MacBook Pro 2021 M1 Max: The Laptop To Beat in 2021/2022.

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Great overall review.

[@ChristianWheel]

Thanks for watching!

[@Phaedarus]

One category you left out is that the new Macbook Pros may not do better than PC is with 3D. Most 3D apps prefer Nvidia's CUDA; it's essentially what killed the Mac Pro trash cans. Maxon's Cinema4D might be the only one to truly transition fully over to the Metal framework as they have a higher proportion of Mac users than other 3D titles. Maya, Zbrush, Houdini, Marvelous Designer, CAD programs and even Substance may not see much benefit in the short term. Nvidia will likely do all it can to stall Apple's progress in this area by hyping RTX as much as they can. The other real issue here is that hardware is still dependent on Apple releasing drivers. Devices like the HTC Hive VR headset still do not have proper Apple drivers and that's probably because Apple has competing hardware of its own. This is bad as it reduces consumer choice. Mac Pro users were particularly starved of having access to Nvidia drivers simply because Apple has a poor relationship with the company. Finally, regarding games. Apple will eventually cut support for Rosetta 2, meaning a lot of games will simply be unplayable. So it's not only future games mac users will be losing out on but classic titles as well. You can certainly forget about indie developer working on Mac titles as they would need additional resources to make a mac version that is optimized for metal. Yes, they can use Unreal and Unity that may be crossplatform but you'd still need to deal with other nuances such as different network protocols and the specific quirks of metal. This is going to be like the PPC days when Mac gamers were second class citizens. The M1 Mac Pros are rumoured to be four times faster than the Macbook Pros but as beastly as they are, they will likely be priced out of most creative's budgets. In a way, Mac Pros are really more like Lamborghini's. They are showcases of the most powerful hardware available but priced to the moon as status symbols if not a simple token effort by Apple to demonstrate that they still make hardware in America.

[@ChristianWheel]

I agree with everything here except I can't make many, if any claims about the GPU and its 3D performance as right now there really isn't a good way to benchmark it that's cross-platform. Drivers are more for the hardware developer themselves to create, it's Nvidia's prerogative to create compatible drivers for Mac, and I have no doubt they would if they felt there was enough demand from customers to justify the investment. But at the moment they're selling every unit they can manufacture even without Mac drivers so they're not likely to go that route anytime soon. Since I wrote and filmed this, a number of high profile tech firms (including Reddit, Uber, Shopify, Twitter) announced that they are deploying the new MacBook Pros to their development/engineering teams due to the faster compile times. I don't think we've ever seen a specific model system so sought after by specifically developers, and it stands to reason that a wider adoption of the Apple Silicon will result in far more compatible versions of programs rolling out far more quickly. A year from now this would be fun to revisit, to see just how much this hardware has sparked the demand for compatible software to run on it. Thanks for watching my video and sharing your insights. Cheers!

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Interesting. I've picked up two identical units of these MacBooks so far and the first one (which this review is based on) did not come with the magsafe charging cable. Apparently it was supposed to, the second one did. Looks like a packaging error in the first unit.