Ventura - M1 Ultra - Any improvements?

[academic_nomad]

Has anyone updated their M1 ultra to Ventura? Any speed improvements, especially in video editing (irrespective of the NLE you use)?

 

[cpnotebook80]

curious about this too..6 months later, one would hope that software would have caught up to the hardware with some speed improvements..

 

[Sharky II]

FCPX 10.6.5 came out and apparently has faster exports on Max/Ultra, but I haven't tested it.

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

Too chicken to try Ventura until about .3 or .4 upgrade... AFTER truly objective reviews by others (not the "friends of Apple marketing" prerelease (not) reviews).

Making my living mostly on Macs, I need "just works"... I have "mostly works"... and I don't really want to play renewed guinea pig until I have much greater confidence that at least "mostly works" will still be in play.

• .0 and .1 is just asking for trouble.
• .2 and .3 is probably in the gray area.
• .3-.5 is where some leap of faith may make a little sense.

Else, I strongly suggest duplicating the existing internal so you have an easy way back if jumping to Ventura now results in something less than you hope. Personally, I'm long beyond ready for a Snow Leopard-type cycle, where the focus is on bug fixes and getting macOS back towards "just works" again.

 

[Feek]

Too chicken to try Ventura until about .3 or .4 upgrade... AFTER truly objective reviews by others (not the "friends of Apple marketing" prerelease (not) reviews).

Making my living mostly on Macs, I need "just works"... I have "mostly works"... and I don't really want to play renewed guinea pig until I have much greater confidence that at least "mostly works" will still be in play.

• .0 and .1 is just asking for trouble.
• .2 and .3 is probably in the gray area.
• .3-.5 is where some leap of faith may make a little sense.

Else, I strongly suggest duplicating the existing internal so you have an easy way back if jumping to Ventura now results in something less than you hope. Personally, I'm long beyond ready for a Snow Leopard-type cycle, where the focus is on bug fixes and getting macOS back towards "just works" again.

But yet you still bought the .0 version of the Mac Studio

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

Yes, a great, revision 1, hardware gamble. That purchase was out of necessity as my main Mac conked just before. I could test it for 14 days, return it if it had major flaws and fall back to other Macs on hand.

A macOS update though is a choice: do it now or do it later. The consequences of delaying have little impact on productive use of the Mac for now.

 

[MajorFubar]

I'll update my MBA probably when 13.2 drops but I won't update my Mac Studio to MacOS13 until MacOS14 is ready to drop. If I had my way, my Studio would have shipped with MacOS11 and I'd have updated it to MacOS12.x in September.