okay i'm thinking of returning my mac studio and i want to give you three reasons why
now the first thing i want to say is i've absolutely loved my time with this mac studio
i cannot actually fault the mac studio itself in the sense of that it is a great machine and for
loads of people out there it is absolutely superb but it's just not for me and i want to explain why
and why a lot of you guys out there i don't want you to make the same mistake so the first
reason why i'm thinking of returning this mac studio is to do with its performance
now this mac studio is a complete and utter powerhouse and it's absolutely incredible
in like chucking videos at it or doing editing of let's say photos or even doing 3d rendering
i've done a bit on this in blender it's absolutely incredible it can chew up anything you throw at it
it doesn't care and to be honest i've never even heard the fans even kick in on this machine apart
from when i do the benchmark to really really test this out and talk about benchmarks have a look at
the benchmarks i have right here so for cpu i'm comparing those 20 cpu cores in the m1 ultra to
the likes of the m1 pro and the m1 max will also have 10 cores inside them i'm not comparing this
to the binned m1 pro machine i'm comparing this to the 10 core versions and the cpus
in the m1 pro and the m1 max are identical not the gpu we also have a macbook pro i7 from 2019
and the 15 inch model and also the same again the 2018 version of the cpu in an i7 and you're
probably wondering why they're inside this chart and it'll come very clear very shortly
but looking at the chart for single core for these intel macbook pros you can actually see
there's a 14 difference in the geekbench scoring here so basically that 2019 machine has a 14
more powerful chipset inside it in just single core performance but then when we jump up over
to the brand new apple silicon with the m1 max and the m1 ultra and to be honest the m1 pro and also
just the m1 their single core score is actually the same across the board for the performance core
and also the efficiency cores inside them there's just more of them in each different machine what
you'll look at in a second for the multi-core score but as you can see here m1 gives you 65
more power than the likes of the most powerful last intel i7 macbook pro and as you can see
the difference between m1 ultra and m1 pro m1 max is only one percent there's no difference
at all really you're not really going to tell but looking at multi-core score this is where things
change quite a bit now funnily enough those intel macbook pros there's only 11 difference between
both of them in multi-core performance i just want to say that again there's only 11 percent and for
lots of you guys out there if you bought yourself a 2018 macbook pro there was absolutely no point
updating to a 2019 model just to get yourself 10 more power there's nothing really in it but we've
had apple silicon come along and we have the likes of the m1 pro and the m1 max and you can see there
is a huge difference when this came along we have got a 132 difference to the 2019 macbook pro i7
that is mind boggling super jump in speed and if you're doing things like video editing fiddling
around with photos fiddling around with 3d files you're going to see a massive difference with m1
pro and m1 max compared to the likes of that intel i7 with the macbook pro whereas though if you had
the older 2018 macbook pro and the 2019 macbook pro when you edit videos and things like this
you're probably not going to see much difference at all but there again look at the m1 ultra the m1
ultra is basically double of what we get with m1 pro and m1 max in multi-core and to be honest that
makes complete sense because basically m1 ultra is two m1 maxes stitched together so it's giving
basically double the performance so no wonder it's 96 percent more powerful now geekbench scores are
really good to look at and they're really amazing with benchmarking and you can see that there's
massive differences for getting an m1 ultra over an m1 max but when you're using just say your mac
for daily tasks and even for me i do videos almost every day as you know from my channel if you are a
person who watches my videos quite regularly but is m1 ultra a little bit overboard for my needs
well let me show you something here i did a final cut pro export of an eight minute video
on the likes of all four of these chipsets that i've been talking about and from this chart lower
means better as you can see but starting with the two macbook pros right at the top of this chart
can you see the difference here the first macbook pro managed to export this 4k video in 16 minutes
22 seconds but then the 2019 machine managed to export the video in 15 minutes 56 seconds
we're talking about 26 seconds difference here so you can see there's no point upgrading or there
was no point upgrading from a 2018 macbook pro to a 2019 macbook pro for the sake of
26 seconds 26 seconds is absolutely nothing and this is where i want to go now with the m1 pro
m1 max and also the m1 ultra again looking at the chart here the difference between just m1 pro
to that 2019 macbook pro with the i7 inside it there is a huge huge difference in the export time
remember it took 15 minutes 56 seconds on the macbook pro with the i7 but with the m1 pro
it actually took 7 minutes 31 seconds and that is basically half the time that is a massive massive
difference in exporting for getting the m1 pro and it's absolutely unbelievable
but then let's have a look at m1 max with m1 max it does have an additional video decoder inside it
but the actual export on that only took six minutes eight seconds and to be honest that's only
around about 50 seconds faster again 50 seconds it's not really a lot in it but having a look
at the m1 ultra again let's compare that to the m1 max the m1 ultra actually exported this video
on my mac studio in four minutes 55 seconds that's basically one minute 15 seconds quicker
than the m1 max but the thing is what you've got to remember is the m1 max mac studio comes in at
