lost_soul wrote:As for windows I think you can still run that in a VM on these but I am not sure.
Only ARM builds of Windows and Microsoft has not been licensing this in any readily accessible way for most users.
As to that video, very few of his tests were of any real value in comparing the performance of the notebooks. Editing won't stress the system nearly as much as color grading and applying FX, which he did none of from what I can see. Fusion is a bit better of a test, and that did show a difference when rendering (uncached playback - the first time through). Most of his other tests have performance driven primarily from decoding of RAW files where the difference between the M1 and M1 Pro/Max should be expected to be relatively minimal. Each frame is unique so there is little opportunity to leverage the greater memory capacity of the machines and the GPU advancements will not come significantly into play.
I do think the original M1 systems are adequate for most editing purposes as long as correct optimizations are in play, but for heavier activities such as complex Fusion compositions as well as heavier color grading and the like the new models are much more likely to make a bigger difference. His Fusion composition was interesting but did not strike me as being one of the multi-thousand-node comps that some professional compositors work with somewhat regularly... it would be much more interesting to see one of those in a comparison between those three systems.
All being said, in context of this discussion, the OP seems to be primarily interested in editing performance, and the video does help to drive home that the original M1 models can keep up just fine when doing that as long as you are using appropriate settings.