You SHOULD NOT Buy the M3 Mac for Music - Here’s why

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[@ColtCapperrune]

What computer are you using?? Is it powerful enough??

[@Salmon260]

There is one very important thing to remember: on all Apple Silicone Macs accept the Mac Studio and the Mac Pro, the SSD is soldered onto the motherboard, once the SSD dies on you get a black screen and if you don't have 3 year Apple Care warranty you will end up with pile of aluminium on your hands, the good old days were you had the possibility of replacing a hard drive on your Apple computer are over, so I encourage you, you to edit music, movies and pictures on an external hard drive to preserve your internal SSD.

[@larswillsen]

Colt our hero ... I managed everything without any problems on a Mini Mac M1 .. stable, no nonsense .. and for the first time after I started re-recording after 30+ tears I relesed a ciuntry track this morning :-)

[@ReedRobins]

Thanks for the vid, I've got the Mac Studio Max M1 with a ram upgrade to 64. It's doing me right!

[@officialmaar]

I needed this!!

[@thesonicsolution1976]

The M1 Max is only a year and a half old and can be purchased through apple refurb. Especially if you are moving up from an intel machine, the gains are enormous. Outside of just wanting to have the latest and greatest, the M1 Max chip is an absolute beast of a machine for audio.

[@LiamHaleMusic]

I just bought 500 ukuleles instead

[@Vela_Isai]

Thank you for this video colt. I very informative. I enjoy watching all your videos. You have inspired me in many ways. Thanks mate👏

[@johnplainsong9769]

You can get an M1 Mac Mini for around $350 used now. It still packs enough punch for most home studios and I'm having no issues. I'm in the process of upgrading from a late 2015 maxed-out iMac 27" Retina, and am gutting the iMac to use the 5K display via a $100 display controller.

[@promozo]

I have a very old imac for production and need to upgrade, I like the idea of the M3 Macbook pro for portability plus being able to hook up to a monitor for in studio... I use Ableton and a ton of plug ins. It's gotta be worth the upgrade? What do you reckon?

[@JamesButcher]

good advice and straight to the point - awesome vid as always Colt!

[@this_is_jmdub]

Thank you for the insight! At what do you run your buffer size usually?

[@LTDusersince99]

I have an 2013 i7 macbook pro, and apart from fan running loud with Ableton. It's strong enough already, but getting sign of age and starting to behave strangely on other aspect of the computer. But the reason I will have to go to M3 Macbook is because that's what's being sold new with a french Keyboard here in Canada, and as a sound designer for theatre shows and sometimes being part of the show in live situation too, I need to be in a lot of different places. But for a home studio. I agree with you for the choice you do :)

[@eyeque7]

I have your recommendation - M2 pro Mac mini, it’s absolutely perfect for producing songs. 16gb with 512 storage with external 2tb SSD. Runs like a dream.

[@devicefuldb5097]

Based on my research when I bought the M1 Ultra Studio, it was better for large audio project verses the Max, which was better for Graphics Dev. Since I got it, about a year ago, my CPU yawns at huge Logic projects (that would crash my Mac Pro) with lots of virtual instruments and plugins. I do notice that standard large projects when mature, use a ton of Ram if available. I got 128GB of ram because you can't upgrade this thing, and a normal mature project is using 20+GB of it. So, it's much better to have it, IMO. Personally, for the cost of these Macs, we need to get a good long run time out of them. I'm talking at least 7 years or more, which I did get out of my last Mac Pro.

[@LordDavidYoung]

I just updated my studio from an intel 2019 Mac to the m1 ultra Mac Studio. B&H has a deal on them that is almost $3000 off. Also m1 ultra and m2 ultra are identical to protools since PT can’t use the efficiency cores. Save the money, and get a killer machine for a steal.

[@smokey5100]

Hi there, great video! I'm about to purchase a new Mac Studio and I plan on using large sample libraries as well as mixing large projects. If you had a choice would you go with a M1 Max (10 core CPU/32 core GPU) refurbished for $2600 or a new M2 Max (12 core/30 core GPU) for $2999? I'm a ProTools & NI Maschine user. I would also equipt either with 64 gb ram plus 2tb of SSD storage.

[@mitzthegamer]

Really nice video , I am looking to switch to Mac . I do use a lot of tracks and a lot of plugins . Will the Mac Studio M2 Max 32gb unified memory and 512 gb be enough for that and video editing ? And I can add an external ssd for more storage ? Or should I go for a M2 Ultra ?

[@billyhughes9776]

Excellent vid -- useful info. Thanks!

[@Zukaarimoto]

I have a regular M1 Mac Mini but I’m thinking about having a mobile set up. I although I would like a M3 Max, the Pro should be good enough for mobile use. I think a Max would definitely be good for a home studio set up. Eventually I’ll get there down the line. Good video. Gave me some things to consider.