Trying to help my film student daughter (also working paid local commercials and media manager on the side) pick the right Macbook for editing 4k/6k video, mainly using Davinci Resolve.
Budgetwise, I was pointing her at the new 14" MBP with 32G ram, but I'm beginning to think an M1 MBP with the M2 Max might be a better deal. I get a veterans discount and on the refurb store I can get an M1 Max with the 32 core gpu vs the 16 core gpu on the new M2, for a similar price, with a 1TB Ssd vs the 512 on the M2 a nice bonus.
I've been having trouble deciphering benchmarks and comparisons and am wondering real world if the M1 max is the way to go for Davinci, given the extra GPU cores. Ordinarily I'd wait to see more reviews that would give me a better idea, but she has a project coming up and needs to pull the trigger in the next couple of days.
I wish I had more details, but the girl is not very tech-smart and is relying on me. My knowledge of editing is not very high and neither is the budget, so whatever she gets is going to need to last a good while, so while the M1 Max seems to me like the way to go, maybe it's a mistake?
She no longer lives at home and therefore doesn't have ready access to my 2019 i5 27" iMac (40G Ram/580X 8G VRAM), which she was pretty happy using, at least for 1080p and some 4k stuff. But now she's editing 6K stuff, including 10 min scenes with no cuts and the borrowed windows machine she is using is choking and she hates it. No idea on the specs. She does a lot of color correcting and layers, and I'm sure either choice is going to be amazing in comparison.
But...
Help a Dad make the right call!
Budgetwise, I was pointing her at the new 14" MBP with 32G ram, but I'm beginning to think an M1 MBP with the M2 Max might be a better deal. I get a veterans discount and on the refurb store I can get an M1 Max with the 32 core gpu vs the 16 core gpu on the new M2, for a similar price, with a 1TB Ssd vs the 512 on the M2 a nice bonus.
I've been having trouble deciphering benchmarks and comparisons and am wondering real world if the M1 max is the way to go for Davinci, given the extra GPU cores. Ordinarily I'd wait to see more reviews that would give me a better idea, but she has a project coming up and needs to pull the trigger in the next couple of days.
I wish I had more details, but the girl is not very tech-smart and is relying on me. My knowledge of editing is not very high and neither is the budget, so whatever she gets is going to need to last a good while, so while the M1 Max seems to me like the way to go, maybe it's a mistake?
She no longer lives at home and therefore doesn't have ready access to my 2019 i5 27" iMac (40G Ram/580X 8G VRAM), which she was pretty happy using, at least for 1080p and some 4k stuff. But now she's editing 6K stuff, including 10 min scenes with no cuts and the borrowed windows machine she is using is choking and she hates it. No idea on the specs. She does a lot of color correcting and layers, and I'm sure either choice is going to be amazing in comparison.
But...
Help a Dad make the right call!
