Okay i made a mistake today i'm going to be telling you why i'm
probably going to be returning my m1 max macbook pro back to apple
Hi it's Matt here, so that's right today I want to talk to you why i'm potentially going to be
returning back my macbook pro with an m1 max chipset inside it now straight away I do want to
say this that this 16 inch macbook pro with that m1 max inside it there's absolutely nothing wrong
with it it is an absolute dream to live with and it's working exactly the way it should do so i'm
not returning it because it's faulty or things are just not working on it everything works exactly
the way it should but the thing is with this macbook pro i configured it with a 32 core gpu
32 gigabytes around and a 2 terabyte hard drive now straight away i will point out that the hard
drive sort of space what you pick with any of these macbooks won't really affect the
performance at all there's nothing really in it they're basically the same sort of storage or just
more of it and the speeds are all around about the same on all the macbook pros that you pick from
and that includes getting yourself say an m1 pro or an m1 max there's nothing really in it
on the actual built-in storage but like i said i decided to pick out the m1 max the maximum
sort of chips that you could get but the lowest amount of ram was 32 gigabytes of ram and living
with this macbook pro over the last sort of few days and everything has been absolutely superb
and brilliant i've created lots of videos on this macbook pro i fit around in photoshop i've had
loads of chrome tabs open and things like this and it's been an absolute dream to live with so you're
probably wondering why am i moaning then and why am i sending this back well it lies right here and
it's to do with this macbook pro i got here now this is the 14 inch macbook pro with an m1 pro
inside it now the thing is with the chipset inside this one it is that 10 core cpu what
you get not the eight core baseline and it's also got the 16 cores of gpus inside it and i've also
got inside this 16 gigabytes of ram and that is the baseline 16-inch macbook pro that you can pick
and you can see that right here and as you can see the differences between the m1 max and also the m1
pro there's a thousand dollar difference and the only main changes you're actually getting in this
thousand dollars is that m1 max and you're getting those additional cores inside it on top of that
as well you're also getting double the amount of storage so from 512 gigabytes to one terabyte and
you're also getting double the amount of ram 32 gigabytes and to be deadly honest when i've been
exporting say videos on this m1 pro and on this m1 max there hasn't really been much in it for me
in the sense of that it is far faster compared to say the old m1 macbook pro that i've got and also
my older intel i9 16-inch macbook pro it leaps and bounds better than that but for me it's just not
overall a big kind of upgrade from the m1 pro to the m1 max for my needs now generally what
i do when i'm kind of exporting a video and this is where my macbook pros are at the absolute max
i'm normally fiddling around doing something in photoshop normally probably making the thumbnail
for the video that i'm uploading or exporting to say go on youtube also at the same time as well at
this time i probably already have say five to ten tabs of chrome open and say on my 16 inch macbook
pro with that intel i9 that i have and that only has got 16 gigabytes of ram it struggles it gets
super hot the fans are wearing like anything and it just can't cope with that now on this m1 pro
macbook pro that i have right here the 14 inch i've been doing a very similar scenario over the
last sort of two weeks now since i've had this macbook pro and generally it's not broken sweat
even the fans haven't really properly kicked in they have word a little bit but they're not going
full pelt like my old intel i9 yet when i switch over to my m1 max and i do exactly the same thing
photoshop's open video is exporting in final cut pro and also at the same time having chrome open
on multiple tabs really i'm not noticing any differences between both these machine with the
m1 pro and the m1 max and that's what's making me think well you know do i really even need the m1
max if the m1 pro is coping yet you can see like on these benchmarks here when i'm doing kind of
an export in heaven and also it's 264 yes the m1 max is faster and i'm not going to deny that
but you've got to remember it costs a thousand dollars more to have this macbook pro compared to
the baseline 16-inch macbook pro what's the same chipset what's inside this 14-inch macbook pro
cool that was a mouthful to say but you get the point it's the same chipset what's inside this
what's in the baseline 16-inch macbook pro and it's getting me think that you know do i even need
this m1 max i probably don't i'm not going to push this beyond its boundaries now a lot of
you are probably going to say well you're only going to get the full potential when you hit 64
gigabytes of ram inside this machine well for me i need i don't think i will like i said i
used to have the 16 gigabytes of ram in my intel machine and it was struggling with that ddr4 ram
whereas the 16 gigabytes of ram was in this m1 pro machine that you see right here it doesn't
even use up say half the amount of the ram inside that for those tasks just talking about so you can
