M2 Max fully loaded or M3 Max for similar price?

[Lucas Curious]

BH usually has sales on the previous MacBook Pros. If you were to see a 14" M2 Max 2TB SSD and 64Gb Ram for $2,500 no tax would you buy that over a 14" M3 Max 30 core GPU with 1TB SSD and 36gb Ram $2900 if you did occasional video editing? 7 year future proofing in mind.

 

[Apple_Robert]

There is no such thing as 7 year future proofing with tech. Remove that from your buying decision and you will see more clearly. Consider the 1TB storage and use external connected drive via a dock or NAS.

 

[Lucas Curious]

There is no such thing as 7 year future proofing with tech. Remove that from your buying decision and you will see more clearly. Consider the 1TB storage and use external connected drive via a dock or NAS.

what I mean is...if the M3 Max can edit 8k video in a smooth way today, it can do it in 7 years too.

 

[Apple_Robert]

what I mean is...if the M3 Max can edit 8k video in a smooth way today, it can do it in 7 years too.

That depends on the codecs being used in 7 years. Chances are good that you shouldn't have a problem but, who knows.

 

[magbarn]

The M3 gen is missing an AV1 hardware encoder. I don’t see it being any more future proof than the even the M1 because of that.

 

[HDFan]

The M3 gen is missing an AV1 hardware encoder.

Yeah, decoding only.

 

[magbarn]

Yeah, decoding only.

I dunno if it's intentional Apple drip drip drip of features that they didn't add an AV1 Encoder. It's one of my biggest beefs with the M3 series as I was ready to drop over $4000 on a loaded MBP 16 M3Max till I noticed this. It's kinda inexcusable that even Intel with their anemic Arc low end cards have AV1 encoding built in that Apple didn't bother putting it on their cutting edge 3nm silicon.