-2014 MBP 15" Retina has (which still works very well). So if it lasts me 7 years, that's slightly less than $1K per year for my computer. Not bad for the highest end machine you can buy.
Plus the tax write off, being able to expense it, etc. Six grand is nothing compared to other stuff in my studio, and this is the brain. Not bad for a new brain.
just go for it - there are worse addictions than fancy tech stuff (got he same thing with 4TB by the way 😀)