this was just the video I needed !! thank you for explaining the m1 to the m1 max from an editors perspective. I experienced the same stuff as you with m1 !! keep up the amazing content !
@@thedavedillon Its all over the internet. Most times it says 2160p HDR and it plays in SDR. It should say HDR at the bottom normally. So the solution I found is to change the user agent on Safari/Chrome to Chrome-Windows and it works. Everytime though I start the browser I have to do it. Probably an update did this because when I bought My Macbook Pro everything was fine. I hope they fix it.
You made the right choice Dave with the 16 inch" . I did order the 16" with M1X max 24 core 32 GB of Ram and 2 T hard drive . But I have to wait at least 4 weeks to get it from B&H store. ( tax free)BTW , I found out the difference between the 14 " and the 16" with the same specs was only $200 usd. So its a no brainer!! :))
I have watched quite a number of reviews on these new macbooks, and I find your videos quite helpful actually, so thank you first of all for that! I'm also not sure whether to choose the M1 Pro 16' or the M1 Max 16', for that same reason, the battery life. What my current macbook pro (15' 2013) struggles with the most, are actually plugins like "Reduce Noise" (from Neat Video) and "Cinema Grade". These are incredible plugins but they take FOREVER to render on my laptop. A lot of reviews do all these tests and talk about the battery life and how great these machines are when it comes to performance, but these are mostly edit tests with just color grading, luts, or just the high quality codex from high end camera's. I haven't seen anyone do a video edit test with these kinds of high demanding plugins I'm talking about.
Thanks! Reduce Noise is a bear even on the M1 Max. That's a great idea for a video though. I'll post a follow up shortly. In short, I'd say if you're heavy into editing and make money with your laptop springing for the Max might be worth it for some future proofing and just to feel creatively free from worrying about the performance., The M1 Pro is no slouch though. I had a chance to test them side by side for a couple of days before I returned the M1 Pro 14" and that thing was seriously impressive. Thanks for watching!
Nice one Dave! I follow you on your main channel and I chose my garmin fenix because of your reviews! I am running my first marathon next week and can't wait to improve and start ultras! I also ordered an M1 max macbook pro and impatiently waiting for it and just stumbled upon your video! subscribed and I hope to see more tech vids from you!
Thanks! Funny you found your way over here! I figured I'd try something new since I'm passionate about the content creation side of things as well. Hope you enjoy the new laptop! It's really amazing!
So I decided to go with the greatest no brainer configuration 16.5" M1 Pro base model for an extra 200$ over the 14" M1 pro base model. Mainly because you get a bigger XDR display and it has more battery life then the MacBook air! Plus I get two extra CPU cores & two extra GPU cores which is a bonus for me. In addition I also upgraded the SSD to 1TB for future proofing. If you have any spare time and would like to check out my M1 pro unboxing with a beginners perspective since I only shot it with my iPhone 📹😁Thank you in advance and I hope you have a great day!
I appreciate that there is someone who is honest about the weight. I picked up a 16inch and thought how light it was. I currently run an ASUS ZENBOOK PRO DUO. Every TH-camr says. It’s heavy. Thank you. A good practice review. Battery life is a concern for me also, I have a 16 /24 core 32 GB model on the way. It’s good to hear that you get a solid 6 hours of editing out of it with video. This means Lightroom will be a breeze. Cheers from OZ. God Bless.
Would love to see vids regarding the creative process, from idea to script, to recording and editing, how to plan for resource use (b-roll, stock footage, and so on). Thanks.
Thanks for the idea! I've certainly got some of those videos coming! I want this channel to focus on all of the aspects of content creation and what I've learned growing my main channel along the way. Thanks for watching!
Just returned my 14 Max with 64gb ram and 2tb ssd...rendering After Effects was painful and I'm back to my 2018 mbp to take care of that. The trackpad also was having weird issues...and I'm not the only one with that problem. So not sure what to do now...I'd like an upgrade from my 32gb of ram and 1tb ssd, and thought the M1 Max would be amazing...it is hugely disappointing. Today as I saw the spinning ball with a Photoshop file that had two layers, I couldn't take it anymore. Now I'm considering a refurbished machine but wow! they are expensive too!
The problem with the max battery in terms of “all day usage” is at the moment, brand new it’s getting say 7 hours. In 3-4 years it’s going to fall short whilst the pro might come down to what the max is getting now. So that’s something to think about if you care about longevity.
yes the battery maybe cut short after 3-4 years but by then you’ll either have upgraded or replaced battery when your battery cycle is up typically are 500 count cycles.
@@Kluttzv Yes but it doesn't just drop off a cliff at 3-4 years, its a gradual degradation over its lifetime. If it's barely got what you need from it brand new its only going to get worse from there. That's assuming of course that you're actually away from power and trying to get that much time out of the battery regularly. Otherwise it doesn't matter so much.
