We test the Mac Studio in the “Real World”

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Last time we gave a creatives a MacBook Pro we got a unexpected result. So this time around we gave a Mac Studio to a fashion designer who uses an app that Apple presented at the March event. Hopefully we get a good result!

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
0:45 Meet Matthew, the contest and his computer
2:42 Thanks UGREEN!
3:04 Starting his design on CLO3D
4:16 A major change happens
6:18 What about the other apps?
7:29 Final moments and final design
10:19 The contest results

[NateDawg]

Replacing his Logitech mouse with the magic mouse seems cruel

[ArtyI]

See, he has the correct mindset. Doesn't matter what OS you've got if you're getting optimal performance

[MidnghtSun]

What really holds me back is that Apple STILL doesn't support modern graphics APIs like Vulkan. Apple literally tells developers looking to port their games to mac, to rely on MoltenVK, which is an open source solution to map Vulkan API calls to Metal.The Mac is a very capable gaming platform, but is constantly held back by Apple wanting to do things their way.

[kyrregjerstad]

Quick note regarding the plugins in Ableton: Several plugin manufacturers have been held back for years due to the iLok licensing software which only became native a couple of months ago. Now that the iLok software is running natively almost all major developers have released native versions as well!

[johnatkinson]

You can have all the hardware power you want, if your software isn’t optimized for the hardware it’s not going to be as useful as less powerful hardware with good optimization.

[constantinelpallas]

I switched from using a Mac to a PC because I needed (usable) GPU acceleration for game development programs like Unity, which was originally designed to be mac-first. I'd love to see a return to having two competitive options for game development computers.

[vlad]

Really like the whole “grab an Apple product, give it to some LMG power user” idea.

Brings a whole new dimension to what products actually do.

[HobbieJ]

I just want to shout to the rooftops how incredible this channel is. Even a review just feels more Apple, with a real life use case instead of a bunch of bullet points. It really brought the human element too, because at the end of the day, yeah, I love macOS, but I really cared about the art contest over anything else!

[avdcam]

When I thought all video review formats were exhausted Jonathan comes up with a documentary tech review reality tv mocumentary style series. Epic.

[andrewd]

MAC Address is honestly the most interesting and well made of the LMG channels at the moment. I love the topics and the direction you choose, and it feels like a lot more effort and care is taken for each video. Keep up the good work!

[JeffGeerling]

Since I use Final Cut Pro X and Photoshop a lot... the Mac Studio has absolutely blown away my expectations compared to any other Mac I've owned. And in terms of silence (not just raw performance), any PC I've been able to afford and fit in my office. But I still have a PC for gaming, and run a few Linux boxes too. macOS still has some of its own limitations. It really depends on the exact software you use whether the performance will be amazing, or just meh.

[melissablick]

First, love the aesthetic so much more than any other LMG channel. Almost really appreciate that media production is not the only professional use case for workstations.

I own both a macbook and pc, and use professional protein simulation tools. Some visualization tools have native M1 builds .e.g. VMD, ChimeraX (preview build). NVIDIA invested heavily over the past two decades in supporting commercial and academic developers to implement CUDA. That's paid off in spades.

[JOHNY]

I really like how despite this channel being part of LMG, it has it's own unique style and it's not so over the top. It's about Apple but isn't afraid of showing issues with Apple products and is focused on the human side of things and real-world scenarios instead of just shouting specs and throwing performance graphs at our face. I also really appreciate how it has videos for almost every type of user, from creative to casual.

[mr_manager]

This mix of tech content and behind the scenes…. I just love it. Mac Address truly is my favorite channel from all LMG

[edmn]

A Mac Address day is always a good day

[tronam]

Thankfully on the audio side most companies are now M1 native, including 16 digital audio workstations (with only Protools and Reason left) and over 2, 000 plug-ins across 330 developers. The slowest devs to migrate have been some of the old stalwarts going back decades like Native Instruments and iZotope, but at least their most popular plugins are now native like Kontakt, RX, Neutron and Ozone. Of my 300ish plugins, only a very small handful are left to be ported. The most respected active devs like Soundtoys, Waves, Fabfilter, Arturia, Spectrasonics, Plugin Alliance, Spitfire, Eventide, Korg, PSP, Universal Audio, Softube, U-He, Valhalla, Xfer Records, among many others are Apple Silicon native now.

[jippalippa]

I have an M1 Ultra, and I'll say the problem is inconsistency.
Within the same software some tasks are bazingly fast, sone others worryingly slow.
For example I use After Effects and some tasks (like camera tracking) are super fast, while others (like working with shape layers) are quite slow.

[albanb]

I've been through the OS9/OSX transition and the PowerPC/Intel one and honnestly this one is fast comapre to the other, I'm even impressed by Adobe speed in this transition, last times it was minimum 18 month to have some sort of optimised soft.

[christianpinche]

Great video! You should test the Mac Studio with a motion designer and see how it performs with the native version of After Effects. I'm very curious about it!

[DekuSonic]

The way you present stuff is so good.Usually I am sceptical on apple based channels but you just bring out all aspects of owning one and editing of the video is so calming in a way.

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