two thousand dollars but the m1 ultra model starts at four thousand dollars for the sake of
one minute 15 seconds to export a video is the m1 ultra truly worth it in my opinion personally i
don't really think it is and this leads me nicely on to reason number two of why i want to send the
mac studio backs with an m1 ultra inside it for me i have a macbook pro m1 max with a 32 core gpu
inside it the m1 ultra that you're seeing right here is actually the 64 core gpu option and that's
the problem i'm trying to get at here for the sake of that time difference i can't really justify for
one minute 15 seconds to actually pick an m1 ultra and pay that much more money over this
it's so much overkill for me oh yeah i save myself one minute 15 seconds every time i export a video
every other day or every day but really is that really truly worth paying that much more money
for it i don't really think it is so again maybe it was a mistake of mine maybe i shouldn't have
got an m1 ultra for my needs as a video creator and like i said i've even done things in blender
and i've also do things in photoshop as well and do loads and loads of layers and yet my macbook
pro what i've had with the m1 max has been chewing its way through this with no problems whatsoever
the fan i don't think i've even heard it properly kick in since i did benchmarks test when i first
got it it can easily handle anything you throw at air so again m1 ultra i think it's a little bit
overkill so as you can see that is the second reason why i'm considering returning my m1
ultra mac studio however one thing i'm definitely not considering is changing the giveaway that i am
doing on this channel right now so right now i'm doing a giveaway on this channel for this this is
an iphone 13 pro max in silver white and i'm going to be giving it away to one lucky subscriber when
we get over 350 000 subscribers and if you look at the subscriber account it's not that far away
at all and all i want to know from you guys to be in the chance to get your hands on this iphone 13
pro max is write down in the comments below of what apple gear you're planning to buy in 2022
what technology gear you want to get in 2022 put it down into the comments below and when we get
over 350 000 subscribers i'll be announcing who the winner is of this iphone 13 pro max in a video
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because you won't want to miss that notification for that video with that said there are a lot of
scammers and spammers out there some of them even impersonating me and telling you to watch at them
or telegram them told you you've won the giveaway it is not me at all ignore these users completely
or report them like i said i'll be announcing the winner only when we get over 350 000 subscribers
and it'll be done by a video on this channel with that out of the way let's go back to the video so
then the final reason reason number three why i'm returning the mac studio or considering
to return it and that simply is my macbook pro with the m1 max that i've got inside it so half
the time i actually dock my macbook pro as you can see here and then i use an external monitor
keyboard and mouse and do a lot of my editing on a desk and it's really really useful to have this
and to be honest that's another reason why i don't think i need a mac studio my macbook pro can just
be slick can just be closed docked and i can use it like a desktop and in fact that's another good
reason why possibly to actually not get a mac studio and instead maybe even get yourself say
a 14 inch macbook pro with an m1 max inside air it costs around about 900 more as you can see here to
get yourself a 14 inch macbook pro with m1 max inside it and to be deadly honest i think this
is totally and utterly worth it especially in the likes that say if you got yourself the mac studio
and then you decided to get yourself the brand new display that's out there yeah it's going to cost
yourself quite a bit of money it's going gonna cost you one thousand six hundred dollars more
where you can actually get the display for just nine hundred dollars more yep it's 14 inch but you
can plug up another monitor of your choice but yet you're still going to be getting that exact same
performance of the likes of say an m1 max what you can get inside a mac studio right now it's
the identical chip and as i've said already i've never really heard my fans were up in my m1 max
macbook pro by doing 3d rendering video editing and also doing photoshop it can chew its way
easily through it and i'm sure it will be able to chew through it for many many years to come
so in conclusion what can we take away from this video well to be deadly honest the mac studio is a
great device and m1 ultra is super super powerful there's no denying that but in the grand scheme
of things as i've shown in those sort of scoring there and using like final cut pro and exporting
it's not really worth paying that extra money to have an m1 ultra and then on top of that as
well even the m1 max entry level mac studio it is really really good and it costs two thousand
dollars but for the sake of nine hundred dollars more you could get yourself the likes of a 14-inch
macbook pro with an identical chip what's inside this and then hook up a monitor and keyboard and
mouse and use it as a desktop and also have it as a macbook as a laptop at the same time was really
really worth it but there again at the same time i do understand why it exists because so many people
do not like to have a laptop they love to work at a desk love to have extra ports but there again
you know i could argue you could buy yourself hubs for the likes of say your macbook pro so
from my point of view for my usage i don't think i need this m1 ultra mac studio anymore and most
likely i believe i'm going to return it back to apple and i'm going to stick with my macbook pro
do you think i'm making the wrong decision let me know in the comments below
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