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- For the artist and the creative professional,
a good computer is an essential foundational tool.
And while we're all excited
to see how Apple's new Mac Studio will fit the bill,
I wanted to get have a last haul-over look
at the new MacBook pro.
Now, in the World of Tech, YouTube,
we've done our benchmarks
and tried out what's new to tell you how it is.
And the new MacBook pro has impressed just about all of us.
But what about the types of people who they are made for?
What is the MacBook Pro like in the real world?
The results that might surprise you.
They surprised me!
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♪ But yo don't know we are on soul factions ♪
♪ But you have much ons ♪
This is Andrew Mueller.
He's a musician friend of mine
who goes by the name, Viiola Bloom.
- Viiola Bloom.
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He's been growing in music production
for a number of years now
accumulating a large array of cool synths
and effect MABAS that plug into his 2015 MacBook pro
glowing logo and all.
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- I mean, I can pull up a song file
- Software-wise music producers are spoiled for choice
with their digital audio workstation software
And Andrew's choice when writing
and producing tunes is Reason.
- The reason I like Reason is that you can build
like very complicated instruments.
And it's really cool.
It's based on more of an analog look like even when you go
into it, you see these little rack units
that you would normally see if you went into
like a million dollar studio
and you can turn them around and see the wiring
and you can rewire them and you could do all this stuff.
- Using something like Ableton is like more appropriate
but I hate using Ableton like to write music with,
yeah 'cause this is a song I wrote in the summer.
I'm just starting to load it now.
But then once you go to play it,
it's like it's gonna stutter a ton
- For us a slow computer is a bit of a nuisance,
but for Andrew, it can really cramp his creative flow
- For audio buffer size is like very important.
As you can see like we have a certain amount
of samples here and it tells us what our latency is.
So like this song, for example
will not play unless I have the set to 2000 samples.
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So this is like,
'cause this is what you have to do
is you have to keep jumping up your buffer size
every time your a project gets bigger
and now you can touch the project less
because you're like,
oh well I wanna record some instruments.
It starts to create a mess.
So it's like you, okay
well I'm just gonna increase the buffer size.
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It's like a very long delay.
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It's literally impossible
'cause you like your brain gets confused
'cause you hear it a second later.
It's just like, you feel like an idiot.
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- So can we make Andrew's life a little better?
This new MacBook pro with an m1 pro processor
is about four times faster
than his fourth gen Intel core i7 laptop.
And so I wanna give it to him to see if such an upgrade
actually makes any difference.
This is tough.
(laughs)
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- On the other side, what about one of our video editors
like Hoffman, whom you might recognize.
He's an editor here at LMG who occasionally takes photos
for match on lttstore.com
Just like me with their Plaid Flannel
in the edit den he uses a massive
powerful desktop PC threadripper 3090 and all
- It's just so fast.
I don't really have care about
- His workstation is very powerful and very big.
So I wanna see how much
in M1 max powered MacBook pro with 24 cores compares
- What the heck are you doing?
- Well, we're replacing your desktop heavying her
with a new MacBook pro.
I'm gonna see if this just as fast.
- Is it gonna be faster than mine?
- You're gonna tell me,
you know, this is what you want.
- I'm not gonna say anything.
- The goal at this video is to get an idea
of what it would be like where someone
to add one of these MacBook pros into the workflow.
So we're gonna get a bit of time,
at least over a week to let them get their hands dirty.
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- Cool.
- Many of the new features introduced in the MacBook pro
are extremely handy, especially in Hoffman's case
that SD card reader almost worth the price of entry alone
except for the fact that you also get
that fabulous XDR display.
- The screen it's just so nice.
I can trust the screen.
I actually edit photos on the screen all the time
for LTT store.
The keyboard's just so nice.
It's so tactile.
It's exactly what I wanted
- At his desk.
Hoffman edits high quality,
high bit rate Mac address footage.
Now we do have a server to edit footage of
however it and max have a bit of a fickle relationship.
So Hoffman's editing locally.
So how does the MacBook compare to the threadripper?
- There are times when the trans code
is just a little bit slower.
