he paid over thirty thousand dollars to get every version of Apple's new M1 Pro
and M1 Max MacBooks and now that we've finally got our grubby paws on them we
can really put them through their Paces we're focusing on the 14-inch M1 Pro
Macbook today both the 814 core and the 1016 core models not only are we going
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as soon as you lay eyes on the new MacBooks the flattened edges strike you
in the same way older generation MacBooks did this is in stark contrast
to the 2016 pedigree of MacBooks that did everything in their power to hide
their Dimension by adding curves wherever possible looking kind of like
an envelope with something bulging out from it this refreshed flattened design
philosophy just so happens to allow Apple to stuff more functionality into
the new machines it's almost like fan at any cost held them back imagine that
while the changes keep rolling back we're looking at a new touch barless
keyboard with basically zero deck flex and thankfully they brought back the
function keys personally I'd still like to have the touch bar maybe stick with
half height function keys and sneak it in there just so long as I get function
keys like look how much faster it is to mute a Mac with function keys than with
the touch bar it's not even a contest
and there's no contest that magsafe always has been and always will be the
best charging method for an expensive laptop like a Macbook Pro not only is
the new implementation much shallower and thus less likely to hook your laptop
off the desk but it's capable of fast charging it up
to 96 Watts depending on which charger you end up with what's more the number
one complaint people had about magsafe that the cable frayed over time I've had
it happen that's been largely addressed here thanks not only to a much more
Supple braided cable but also the fact that it's a detachable type c connector
on the other end mind you apple is still
charging 50 for a mere six foot replacement but that's still cheaper and
less wasteful than a new power adapter besides you can always charge via type c
if you want you just won't get fast training but
um there's one thing here that has never
been on any Apple notebook or to my knowledge any previous notebook
the notch it looks a smidge larger than the notch
on my iPhone 11 Pro Max and inside is a
single 1080p webcam
Apple's justification for The Notches size on iPhones is that they need the
extra space to house face ID sensors and these laptops don't have face ID maybe
the true depth sensors are too thick for the housing maybe smaller sensors were
expected to be available but the Silicon shorter to laid them why then did Apple
not wait for the next Generation it just
feels like they planned for it realistic last minute crap we can't make it work
and then thought it ship it as it is mind you the webcam in that Notch is
quite good albeit marred with a skin
smoothing algorithm that I can't find a way to turn off it takes effect both in
photo booth and QuickTime still the image is otherwise quite sharp around
the edges with a little tweaking I think it could actually be one of the better
webcams integrated into a laptop it's certainly far better even now than Dells
and how about that microphone away not too shabby if you ask me the speakers
though Apple says they've got four counter firing woofers and two tweeters
and quite frankly it sounds so much
better than anything else I've heard in a laptop that it's not even close
sorry XPS 15 you sound like trash by
comparison Apple's definitely tuned to these speakers with a sweet spot in mind
and that sweet spot seems to be sitting at a desk when you're in that sweet spot
the frequency response is at its best and stereo Imaging is almost like you've
got widely separated speakers I almost wish we had a binaural
recording rig so I could show you
I can show you the display though this
this is beautiful it reminds me of a TV at home with its 2000 local dimming
zones and 1600 nits Peak brightness just crammed into a much smaller form factor
thanks to the mini LED backlight array that Apple calls xdr
the other big feature is the new 120 hertz adaptive refresh rate promotion
support that can go as low as 24 Hertz to save on battery life during an
activity Apple's way out ahead of Windows on this one way out thanks to having first baked
this into the iPad line several years ago
it's not quite 4K but apple has a
history of not targeting specific resolutions but rather specific pixel
densities and in that regard it's close to 4K and definitely retina from any
reasonable distance which is really all that matters day to day for
professionals a separate pixel matched external display for critical viewing is
common and can be hooked up via any one of the three DisplayPort enabled
Thunderbolt 4 ports or the full-size HDMI 2.0 Port which can handle up to 4K
60 with HDR HDMI 2.1 support for 120
hertz would have been nice on a top-of-the-line laptop like this but
honestly this wouldn't be too useful for non-gamers right now anyway unless
you're working with 8K for some reason 4K 60 is the most you're going to get
