The only problem is Apple upgrade costs for things like storage and memory are way too overpriced. They don't make sense.

This is just mathematical lecture. I wish this could just work on any mesh in my scene and not dynamically create simple shapes from nodes.

lets see the ultra chip performance once the studio gets released

Thank goodness, now my epic tank can scour the planes of future antarctica with the great penguin army

Networked Mac mini hmm

These are going to get insane in next couple years….wow

Pardon my ignorance. Is m4 and max version good for high poly sculpting without view port delay?

Thank you so much for this !!

Do you think the normal Pro Max version is enough for C4D or is it worth to switch bigger unified memory version ?

This is amazing! Thanks so much for sharing.

Thanks for the grat tutorial :) ... but is it possible to export/import a audiovisualizer? I get an error message in Blender after importing the .mdd on my object. I created a audiovisualizer with geo nodes. The Error says Python: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\iamxa\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\4.3\extensions\blender_org ewtek_mdd_format\__init__.py", line 62, in execute return import_mdd.load(context, **keywords) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\iamxa\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\4.3\extensions\blender_org ewtek_mdd_format\import_mdd.py", line 91, in load obj_update_frame(file, scene, obj, frame_start, i, frame_step) File "C:\Users\iamxa\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\4.3\extensions\blender_org ewtek_mdd_format\import_mdd.py", line 44, in obj_update_frame v.co[:] = unpack('>3f', file.read(12)) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ struct.error: unpack requires a buffer of 12 bytes Thanks if advance

I have been waiting for this moment for 20 years... when Apple becomes the preferrabel choice for 3D artists.

For portability and battery, the MacBook Pro m4 max seems like a good choice over a ball burning windows laptop until the PC arm versions catch up... ?

Amazing tutorial. Big thank you for this, Robbie!

So you used optimal settings for the apple hardware but not Optix for the RTX cards? Seems like intentional bias or ignorance to me. Either way the results are useless as an actual point of comparison.

Great video Robbie! And I'm sure you'd get a slightly higher score if you tested the unbinned M4 MAX variant 16-core CPU, 40-core GPU. Now that the 5090 was announced, Apple will have to catch up again in its next chip release.

I can't wait to try this. I specialize in modelling NSFW stuff and think there will be a lot of use-cases for pressing my models up against glass planes and objects.

9 mins is long? 😅😅I'm rendering a simple syringe. 170 frames at 30fps. Sample rate is 512. It's now on frame 6. It took me about 4 hours to get here. At this point, I'm going to cancel and forget about it.

do update fot strix halo and rtx 5000

Try linux next

the rtx cards are desktop right?

I once did this effect practically,by overlaying real photos and compositing everything in after effects, and I can that this is really amazing, it will you much more time to build interesting canvas and concepts without worrying about stabilising, tracking etc Nice work.

You are the master!

Could I make this butterfly but flying in specific direction?

Average Blender Beginner tutorial be like

Damn that's impressive considering it's using a fraction of the desktop's PC power. Hope the other Windows laptops catch up.

Hi, I'm considering betweet M1 Max 64 GB (used) and the M4 base model due to the similar pricing in my country. Which one is better for 3D and Game Development?

Very tempted tbh to drop on a m4 or m5 studio at some point. I love the silent operation of my M1 Pro MacBook and when I have to boot up the pc to do anything it’s so annoying. The only thing I really need my main pc for now is games that don’t exists on Mac. Given how good the m4 max is the studio version should throttle never because better airflow and the ultra should be getting very close to 4090 desktop now, assuming these results are consistent across more complexly lit scenes

I really think we should consider that the M4 can do this unplugged. This is the biggest reason I am switching: I am no longer shackled to a 3-pong outlet and don't have to suffer huge frame drops like I have with my 4080 laptop unplugged.

How did you only select the crystals from the floor? Are they part of the same mesh?

How can I get two effecting objects? So in this video, they used an empty sphere; how do I set up multiple spheres or a line with points on it to effect the grid?

Perfectly shaped poopy

what about m4 pro on mac mini? not the base m4. curious

Brooo wtf the M4 max is an absolute beast. Cannot wait for Mac Studio

3:50 you can shift + n and recalculate inside here i think

Improper graphs scale misleads the viewer, and reminds me some shadow marketing. Good review anyway

It's been a year, so I hope you will see my comment. Is there a way to export this thing to key shapes? I'm struggle, I saw only very basic plane cloth simulation export tut, but it wasn't based on geo nodes, just a plane hitting the table surface with the gravity turned on. I want to export latter inflation that also based on geo nodes plus cloth simulation, but when I try to export it as MDD file it doesn't work. thanks a lot anyways

I got a mac mini m4 max maxed out, 64 ram. I haven't don any test yet. So far I can run 8 4K videos with no problem. I do live events.

This is a great comparison even for me as a gamer who owns a 3080 desktop. Comparability issues mean I’ll stick with windows but just ordered an M4 MBP 14 for just about everything else.

For the renders the results are impressive! But for the generalist 3D machine the Mac Mini M4 Pro are good? I need a new machine and thinking in the M4Pro Mac Mini...

If I wanted to put this into a scriptableobject what vars will I need?

Which m4 pro or m4 max chip was used? How many GPU cores? Also your presentation is accidentally very biased. Render times should be presented as bars with length in seconds. It looks like m4 pro is a hairline behind the nvidia, but in reality it is 33% slower. Also, to be fair you should compare macbook to a windows laptop. Thanks for doing the comparison - it has shed some light on the matter. I kind of have hard time believing that m4 max beat 3080 desktop by that margin, but who knows.

Perfect tutorial! The only thing I would like to ask is, once you are happy with the shape and colors, how do you convert the object to a mesh that can be used in other projects?

I just ordered an M4 Max last week, for After Effects and Blender.

Is Optix enabled for the Nvidia renders?

When you factor in how it beat the 3080 and compare the power usage it's insane.

ok so now we should check the surface of the object for weaker sections and push the volume being removed at the boundary location into the weaker areas of the object right? If all areas of the surface are equally strong then its equally distributed, except maybe right around where its pressing up against the boundary, maybe a tiny bit of priority of the volume goes there?

I use MAC for my 9-5 job. Our whole design ecosystem is MAC but I do 3D modeling & sculpting as a hobby. My iMac is 5yo now and running super slow so I've been looking at the Mac Mini M4 Pro. Its probably the best bet for what I do professionally and as a hobby. Thanks for this video. Stats look like double the time as a high-end PC but way faster than what I'm using now.

😊How balloon increase with upper layer increase 😊

I have the 40 core M3 Max and this M4 Max with 32 cores performs the same, seems like the 40 Core M4 Max might have even better performance