For example, it would be like seven minutes
to transport something on the threadripper
versus 12 minutes on let's say Macr Pro,
but I just look at it and you know,
try to listen to the fan.
And I rarely hear the fan sometimes.
- I mean, it is a bit of a big difference
12 minutes to seven minutes.
- It's pretty rough.
I would say.
But the time difference is like couple minutes.
It's not exactly close, but it's not exactly far.
It just surprises me every time
is that I can carry such a powerful computer with me
in such like a small form factor.
And I look at my threadripper machine.
It's like big and bulky.
- So back to Andrew,
the issue for him was managing the buffer in Reason
to hear his multi-layered song.
He needed a big buffer
which meant he can't play along with it.
So is the new Mac any better?
- Like my old computer, once a song got bigger
I would have to be up to like 2000 samples,
which is like it's very hard to record.
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So that's not too bad for only 512 samples.
Like I was expecting it to like, like I was at 2000
so I'm gonna go up more samples.
- You separate?
- No it's actually just got worse when I changed it
to a thousand samples for some reason
- What?
- Yeah, maybe that's what I need
to experiment with is lower.
Like my DSP is at like max,
that's very weird, right?
- It's getting worse and worse and worse.
- I think it'll get better now
at 4,000 and like the new Mac book
I opened up a song and like immediately it wouldn't play
until I had it at 4,000 samples.
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- So how did you feel
when the performance was not as is good?
- Oh man that was so disappointing.
It felt awful.
It was like, oh, did I make a huge mistake here?
Like it made me feel like I was an early adopter.
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- It shows that the problem here is the software
in the digital audio workstation space.
Reason is known for being a little behind
the latest 12 now supports HD graphics for retina screens,
Andrew, however uses version 11.
And while it should run on m1 through Rosetta
something is clearly getting lost in translation
and native m1 support looks a long way off
despite the m1 being a part of the system requirements.
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So are you gonna a buy a MacBook?
- I'm yeah, I bought a MacBook
and it just shipped the last night.
- Oh, you just got it.
- And it just shipped last night
and I got a ups sticker on my door
and I went and picked it up just before this interview.
- You still went and got one anyway.
- I still got it anyways.
Yeah.
- Oh, you got a space gray, one
- It's space gray. What can I say?
For me I was motivated just because my computer
was getting slow and while I'm trying to work
on these projects and I got 2000 samples on my buffer size
and then I upgraded it doesn't even solve that problem.
So now I'm actually in a funny position where I'm like,
oh maybe I would move to Ableton
because I know it's gonna perform way better.
And that might be a mistake,
but I'm motivated to make that mistake
because I have this problem now.
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- These powerful apple Silicon max have brought
loads of enthusiasm to the platform,
especially from creative professionals
like Hoffman and Andrew,
both of whom really fell for the features design and future
of the new architecture.
- It's like four grand.
- Enough even to put their money where their mouth is.
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But after the hardware transition comes the hard part
which is the software transition.
There are loads of great chip features
like the neural engine,
the media engine and countless GPU course
for developers to take advantage of
but it's gonna require lots of work to do so
larger developers like the ones who make Ableton
will get there faster.
In fact, we saw them in the apple studio announcement.
But in it's harder for smaller developers
like the one who makes Reason.
And at a time when Apple's developer relationships
are dropping towards all time lows,
this might be for users
the biggest difficulty of this transition.
- Would I get one?
Here's the deal
I'm saying that I love it because I don't pay for it.
- If you don't need to upgrade, then just wait a bit.
- When you look machine that's so small
and you tell yourself that it's almost $4,000
you kind of start to think, is it justifiable?
Because if I can't use it in a professional environment
then where am I gonna use it?
- Thanks for testing out this Mac address.
I'll admit this wasn't quite the conclusion
I was expecting when I set out to make this video.
But if you think the Mac book pro
will make your computing faster
then give this a like,
and if you're curious about the Mac studio then subscribe
now in the comments, I'm curious about what apps you use
that aren't quite apple Silicon native yet,
like Microsoft teams. (beep)