Is M1 Max worth $400 extra? - MacBook Pro 14'

Apple Silicon has left a lasting impression for both its CPU and GPU power, but could a 14 inch laptop really do the M1 Max SoC justice, or is this MacBook too specialized for its own good?

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:05 M1 Max
1:50 Specs
2:50 Comparison
3:29 Benchmarks
5:16 Davinci Resolve
5:51 Cinema4D Redshift
7:07 Gaming Benchmarks
8:50 CPU Discussion
10:41 Thermals
11:22 Battery Life

[googleone]

Tailoring the chip to videomakers is essentially marketing genius, since it'll satisfy all the Youtube reviewers

[TheRealAtello]

Man, that single photo of Linus has gotten more mileage than all of the cars I've ever owned combined.

[KTHR]

2:54 That's a bold choice to use a 90's brick phone as a pointing device instead of literally _anything_ else. What a delightfully weird repurposing of e-waste, I fully support it.

[Excalibaard]

Therapist: Gangthony isn't real, he can't hurt you.
Gangthony: 'MAXED OUT MACS ARE MAD MACS WITH M1 MAX TO THE MAXXX'

[kB]

i love that the 5950X testbench is so much faster that it just goes off the charts
i know it's not a fair comparison, it just looks funny

[andreasneukoetter]

If you want to actually see the promised performance gains:
Use it for software development.
Build times went from 4 minutes (2019, 16" MBP, max spec) to <20 seconds (2021, M1 Max, med spec)

[nyanray]

I dunno if/how you're coaching Anthony to host these things, whatever you're doing, keep doing it. He just keeps getting better and better for every video, and he was good enough with a decent margin to begin with!

[toshineon]

I'm a little puzzled about Apple's claims. On the CPU side, it makes sense. The M1 is using a much more efficient architecture compared to the x86 that AMD and Intel is using. But that's not how GPU's work, right?

[kenbash]

The professional presentation and eloquent voice of my favorite Linus media group personalities makes this review very entertaining and informative!

[Bellenchia]

You guys should really add model training to your benchmark. Find a basic TensorFlow notebook and see how M1 fares against a neural workload.

[nocturnx]

This "the answer may surprise you. It sure surprised me" thing is starting to be a distinctive mark of Anthony's videos and I like it. Love the energy!

[parkeredwards]

I wish you guys did more testing in audio production, I'd be curious to see how Logic pro and Ableton Live run with lots of VSTS on the M1 Max

[jonathanschmidt]

These recent reviews with Anthony hosting are so damn high quality that I can't wait for some of the LTT Lab content to drop in the next year. It's gonna be absolutely sick.

[hovant]

I'm really tired of mobile parts being called the same name (eg: 3080) as their exponentially more powerful discrete counterparts. They're fundamentally different parts I feel

[stolenromeo]

One thing to note, you can’t set up the pro max chip with 16GB of memory, so if you don’t NEED 32GB, it’s actually a $600 difference to go from the base M1 pro to the base M1 pro max. The $200 for the chip upgrade itself and $400 for the memory upgrade.

[SirSicCrusader]

So what Macs did you get?

"M1 max"

Yeah I know you got M1 Macs, but what model

"M1 Max..."

**flips desk**

[stormburn]

Something I think was missing was battery life under load. A key part of Apple’s claims was sustained performance even on battery and at much greater efficiency. So I’m curious how the gaming comparisons would look if you capped framerates to 60 or 30 across machines and compared battery life then. You showed Apple exaggerated how close they were in raw performance, and now I want to know how much they exaggerated on efficiency.

[NightForce]

I really like the confidence Anthony grew over the times standing in front of the camera :)

[anno]

I’d be interested in the power consumption comparison during these tests

[RomanPapush]

In laptop comparisons I believe having separate benchmarks for plugged AND unplugged scenarios would shine more light on Apple claims.