Surprising speed of M4 Max esp. iPhone sync

[kingjames1970]

I know I'm terribly old fashioned but I like having my own music library. Copying it to my iPhone 15 Pro Max to my M4 Max MacBook Pro and it's shockingly fast compared to my M1 Max. I can't tell you for certain as I never timed it before but it feels about 5 times faster at least or something! 13,000 song library in about 10 mins. Certainly doesn't feel like the chore it did before. Don't really understand why, I didn't think anything would change until everything went Thunderbolt 5? I've checked my phone to make sure they all copied just to be sure!

I've also opened very complex Illustrator files that visibly rendered onscreen when moving around before on my 2017 iMac Pro and were very sluggish on my M1 Max. Not now! It is like scrolling through low res JPEGs! And I have a massive Indesign spread I can now navigate in high quality that I could never do before.

Me and this MBP are going to get along very well! I'm astonished at the difference in three or so years. Apple are really knocking it out the park.

 

[glindon]

I think one of the major differences is MacOS prefers to use the small cores for most background tasks and now we have twice the small cores which are also faster to boot. Software updates and indexing are much faster now.

 

[UnifiedMelody]

I know I'm terribly old fashioned but I like having my own music library. Copying it to my iPhone 15 Pro Max to my M4 Max MacBook Pro and it's shockingly fast compared to my M1 Max. I can't tell you for certain as I never timed it before but it feels about 5 times faster at least or something! 13,000 song library in about 10 mins. Certainly doesn't feel like the chore it did before. Don't really understand why, I didn't think anything would change until everything went Thunderbolt 5? I've checked my phone to make sure they all copied just to be sure!

I've also opened very complex Illustrator files that visibly rendered onscreen when moving around before on my 2017 iMac Pro and were very sluggish on my M1 Max. Not now! It is like scrolling through low res JPEGs! And I have a massive Indesign spread I can now navigate in high quality that I could never do before.

Me and this MBP are going to get along very well! I'm astonished at the difference in three or so years. Apple are really knocking it out the park.

M4 is a beautiful leap and is what ticked me over to finally buy M4 Max 16" MBP. Not the cheapest but damn, you can't deny that performance is sweet. I'm just waiting now for Max Tech stress test video review of the max chip [14 vs 16] for fun lolol love to see those just to know how much this machine can take.

 

[kingjames1970]

M4 is a beautiful leap and is what ticked me over to finally buy M4 Max 16" MBP. Not the cheapest but damn, you can't deny that performance is sweet. I'm just waiting now for Max Tech stress test video review of the max chip [14 vs 16] for fun lolol love to see those just to know how much this machine can take.

I moved from 14” M1 Max to the 16” in part to justify the upgrade but I needn’t have worried about that - it’s another big step forward. Life as a freelance is precarious but at least I get new gear all the time. 😂

 

[UnifiedMelody]

I moved from 14” M1 Max to the 16” in part to justify the upgrade but I needn’t have worried about that - it’s another big step forward. Life as a freelance is precarious but at least I get new gear all the time. 😂

I'm moving from a ****** pc thats gone rogue on me [3900x, 1080ti, 64gb, 8-16gb worth of ssd/hdd's 50/50%] to a MBP M4 Max 16" 64/1TB... [once my copy does arrive, unfortunately changing ram from 48 to 64gb bumped the delivery time to 3 weeks extra supposedly but i didnt want to run into ram caps and i already had 64gb so lolol]

- with external T9 4TB ssd's... something i have to adapt to but will learn fast. <3

im probably not even ready for M4 Max prowess yet but i have to anticipate.

 

[kingjames1970]

I'm moving from a ****** pc thats gone rogue on me [3900x, 1080ti, 64gb, 8-16gb worth of ssd/hdd's 50/50%] to a MBP M4 Max 16" 64/1TB... [once my copy does arrive, unfortunately changing ram from 48 to 64gb bumped the delivery time to 3 weeks extra supposedly but i didnt want to run into ram caps and i already had 64gb so lolol]

- with external T9 4TB ssd's... something i have to adapt to but will learn fast. <3

im probably not even ready for M4 Max prowess yet but i have to anticipate.

You’ll love it. And I think you made the right decision with the RAM, I got 64GB too. Although we can all complain about silly pricing, there’s no point buying such a powerful computer and then limiting it. And financially it should last a bit longer.