I actually did a TON of testing I thought would be boring in this video. Even went as far as to plug the laptop into a watt meter to see how much power it draws from the wall. Long story short, in light duty tasks I got over 10 hours of use. In heavy duty tasks like video editing its more like 5-7 depending on the software being used. Thanks for watching!
@@thedavedillon Thanks for your reply. This specific topic matters to me as to other people, but many others are not as mental and they don't care. So I think that you did well by avoiding to put too many informations that only a niche of people would have cared about. I asked and I knew you would have replied. Thanks, keep up with what you're doing.
Thanks for such a helpful video with a unique perspective on the 16 in inch than most other videos. For web browsing, emails, TH-cam, & Netflix and other light usage what's the battery percentage penalty on the M1 Max vs the M1 Pro?
It’s really simple. If you want portability and don’t need to ultra long battery life, get the 14” If you are a power user that need the real estate, max battery life, and ultra quiet laptop, get the 16” No need to justify your purchase to anyone. You know your use case better than anyone else. Btw, you can extend your battery life with a 600g 100wh usbc pd 65-100w powerbank by 80-100%. Then you don’t even need to carry a power brick (that weighs 250-350g) because now you have all day battery life. Which means for .5-1lbs more, you are no longer tied to the wall! 😊
Great video. I just wonder how you manage storage for video work with only 1TB. Do you work at all on the internal SSD? Do you have ultra fast external drive?
My workflow is to keep a "Work in progress" folder on my desktop of the internal SSD that includes any active projects (typically 1-3 at any given point). The internal 1TB storage is more than enough for this. Once I complete a project I offload it to an external 4TB Sandisk Extreme SSD temporarily (sometimes I steal clips/audio from recent projects) and after some time it's backed up onto my 42TB network attached storage Synology server and to a cloud backup. I am captain overkill... But this works for me. To be honest, if I had a huge internal SSD I'd be concerned about losing stuff or even the entire laptop!
Great Video! Consider this, Yes the M1 Max uses more power but the power draw most probably is cancelled out because of the time you save on your renders and effects. Simply put...you use more power but in less time. ;)
What is the maximum resolution you can scale to on the 16 in MacBook Pro. I don't see an option to scaled to the max resolution of 16-inch (3456 × 2234)
No justification here. This laptop makes me money and the increased productivity is 1000% worth the cost. That said, it's certainly not the right tool for everyone.
Nice video Dave . I am shopping around for an external display , which brand and model is your 32 inch" monitor ?? And are you happy with it or will you replace it with something better??
Well done fella, as you said, all others fg brain washing all, as if it weight like a gold bar. Question though, if a casual user had similar specs but with 512 ssd as have external 6TB drive, worth still buying and saving some $$$ ?
Thanks! Yeah, if you rely on external drives I wouldn't bother paying for tons of internal storage because it's super expensive from Apple. 1TB is more than enough for me before I offload it to backup drives and archive.
You have the most honest review I’ve seen. You definitely deserve more view and like
I agree with you. Lol. After going to the apple store and looking at the 16 inch it is definitely not that heavy.
Glad I'm not alone!
Im on 14 in m1 max i am loving the size and weight. Coming from the 16 inches mbp. I hate that $6000 pos of a machine
@FlightStream woah 123” 😱 where can I get that 😂
this was just the video I needed !! thank you for explaining the m1 to the m1 max from an editors perspective. I experienced the same stuff as you with m1 !! keep up the amazing content !
Glad you found it helpful!
BTW my M1 pro MacBook Pro doesnt play HDR videos on TH-cam. Lots of owners have reported the bug hopefully it will be fixed soon.
Strange, my M1 Max hasn’t had that issue.
@@thedavedillon Its all over the internet. Most times it says 2160p HDR and it plays in SDR. It should say HDR at the bottom normally. So the solution I found is to change the user agent on Safari/Chrome to Chrome-Windows and it works. Everytime though I start the browser I have to do it. Probably an update did this because when I bought My Macbook Pro everything was fine. I hope they fix it.
Thank you! Much more helpful than a lot other reviews! At the end all come down to real world benefits!
Thanks! Glad you found it helpful!
Thanks Dave for your help you have answered my questions 👍 after watching lots of different videos on this laptop 😀 laters
Glad it was helpful!
Great review, I subbed! Keep it going man!
Much appreciated!
You made the right choice Dave with the 16 inch" . I did order the 16" with M1X max 24 core 32 GB of Ram and 2 T hard drive . But I have to wait at least 4 weeks to get it from B&H store. ( tax free)BTW , I found out the difference between the 14 " and the 16" with the same specs was only $200 usd. So its a no brainer!! :))
Nice! Yeah for sure, the money isn't that big of a difference between the two. It's more about the portability, screen real estate, and battery life.
