Maybe I don't need all the power of an M1 Max, but I regularly need more power than an M1 Pro, so... the Max is the next level up that I need to have. And I'm very happy with it.
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M1 Max is overkill, nobody needs this much power!!
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I have a different point of view. This is great. Get your Xbox for gaming and for less than an iPad Pro or cheap windows computer then have your MacBook Pro or Studio for everything else! Perfect. Now bootcamp is not needed for gamers and we can stop comparing things like gaming rigs and GPU to Mac. For a Mac optimized workload M1 Max GPU is incredible!
Now we can focus just on Macs??
Now we can focus just on Macs??
When was the last time you ran professional 3D modeling on your XBOX?
This is a stupid comparison
Or, buy the right tool which fit all needs on average the best.
I adore macOS.
I love the iLife and iWork apps.
I use FCP X as a hobbyist.
I enjoy flight-simming with X-Plane.
I sometimes play games like Dirt and Grid.
... therefore I Mac
My personal opinion on this is - ignore the trolls.
You can buy whatever you want but I’d just wait for the MacBook Air redesign and buy the max ram w/ 1TB storage option of it.
What sorry @&$( would buy a Mac to play games in the first place. Is this a joke?
Those are GPU benchmarks. If your workload is CPU constrained (e.g. make/ninja), not relevant.
Like this you mean? CPU processing…
And let me remind you the energy consumption of the m1 max MBP 16”?
Not even 40w to the wall
And let me remind you the energy consumption of the m1 max MBP 16”?
Not even 40w to the wall
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My post was about making the better comparison. Between an Xbox and an Alienware PC, what is a better comparison to a Mac?
You’re making a different point. I agree one should get the tool best fit for the job, of course. But you need to first compare the right tools.
My exact point considering the OP compare salads to apples ?♂️
I reckon the M1 Pro would have been more then adequate for me even while editing using FCPX. But I bought the M1 Max version with the 64GB RAM upgrade anyways. Why?? Just because I had the choice and I wanted to.
I opened Lightroom on my XBox in February and it's still loading.
Who's spreading the misinformation? Surely not Apple, that would be shooting yourself in the foot.
But whoever made that statement, they weren't thinking of gamers. Shame on them! If you're a professional gamer, that must be highly irritating, so you should probably stop visiting the website where you read that.
“Future proofing” is almost always a bad idea. It makes no sense, unless your goal is to waste money.
Future proofing is great until something like universal control or sidecar comes out and your machine doesn’t have the newest version of Bluetooth (or whatever) to support it.
Also, it‘s like buying a computer today hoping that maybe one day software will max it out.
I’d rather buy half the computer twice as often.
With the pace of the nascent Apple Silicone transition, it’s like loading up an Intel 80286 (i286) machine in 1982, and then sitting on the sidelines while CPU speed doubled every year or so. You could upgrade to a 486 processor a couple of years later, but the rest of the machine was the bottleneck.
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If you buy the best thing available, it costs a fortune. If you buy the 2nd or 3rd best thing, it is generally a lot less. If you need that thing to be the best thing available, than your usually willing to pay the premium. Those same premiums, also keep low quantities available for required audiences over someone who might not need the best.
The pricing model of high-end graphics/computing/electronic is generally designed to work this way…. Because capitalism has tailored this model to fit its requirements of supply and demand while keeping the purchasing audiences generally non-angry.
Series X and the Mac Studio is actually a much closer comparison than you might think. Both are concepts taken to the extreme, and represents the future of each’s respective market. As both have been so successful, it is extremely likely that both of the concepts these two systems represents will be the future of electronic devices.
Or in other words… SOCs are here to stay
The pricing model of high-end graphics/computing/electronic is generally designed to work this way…. Because capitalism has tailored this model to fit its requirements of supply and demand while keeping the purchasing audiences generally non-angry.
Series X and the Mac Studio is actually a much closer comparison than you might think. Both are concepts taken to the extreme, and represents the future of each’s respective market. As both have been so successful, it is extremely likely that both of the concepts these two systems represents will be the future of electronic devices.
Or in other words… SOCs are here to stay
That is not True, I am in the business of Monitoring the Dark Web which is many times bigger than the surface web you know sites such as cnn.com and Amazon and Facebook. I go threw billions of pages each day and index them and use artificial intelligence and I need all that power. I don’t offload the processing power needed to services like AWS because I don’t trust that the data is encrypted to begin with and the info is all proprietary and I am competing with Billion dollar companies in Market cap and I am single handily beating the competition being a 1 man show. I can’t wait for the Mac Pro to come out with 40 CPUs cause I need the processing power. So when you say nobody needs that much power, you might be thinking of those that use it for MS word and browsing the web.
There are thousands of others like me who model many things with billions and even trillions of data points.
There are thousands of others like me who model many things with billions and even trillions of data points.