Not a huge difference there.
And in my opinion, I don't know if it's really worth paying the
additional money
What is going on, everybody?
It's Mike.
Welcome back to the Channel.
I'm super glad that you were with me today because we are
unboxing the New Mac Studio.
This is the M1 ultra complete, complete overkill for what
I need, but I am really interested in it.
More so from the fact that I know if I open it, I'm going
to keep it.
But I don't know.
I really want to unbox I and see what it's like and see what
we're going to be like to edit this video.
So let's get on with the unboxing.
This is going to be a purchase I know I regret because I'm
going to want to keep it.
This is the 64 gigabytes of unified memory, one terabyte
SSD with the M1 ultra.
So this is the $3999 price point for the M1 Ultra
in Mac studio.
Now we see here it's got the same fabric handle that we saw
on the studio display and on the Pro Display XDR.
Really nice here.
We're going open this up.
That's a great sound, don't you think?
Wow.
That's pretty neat.
You have this very intuitive box design where all you do is
push out,
pull the sides open, pull the top up and out comes.
Oh, my gosh, this is so heavy.
Oh, my gosh.
This is so heavy.
I did not expect it to weigh this much.
It is so heavy.
Wow.
All right, let's put this down here for a second.
Oh, my gosh, that is so heavy.
You have this braided power cable,
which is obviously removable.
What else do we have here?
And we have some documentation here.
But that looks just to be about it.
This is where your money went.
This is your money saying goodbye.
So we have these two kind of quick start guide and we have
one large
c'mon.
One large Apple sticker.
It's bigger than that.
So very cool.
So the reason why I'm saying I'm going to regret this is
because I have a brand new 2021 MacBook Pro 16 inch with
M1 Max.
I this is like complete overkill.
I don't edit in 8K footage or I don't shoot 8K anything.
Everything I shoot here's 4K even though it is ProRes,
but still there shouldn't necessarily be that big of a
deal with this.
I can't believe how heavy this is.
All right.
See, this weighs
3462 grams.
7-pounds, ten ounces for the Mac studio with M1 Ultra.
That's the beefcake.
So let me give you a couple of observations for me to share.
As someone who is coming from a 2021 16-inch MacBook Pro
with M1 Max.
Now this M1 Max, ten core CPU, 32 core GPU and it has 32 gigs
of unified memory.
Because of the way that Apple has optimized process,
since they are the people that created it.
It runs very smooth on any Mac, not just the Mac story
or the Mac pro.
It runs very smooth, but because the amount of RAM
that I have in the Mac Studio, 64 gigs, it really is
effortless in my assessment.
I think that's the biggest difference here is how much ram
that this device has 32 gigs versus 64.
And that's probably my lesson learned.
If I were to buy another computer, I would buy
something that has more RAM than 32 gigs.
It really helps Final Cut Pro run very smoothly, really.
It's buttery smooth.
I'm able to add adjustment layers,
color correction, video graphics on this,
and there's really no hiccups, no type of slowdowns whatsoever
with 64 gigs.
And you know, really my timelines are, you know,
they're 4K.
I have color correction, I have color balance, I have some
lights on there and they're usually very heavy in
terms of graphics.
But this really helped me from a video editing standpoint.
Now, in comparison to the MacBook Pro, it's a little
bit sometimes, you know, you see that hiccup, you feel
it as someone who edits video with it or when you're using
any program, actually, there's a little bit of
a hang up.
It's like a split second.
You go out, what's going on here?
So that is the biggest difference in my opinion.
Now I can tell you I was able to render the unboxing clip
that I had here on the Mac Studio in 15 seconds in
comparison to, I think 19 seconds with the MacBook Pro.
Not a huge difference there.
And in my opinion, I don't know if it's really worth paying the
additional money, $4,000 for that type of savings.
Now, obviously, if you do it every day, you know,
there's some compound there, but for me, it's not
necessarily a big difference.
Additionally, I was able to do several other tests using both
the MacBook Pro and the Mac Studio and final cut,
which after carried into kind of a big asterisk, final cut,
ten .6.1 is what's out right now, but ten .6.2 is what
Apple used in their tests when they talk about their specs.
So it's really unclear at this point that final cut, ten .6.1
has been optimized for the Mac Studio and the M1 Ultra.
I don't think it has.
And that's going to be one of the key factors in getting
better speeds out of this.
As software gets optimized for the M1 Ultra, you should see
better performance in that, which would make sense why I am
not seeing a huge difference between these two machines.
Now, the next thing I'd like to talk about is the amount of IO
on the Mac Studio, which has been, I think,
significant for me because I've been able to get rid of my OWC
Thunderbolt Dock, which has three downstream ports on
the back, one upstream port on the front in addition to
some usb-a ports.
But because of the fact that those Thunderbolt four ports
are shared resources, where here on the Mac Studio
they are individual and they are per bus.
I'm able to get 45 or sorry, excuse me, 40 gigabits of
throughput on the Mac Studio in comparison to all the data
being channeled through that dock.
Now it's not something again.
So to be see, that's just how the cable docks work.
But for me, if I'm able to get rid of this, clean up my desk,
as they say, you can see that on this angle.
There's a lot of stuff on my desk at this moment.
And because there is the last of my desk, I always look for
ways to improve my set up and kind of make it more minimal as
much as possible.
Now, does it make sense to sell a $300 dock for a $4,000
computer or even a $2,000 computer?
No, it doesn't.
But that is my scenario specifically.
So if you need something with more IO the Mac studio,
definitely something I would look into.
Now, what I would tell you is that the MacBook Pro certainly
is no slouch and I chose this because of the
portability of it.
I do a lot of work at home.
I do a lot of my editing at home in this room.
I do it somewhere upstairs, my other office.
But I would say that for the most part I am not necessarily
sold on the benefit that Mac Studio provides me, though I
still have about ten days worth of kind of my return period
before I make a final decision.
If I were to keep it the Mac studio as a as a computer,
I don't know if I would keep the the version that I
have here, the M1 Ultra and I don't know if I would get
the M1 Max.
For me, it doesn't really make a lot of sense.
I'm still kind of on the fence.
I probably talk myself in and out of it about a dozen times
so far in the past 48 hours.
So that is all I have for right now.
Let me know what kind of questions you have down in the
comments below regarding the Mac studio, my workflow,
whatever it is,
I'm very active in the comments and I try to reply
to everyone.
When people are leaving comments, let me know
what kind of questions you have.
My name is Mike.
This is Tech 24 seven TV.
I'll talk to the next one.
Wait.
What are you still doing here?
I got to go.
No, no, you can't stay.
That's why I said I have to go, man.