Maybe you don't care, but someone might find it helpful. Whatever Apple's engineers are doing to get such a full sound profile out of laptop speakers, it's light years ahead of the competition. If you edit plenty of videos or plan to use more external screens, then the M1 Max is the way to go.
NextIt's unrealistic to think that a computer from 2014 is going to still have the same support as it did in 2014.
What exactly is a "creator"? The performance is not limited on battery power, even when you stress both the CPU as well as the GPU. Restrictions and limitations may apply.
NextWith built-in support for vision, hearing, mobility, and learning, you can create and do amazing things.
The display in particular, as well as the integration in MacOS of HDR and Wide Color Gamut is phenomenal. And while the latest PC laptops top out at 16GB of graphics memory, having this huge amount of memory enables graphics-intensive workflows previously unimaginable on a notebook. ± Playing The Witcher 3, the average temperature for the upper side is 36.
NextThe new MacBook Pro 16.
For everyone else, it gives you the benefits of a high refresh-rate display without the battery drain that usually accompanies it.
Congrats on the P1 and X1 purchases - great hardware, great usabilty. This allows M1 Max to be configured with up to 64GB of fast unified memory.
NextM1 Pro has an up-to-16-core GPU that is up to 2x faster than M1 and up to 7x faster than the integrated graphics on the latest 8-core PC laptop chip.
The M1 Max MacBook Pro pulls way ahead of the competition, consistently exporting fully edited variants 1-2 minutes faster than either the Dell or MSI laptops, even when plugged in: Plugged In Canon EOS R6 Export Nikon Z7 II Export Sony a7R IV Export Fujifilm GFX 100 Export MacBook Pro 0:53 1:59 2:23 4:14 MSI Creator 17 1:30 3:08 3:48 6:10 Dell XPS 17 1:40 3:33 4:14 6:54 This gap only widens on battery, where the MSI slows down by a little bit and the Dell slows down by a lot. Apple gives you the option to fine-tune your preferred reference mode of the built-in XDR display, allowing creatives to dial in the perfect luminance and white point. Are you upset because you just don't like Apple or do you find fault with any of the objectively measured benchmarks? You run on your track and I'll run on mine.
NextI saw it myself in person all of the ones I saw in the Apple stores had the same little gaps - so no, it's not a small issue reported by a tiny internet minority and will wait for the next machines which hopefully won't have as many problems.
To test this claim, we put the M1 Max MacBook Pro 16 up against two of the computers it's actively competing against in the PC space: the MSI Creator 17 and the Dell XPS 17.
NextYou bought a Mac when you have "many many" Windows programs you need to run? The X1 Extreme with I9-11950h 64 GB is £2399 - after discount; a very capable laptop possibly very comparable to X1 Max 64 GB.
You will find plenty of people with the screen gaps and other issues. The table and graph below tell the story better than I can: On Battery Render All Export Master File Export H.
NextBut the main thing we want to know is: what do you want to know about these new MacBook Pros? VMs have the same basic architecture as the host CPU.