out of a typical projector or TV so it's just not a huge limiter now we don't
have the M1 Max Max in for testing yet but we can put the M1 Pro through its
Paces with some PC competition a surface laptop Studio an ASUS zephyrus G14 and
if those fail we've got our trusty GPU bench to show it what for starting with
good old cinemench we've got our first impressive showing our 10 core MacBook
Pro matches the zephyrus's top end ryzen 9 and the 8 core Stomps the surface
laptop Studio and the MacBook Pro 13-inch as well geekbench brings more
pain for Microsoft than even the zephyrus takes a beating from the 8 core
M1 Pro this time around handbrake and software encoding brings more good news
for apple with only our ryzen desktop outperforming the 10 core and h.264 and
the zevaris pulling a lead in the more complex and thread hungry h.265 encoder
when we turn on Hardware encoding why is this Macbook so slow
okay it looks like Apple's video toolbox
has some issues with the New Media engine right now so unfortunately these
results are unusable but I'm including them here because this is something you
might run into if you pick one of these puppies up compressor gives us a better
look at what the hardware encoding performance looks like and strangely it
seems like whatever Apple did with the media engine to add prores support
negatively affected h.265 in preference to h.264 which is a strange balance to
make but it's not a big difference either way it's just weird in Final Cut
both the new MacBooks put up numbers roughly double what the original M1
MacBook could which is largely down to the additional GPU cores and prores and
coding is almost three times faster than M1 thanks to that new media engine that
turned Apple's two thousand dollar afterburner card into Retro Tech videos
not everything people do with their Macs though so let's come back around to 3D
modeling with blender as of right now Apple silicon isn't natively supported
by blender but Apple has joined the blender Development Fund and provided
patches to enable metal going forward so stay tuned for that for now CPU random
performance isn't too shabby the 10 core M1 Pro beating out the zephyrus in both
the shorter BMW render and the sustained classroom render which is ridiculously
good Adobe Creative Cloud mostly runs in Rosetta as well and unfortunately that
means that either Puget bench will often crash or in the case of the few
available Apple silicon versions of these apps simply not work we do have
Photoshop numbers though and these shell very similar performance to the M1
perhaps because of Rosetta but also perhaps because of the lightly threaded
nature of the work what isn't lightly threaded is code compilation it's here
that M1 Pro comes back to dominance even the 8 core M1 Pro outperforms the best
mobile ryzen chip on the market and the 10 core is second only to the desktop
ryzen 9 5950x it's ridiculously impressive when
something like this happens kind of like our new water bottles at lttstore.com
you've got to see the new lids and colors and we can get 50 off a lid if
you bought one of the old ones now we need to talk games I I know I
know games aren't a Mac thing
I disagree but more importantly they're
a great way to visualize relative GPU horsepower unfortunately for us I'm not
aware of any game that takes advantage of Apple silicon that the ones that I
thought did merely run in a rosetta as a result turn times in Civilization 6 for
example are ludicrously long a good three times longer than the surface
laptop Studio and zephyrus this trend continues at CS go where it seems that
despite having double the GPU cores running in Rosetta is seriously
hampering the M1 Pro's performance potential although there is a market improvement over the standard M1 shadow
of the Tomb Raider meanwhile does come close to the RTX 3050 TI and our surface
laptop Studio and scales pretty linearly compared to the original M1 temperature
readings on the cores can get alarmingly high under sustained load although Those
sensors are buried inside the soc if we look at the integrated GPU clusters on
the same SOC we see far more manageable temperatures so these core temps are not
likely to be a major cause of concern strangely the fans never even got to Max
Speed I suppose I need to hit it with a bind CPU and GPU load to really get it
to scream get subscribed by the way because we'll be comparing every chassis
and soc's full thermal characteristics throughout the rest of the series and
you don't want to miss that this is just scratching the surface the main hotspot
is in the middle of the keyboard where we read somewhere from 46 to 48 degrees
on both models while the Palm rest area stays relatively cool in the low 30s
that's pretty similar across all the laptops we tested if a bit warmer on the
hotspot curiously ample has designed the cooling system so that hot air is
exhausting directly onto the lower corners of the screen where it's getting
as hot as 50 degrees or more which may be cause for concern over time my
recommendation to combat this is to manually set the fans to maximum if