Thanks for this, good to see real world reviews rather than benchmarks. Allow, glad I ordered the 16” based on this.
Glad it was helpful!
I have watched quite a number of reviews on these new macbooks, and I find your videos quite helpful actually, so thank you first of all for that!
I'm also not sure whether to choose the M1 Pro 16' or the M1 Max 16', for that same reason, the battery life.
What my current macbook pro (15' 2013) struggles with the most, are actually plugins like "Reduce Noise" (from Neat Video) and "Cinema Grade". These are incredible plugins but they take FOREVER to render on my laptop.
A lot of reviews do all these tests and talk about the battery life and how great these machines are when it comes to performance, but these are mostly edit tests with just color grading, luts, or just the high quality codex from high end camera's.
I haven't seen anyone do a video edit test with these kinds of high demanding plugins I'm talking about.
Thanks! Reduce Noise is a bear even on the M1 Max. That's a great idea for a video though. I'll post a follow up shortly.
In short, I'd say if you're heavy into editing and make money with your laptop springing for the Max might be worth it for some future proofing and just to feel creatively free from worrying about the performance.,
The M1 Pro is no slouch though. I had a chance to test them side by side for a couple of days before I returned the M1 Pro 14" and that thing was seriously impressive.
Thanks for watching!
@@thedavedillon thx for the quick respons, Dave! Yes I indeed want to future proof my set-up. I’ll for sure check it out if you make that video!
Thanks man. Ordered the 16 Max with 24gpu and was worried about battery life and it being to big and heavy. Now i'm relieved. Cheers!
It's a great machine. You won't be dissapointed!
Nice one Dave! I follow you on your main channel and I chose my garmin fenix because of your reviews! I am running my first marathon next week and can't wait to improve and start ultras! I also ordered an M1 max macbook pro and impatiently waiting for it and just stumbled upon your video! subscribed and I hope to see more tech vids from you!
Thanks! Funny you found your way over here! I figured I'd try something new since I'm passionate about the content creation side of things as well. Hope you enjoy the new laptop! It's really amazing!
So I decided to go with the greatest no brainer configuration 16.5" M1 Pro base model for an extra 200$ over the 14" M1 pro base model. Mainly because you get a bigger XDR display and it has more battery life then the MacBook air! Plus I get two extra CPU cores & two extra GPU cores which is a bonus for me. In addition I also upgraded the SSD to 1TB for future proofing. If you have any spare time and would like to check out my M1 pro unboxing with a beginners perspective since I only shot it with my iPhone 📹😁Thank you in advance and I hope you have a great day!
I want to see multiple external ultra wide monitors hook up to it - awaiting NEW LG 4Ow 5K2k unit - back ordered
Nice! I only use a single display in conjunction with the built in laptop display.
7:23 this is a great insight actually now that I think of it!
Glad it was helpful!
The ports was needed
Yup!
I appreciate that there is someone who is honest about the weight. I picked up a 16inch and thought how light it was. I currently run an ASUS ZENBOOK PRO DUO.
Every TH-camr says. It’s heavy. Thank you. A good practice review. Battery life is a concern for me also, I have a 16 /24 core 32 GB model on the way. It’s good to hear that you get a solid 6 hours of editing out of it with video. This means Lightroom will be a breeze. Cheers from OZ. God Bless.
It;s certainly more portable than my big windows workstation! Thanks for watching.
Would love to see vids regarding the creative process, from idea to script, to recording and editing, how to plan for resource use (b-roll, stock footage, and so on). Thanks.
Thanks for the idea! I've certainly got some of those videos coming! I want this channel to focus on all of the aspects of content creation and what I've learned growing my main channel along the way. Thanks for watching!
Just returned my 14 Max with 64gb ram and 2tb ssd...rendering After Effects was painful and I'm back to my 2018 mbp to take care of that. The trackpad also was having weird issues...and I'm not the only one with that problem. So not sure what to do now...I'd like an upgrade from my 32gb of ram and 1tb ssd, and thought the M1 Max would be amazing...it is hugely disappointing. Today as I saw the spinning ball with a Photoshop file that had two layers, I couldn't take it anymore. Now I'm considering a refurbished machine but wow! they are expensive too!
Huge thumbs up! I find this idea of a second different channel very interesting.
We’ll see 🤷♂️ thanks Matt!
The problem with the max battery in terms of “all day usage” is at the moment, brand new it’s getting say 7 hours. In 3-4 years it’s going to fall short whilst the pro might come down to what the max is getting now. So that’s something to think about if you care about longevity.
For sure, we'll see how they age,.
