You can easily crank out dailies on this machine in an incredible time. Even if you are thinking you might still want to edit proxy or transcoded media-and you might! Maybe you are sharing media over the internet, or with a collaborator on a slower machine. Hitting that speed on either ProRes or the notoriously slower H.265 encode is even better. Watching a machine hit 20fps renders on 12K footage just puts a smile on your face. This machine is just a powerful beast it's an order of magnitude better than before. Rendering even on last December's 2020 14" MacBook Pro at full spec, the original M1, which was surprisingly powerful, is only 20% done after an hour. You've got three Thunderbolt 4 slots for peripherals galore, all of which can also be used to charge. You've got an SDXC slot for downloading photos from your camera or sound files from your recorder. You've got a full-sized HDMI so you can just roll into a classroom or meeting room, or even your parents' living room, and plug it in and connect to the monitor or projector, no dongle needed. The key thing you get with this laptop, of course, is the return of real ports. The new form is flatter on top and the bezel more rounded on bottom. It's not a dramatic difference, but just enough you notice it. The cast now loses that texture and is smoother, in a way that feels more "classic." If anything comes to mind, it's a beautiful steel desk. It wasn't talked about a ton at the release, but the aluminum of the body has been changed a bit.įor around a decade the MBP has had a very fine texture to its aluminum case, very much a signature look that refracts light a very specific way. Which is what makes the new Apple MacBook Pro so fascinating it's kind of the whole list folks had been hoping for. By the time a thing comes out with all the features you used to want, there are new features that have been invented that you now want. A phone has the cool new sensor, but no GPS. A camera has the right resolution, but weak autofocus. Rarely in life do you get "everything you want" in a single piece of gear. There is slightly less "texture" to the new case than the old. I think about it sometimes when I have a frustration with a piece of gear what is it really that I want from this gear that I'm not getting? This line was ringing through my ears as I tested the new M1 Max MacBook Pro this week, since honestly, Mac has given filmmakers everything we really wanted all in one fell swoop. There's that great line in Citizen Kane where Susan Kane says, "You never give me anything I really wanted." Charles Foster Kane gives her singing lessons and an opera house and mansions, but she would actually like love and attention and someone who engages with her as a person. It's rare that something comes out that checks all the boxes at the same time, but here we are.
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