![]() These chips are still 5nm ones, since the 3nm processors are not yet available. If you ask me about future proofing: unfortunately, Apple is not really in their comfort zone with the M2 laptops. Now with more power in the M2, even for the Pro in the 16" case thermal throttling will kick in for longer renders. Regarding thermals, even the 14" M1 starts throttling under heavy load, while the 16" M1 Pro never gets too hot. You don't even need to go for the higher SSD capacity, since it has the speedy SSD RAID even in the base model, while the M2 has a secret downgrade there. Well, if money is tight and you are fast to decide, I can wholeheartedly recommend the Model I'm using (see my sig), since it's massively discounted ATM. Max, do they have links to reviews/discussions that answer these questions competently? So, I thought I should ask people that actually use Resolve, members of this forum, what they would do, what is their experience working on MacBook M2 Pro vs. ![]() HOWEVER-, as I watch their reviews it is painfully obvious to me they don’t know how to benchmark systems, much less in a way that would reflect their performance and experience in real world usage, so I am very hesitant to just blindly take their word for it.Īlso, quite a few of them just rattle off final numbers compared to previous generation and that tells me nothing because this would be my first Mac ever so I don’t have a reference point. Many of so-called reviewers claim “even base models are already fast, that should be good enough”. I tried searching for reviews that might answer that but with no luck, it is like searching for needle in the galaxy of haystacks. My definition of thermal throttling is one CPU industry uses, which is when system starts reducing clock frequency of CPU in order to protect it from overheating, which in turn drops overall throughput of CPU and could in theory result in Max being slower than Pro. On the other hand I need to use this MacBook in hot climates (think Southern California / Arizona / Nevada in the middle of the summer) and I am concerned that M2 Max might result in much easier thermal throttling than Pro. Yes, money -IS- tight but price for lower model is already high enough that I wouldn’t feel it is low enough to be an acceptable compromise if performance is not completely smooth. Money is tight so my impulse is to go with cheapest CPU model, M2 Pro with 10-core CPU & 16 core GPU, but at the same time I worry what my experience using it will be, will performance and experience be smooth or I will regret not spending another $500 to get M2 Max with 12 core CPU and 30 core GPU. Just to make and upload good enough video that can’t wait while I am back from trip. At most 4K 60fps footage coming from consumer cameras, some Fusion transitions and effects, denoising, stabilization, tracking, third party plugins (Izotope, NeatVideo …) and that should be it. Think of average vlog / travel / interview / commentary YouTube video. Complexity of video projects I need to handle while traveling is probably nowhere near what majority of pros in this forum do, it is “medium” at maximum. Highest workload I expect to put on this machine while traveling is video editing. One thing I can’t decide on is which CPU to go for. Naturally I started looking at recently released MacBook Pro models and have so far settled on 14” model with 32 GB of memory and 1 TB of storage. ![]() It seems I might find myself in the need of the laptop to use while traveling.
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