you're doing a sustained all-core load by using TG Pro or another utility that
can manage the fan speeds that should keep air flowing and prevent heat from
concentrating in one small spot now we need to talk battery and to do this we
turn the 13-inch MacBooks display down to about a third brightness and matched
all the laptops up as best we could fired up this YouTube countdown clock
and cut the power not only did the zephyrus die hilariously quickly at just
under seven hours but the surface laptop Studio also ended up dying a little
early due to the GPU resetting part way in next to fall was the M1 MacBook Pro
at just under 22 and a half hours and the lower end M1 Pro shortly after that
and the 1016 well it kept going past the 24 hour mark
honestly the only reason I can think of that the lower end M1 Pro didn't hit the
same Milestone was horse was probably still logged in and I didn't notice ah
the joys of having to share still to say this is luminary battery
life would be underselling it especially in light of the machine's capabilities
like the most comparable overall performer is the zephyrus and it got
less than a third of that I need to see this thing's battery for myself pulling
it apart is the same process as with other recent Macs but now just two screw
types like my 2011 MacBook long in the back and short in the front now with
collars to prevent them from going too far pop two clips on the left and right the
panel slides right off now that is a pretty interior and it shows more of
what Apple's doing with that extra internal volume not only is there more
battery capacity along with pull tabs for safer user servicing but there's a
reasonably robust cooling solution and that battery no longer overlaps the
logic board either amazing what you can do with a little more volume huh while
we're under the hood I should mention that Wi-Fi is limited to two spatial
streams so Wireless AC AKA y55 will Top
out at 866 megabits per second this has been standard for MacBooks since 2019
and is one of the few design elements that Apple hasn't changed for the better
if I had to guess why not these Macs use broadcom Wi-Fi adapters while the ones
with 3x3 support were running on Morata chips that apple co-designed and branded
as universal scientific Industrial evidently those proved to either be too
costly too unreliable too power hungry or all of the above
if cost was a factor though Apple sure hasn't spared any for the Thunderbolt
because each of the USB type-c ports has its own Thunderbolt 4 controller Apple's
doing a lot right here there's the return to an SD card slot albeit without
SD Express support and we've got a high impedance headphone jack that while it
doesn't sound amazing is better able to drive higher end headphones than
previous gen Max what Apple hasn't
gotten right is the handling of the notch the mouse cursor going behind the
Notch and getting lost seems like such a colossal oversight next to the way that
the rounded Corners are handled on the display and this behavior isn't even
consistent if you've got menus open what's more the Notch's whole reason for
being that is to provide a menu bar above the regular 16x10 display area
that would otherwise just be bezel is by
default entirely removed if you use full screen mode
Apple why thankfully both of these issues can
be worked around by either turning off this setting or by choosing get info on
the app and checking scale to fit the letter option nobody should ever
want to use this the final issue I have is price starting at two thousand
dollars US for the 14 inch model it's not going to be for everybody and as
we've seen the base model falls behind in a few fundamental ways and of course
because the memory is part of the soc and storage is soldered to the
motherboard not only does that make future repairs more expensive you also
need to order what you think you'll need by the time you replace the laptop not
what you think you'll need today personally I wouldn't go lower than 32
gigabytes of memory to make a machine of this caliber last a while particularly
considering its unified memory that both the CPU and GPU need to share I also
wouldn't go higher than two terabytes of internal storage because you've got
Thunderbolt for high-speed expansion if you need it
that puts my sweet spot recommendation at about 2 900 U.S which is 200 more
expensive than a similar configuration for the surface laptop Studio at a
thousand dollars more expensive than the 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro albeit with
double the memory is it a thousand dollars more worth it you really need to
look at what tasks you do daily to see how long it'll take to recoup that cost
but what Apple has here What attracted me to my 2011 MacBook Pro in the first
place is a combination of power form
factor build quality display quality versatility and especially battery life
that while outclassed by less expensive machines than any one metric is not even
remotely matched in all still early days for Apple silicon and
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