this is like the arguments about how folks are not real professional photographers unless they has a Hasselblad Medium format or a Canon EOS R3 or Nikon D6 camera(s). The 'tool' defins the 'real work' as opposed to the skill brought to the tool.
Dude, I'm not going to read your whole run-on-sentence of a post, but I will reply to this one.
I'm probably one of the handful of people on this forum that's an actual professional (ie my stuff's been seen by billions of people). There are a few other folks here that are composers for movies and tv and actual producers. People like us generally don't care what the tool is or what the spec is, as long as it gets the job done, so you got the wrong guy if you think I care about "specs".
My overall point was about the 3d artists, who I do work closely with sometimes. I don't do 3d work anymore, but I am telling you from a professional POV, the 3d artists/vfx folks (unless you count compositors) have left Macs once Apple abandoned them many moons ago.
No one is saying M5 isn't incredible. Getting 15% increase every year is an amazing feat that no other manufacturer is doing, but take the fanboy hat off for a second and read what I said above.
Simply put, Apple cannot and does not compete directly with 5090 style performance. Nor easily even with the mediocre top end AMD GPUs. Simply put, the SoCs are geared for performance per watt, not raw power. You cannot argue against this at all, so don't bring up Blender benchmarks. In the pro field, no one cares about benchmarks, we just do our job and move on.
Also it's pretty odd you're comparing a medium format camera to a full frame sensor. They are completely different beasts and the old adage of "the right tool in the wrong artists hands" may be true to a certain extent, but you cannot compare a full frame camera to a full sensor camera. That's like comparing 35mm 3 perf film with IMAX 70mm 15 perf film, both are completely in different leagues for dynamic range and resolution. So you are wrong again here. You are comparing technical specs vs artistic execution. Both can shoot pretty images in the right hands (and it all depends on lighting, production, subject matter, and the photographer and the right tool chosen by whoever is doing the shooting). You're telling me that Ansel Adams could've shot his landscapes on 35mm and not medium format?
Just stop arguing with me, I am 100% correct here. You're just punching air at this point.
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