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It seems I might find myself in the need of the laptop to use while traveling. 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.
One thing I can’t decide on is which CPU to go for. Highest workload I expect to put on this machine while traveling is video editing. 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. Think of average vlog / travel / interview / commentary YouTube video. 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. Just to make and upload good enough video that can’t wait while I am back from trip.
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.
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.
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. 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.
I tried searching for reviews that might answer that but with no luck, it is like searching for needle in the galaxy of haystacks. Many of so-called reviewers claim “even base models are already fast, that should be good enough”. -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.
Also, 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.
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. Max, do they have links to reviews/discussions that answer these questions competently?
Thank you in advance!
One thing I can’t decide on is which CPU to go for. Highest workload I expect to put on this machine while traveling is video editing. 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. Think of average vlog / travel / interview / commentary YouTube video. 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. Just to make and upload good enough video that can’t wait while I am back from trip.
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.
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.
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. 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.
I tried searching for reviews that might answer that but with no luck, it is like searching for needle in the galaxy of haystacks. Many of so-called reviewers claim “even base models are already fast, that should be good enough”. -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.
Also, 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.
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. Max, do they have links to reviews/discussions that answer these questions competently?
Thank you in advance!