Technically yes but that’s what replacing the internal battery is for
yes the battery maybe cut short after 3-4 years but by then you’ll either have upgraded or replaced battery when your battery cycle is up typically are 500 count cycles.
@@Kluttzv Yes but it doesn't just drop off a cliff at 3-4 years, its a gradual degradation over its lifetime. If it's barely got what you need from it brand new its only going to get worse from there.
That's assuming of course that you're actually away from power and trying to get that much time out of the battery regularly. Otherwise it doesn't matter so much.
I think you should have developed the battery life thing better. What about light use? How’s its battery?
I actually did a TON of testing I thought would be boring in this video. Even went as far as to plug the laptop into a watt meter to see how much power it draws from the wall. Long story short, in light duty tasks I got over 10 hours of use. In heavy duty tasks like video editing its more like 5-7 depending on the software being used. Thanks for watching!
@@thedavedillon Thanks for your reply. This specific topic matters to me as to other people, but many others are not as mental and they don't care. So I think that you did well by avoiding to put too many informations that only a niche of people would have cared about. I asked and I knew you would have replied. Thanks, keep up with what you're doing.
Thanks for such a helpful video with a unique perspective on the 16 in inch than most other videos. For web browsing, emails, TH-cam, & Netflix and other light usage what's the battery percentage penalty on the M1 Max vs the M1 Pro?
Now you made me reconsider going from 14 to 16 inch hahah very good video!
It's a very personal decision. Do you value absolute portability? The extra screen real estate and battery life are nice!
It’s really simple. If you want portability and don’t need to ultra long battery life, get the 14”
If you are a power user that need the real estate, max battery life, and ultra quiet laptop, get the 16”
No need to justify your purchase to anyone. You know your use case better than anyone else.
Btw, you can extend your battery life with a 600g 100wh usbc pd 65-100w powerbank by 80-100%. Then you don’t even need to carry a power brick (that weighs 250-350g) because now you have all day battery life.
Which means for .5-1lbs more, you are no longer tied to the wall!
😊
For sure, I suppose my point is that the 16" isn't really THAT big in comparison after owning both.,
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Silver in this video
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Great video. I just wonder how you manage storage for video work with only 1TB. Do you work at all on the internal SSD? Do you have ultra fast external drive?
My workflow is to keep a "Work in progress" folder on my desktop of the internal SSD that includes any active projects (typically 1-3 at any given point). The internal 1TB storage is more than enough for this. Once I complete a project I offload it to an external 4TB Sandisk Extreme SSD temporarily (sometimes I steal clips/audio from recent projects) and after some time it's backed up onto my 42TB network attached storage Synology server and to a cloud backup.
I am captain overkill... But this works for me. To be honest, if I had a huge internal SSD I'd be concerned about losing stuff or even the entire laptop!
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Thanks!
Great Video!
Consider this, Yes the M1 Max uses more power but the power draw most probably is cancelled out because of the time you save on your renders and effects. Simply put...you use more power but in less time. ;)
Yup, that's very true. I'm sure I'm paying some penalty for the added cores but it still has great battery life.
What is the maximum resolution you can scale to on the 16 in MacBook Pro. I don't see an option to scaled to the max resolution of 16-inch (3456 × 2234)
If you set the resolution to "smallest" in the settings it will scale to native resolution.
Can I take a wild guess and say that you're Canadian?
Lol. Nope! I’m in Massachusetts, USA!
I thought he was Canadian too. The way he says “about”….aboot
It seems everyone have to justify why they have brought something that they don’t really need.
true
No justification here. This laptop makes me money and the increased productivity is 1000% worth the cost. That said, it's certainly not the right tool for everyone.
Good insights, thanks. I could afford one of these...just trying to decide if I really need one. :-)
Usually, if you need to think you need one, you don't
It's a tough call. The base M1 13" can do SO MUCH at 1/3rd the price!
you know what they say ...ones you go big you can't go back
Well I had a 13" and went to 16"... Still happy with the 16" though!
@@thedavedillon 16 all the way.. What's funny is now that I'm used to it it doesn't look like 16
Nice video Dave . I am shopping around for an external display , which brand and model is your 32 inch" monitor ?? And are you happy with it or will you replace it with something better??
I have an LG 32" 4K display (32UN500-W) it's pretty good for the money. If I had the budget I'd probably go for a more pro IPS panel though.
Well done fella, as you said, all others fg brain washing all, as if it weight like a gold bar. Question though, if a casual user had similar specs but with 512 ssd as have external 6TB drive, worth still buying and saving some $$$ ?
Thanks! Yeah, if you rely on external drives I wouldn't bother paying for tons of internal storage because it's super expensive from Apple. 1TB is more than enough for me before I offload it to backup drives and archive.
Xbox stream on it
That's not really something I do. But I'm sure there are others covering that side of it.