imagine it only uses about quarter amount of the ram was allocated inside this m1 max again for me
it's just no use actually having this m1 max now again don't get me wrong my famous words there m1
max is a brilliant thing to have and to say that i've got that and for future proofing it's there
but generally speaking i do 4k exports right now i don't think i'm going to be upgrading to an
8k camera anytime soon and that's the other thing as well to export in 8k all of you guys right now
your phones what you're most likely watching this on or say your laptops or your macbooks
or even your tvs are most likely 4k resolution or below so generally speaking 4k 8k you're not
really going to see the benefits out there now don't get me wrong i know there are 8k monitors
i know there are 8k tvs but they're just starting to come in and the technology is still reasonably
new out there and most 8k tvs are monitored just upscale 1080p and 4k because there isn't real true
8k footage out there and no one is tapping on my shoulder right now to make them 8k footage and i
don't think they will be anytime into the future by the time i got rid of my macbook pro with that
m1 pro inside it if i kept this one until the next macbook pro that comes out and most likely as we
all know the next macbook pro will have even more superior baseline kind of m2 pro chipset
inside or m3 pro chipset inside it that you know will run around circles around the m1 pro
and even the m1 max so based on those factors right now i cannot see a need to upgrade to m1 max
unless you guys can actually see a reason and i'd love to know in the comments below now whilst i'm
rambling on about these macbook pros something else i'd like to ramble on about is the giveaway
we're doing on this channel for this it is for an iphone 13 pro max in sierra blue 128 gigabyte
model and i'm going to be giving away this iphone 13 to one lucky subscriber when we get over 300
000 subscribers we are almost there now i think we've only got around about 19 000 subscribers to
get to at the time of making this video so we are super duper close like i said it's going to be an
international giveaway and i'm going to be giving away to unlucky subscriber and all i want to know
from you guys and your possibility to get your hands on this iphone 13 and that is to write down
in the comments below what gear you're planning to buy within the next year what is apple gear or any
other technology gear write down the comments below and when we get over 300 000 subscribers
i'll be reviewing who the winner is of this iphone 13 pro max so make sure you subscribe to
the channel and hit that notification bell because i'll be creating a video at that time announcing
who the winner is now quickly i just also want to quickly mention that there are some scammers and
some spammers out there who are using my face as their profile picture pretending they're me and
basically saying you've won a prize it is not me they're scammers ignore them or report them
i'll try my best to delete them off the channel as soon as i can but yeah just ignore them
like i said i will only be revealing the winner when we get over 300 000 subscribers in a video
well let's go on to a bit more about my rant of why i won't be keeping this m1 max macbook pro
i think if i was a person who was using lightroom or using more intensive ram tasks then possibly i
might keep this m1 max but for what i need it for and for most video creators out there this is my
point i'm trying to get across there isn't much point getting this machine especially at the cost
of a thousand us dollars yes there are more decoders in this there's two video decoders
instead of one in the m1 pro yes there's more gpu cores yes you know if you play games on
the macbook i don't know why you do that yes the frames per seconds are going to be higher
but personally i don't play games on the macbook pro really and it's not really promoted for that
if you're spending all that money um you know on the m1 max just for gaming i think you're better
off buying yourself a gaming laptop or gaming pc personally i won't bother you know that's me
actually putting apple down there but personally i would actually recommend not doing that
but you get the idea do not buy it for that reason but if you are going to be using it for kind of
lightroom or kind of say like a blender i've also heard also uses a lot of the intensive bits and
pieces inside and also some high high graphical kind of apps yeah maybe m1 max is for you
but for me like i said i'm more inclined to return this m1 max back to apple and not keep it
and actually what i probably will do is i'll keep this m1 pro 14 inch macbook pro but i'm probably
actually going to buy myself an m1 pro 16 inch macbook pro with 16 gigabytes of ram inside it
because this machine has been absolutely superb but from my point of view i prefer 16 inch screens
and for doing things like final cut it's easier for me to do that on that larger kind of screen
so call me a sucker that i'm going to return this and get myself say a 16 inch version of
this one what you see right here but that's just me and that's just my preference what do you guys
think do you think i should return this m1 max and get an m1 pro instead in the 16-inch form
let me know in the comments below also at the same time guys it's time to wrap up this video
so i'd love to know your thoughts below in the comments of like what i've just asked there but
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