MacBook Pro M3 Max 3 Month Review! // One Small Concern?
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- čas přidán 22. 05. 2024
- My review of the new MacBook Pro M3 Max chip is here!
Overall this laptop is amazing. If you're a content creator of any sorts then this laptop is for you and you will not be disappointed!
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Does anyone really do editing on a plane such that it affects a laptop buying choice, been flying for decades, rarely seen anyone pull out a laptop.
Some people do. I do the odd time just to pass time if I want or if I have a project I want to get an early start on and have an idea I don’t want to forget for the edit haha
Before covid, when I was travelling more, I used to spend all my long flights writing code. Nothing fancy, but a small laptop is indeed easy to use on planes if not too crowded.
14 inch is way more portable, my personal logic is both 14 and 16 inches are way too small to be used for professional work long term. They're both secondary screens waiting to be plugged into a big display at the office or at home. (I use a 42 inch 4k 120hz OLED 10bit native display) so I'd rather have a more portable device than have a marginally larger screen that is STILL way too small.
I'm going to get a new laptop and I don't know exactly what type to get. I was thinking of buying a MacBook since the specs it has to offer are quite fitting to what I need and will be needed in the future but I also do a little bit of gaming here and now and I'm a bit skeptical about that. Many people have said that if you want to game you should get a gaming laptop but in my experience, gaming laptops have given up on me (stopped working properly) after idk 3 years or so. And since I have a gaming PC right now (it's also old ngl) I won't need something that's made only for that. I need something that's focused on my work: documents, editing, 3D models, PPTs…etc. And have gaming in the background. Is a MacBook like yours, in this case, good to get or not?
FR M3 was such a huge jump from M1 Dongle days. I'm considering getting a thunderbolt 4 for editing reels if I have to.
So happy my dongle days are over!
Gosh I love the colour so much!
Agreed!
Good stuff for sure. I'm getting a similar unit for video editing only. Do you happen to know the specs or model of your external that was slowing you a bit. ??
All I know is it a USB 3.0 8tb Seagate external hard drive. So the transfer speeds being 3.0 aren’t amazing.
I have a video to come soon showing the differences between the Seagate external, the SanDisk SSD, and the internal drive on the MacBook.
I would recommend an SSD if you can. The seagate is great for storing footage and costs less but the SSD is much better for editing off of. Especially if you create Proxy's with your footage.
@@TannerBiggan oh, thank you. I have tons of SSDs all kinds, really fast and some not so fast. But the Mac does have thunderbolt 4 so The drive used externally must be fast …My question to you was what SSD were you using that you had some choppiness? From what I’ve been reading, I don’t have to actually use proxies even on 4K 10, but, 422. I just bought a legion 9i With the very fastest chip and GPU and it’s not cutting it, so it’s going back.
@@TannerBiggan oh, OK I just read this one now. Looking forward to it so you’re using an HHD not an SSD.
For fastest performance you should get a thunderbolt nvme enclosure and put your preferred nvme ssd inside.
Waiting for my M3 128gb to arrive. I haven't bought a new mac in about 6+ years so I thought I'd go balls out and hopefully it'll last the same amount of time.
You’re going to love it and it will last you easily another 6 years 🙌🏼
I found out recently after I was obcessing about external ssd speed that anything over 400 MB.s is not helping for the editing time line. For file swap yes but other than that any ssd will work well. Word.
About a year ago I replaced my 7 year old Mac Mini with a 16in MacBook Pro (ouch $$), and maybe I'm slow but I just found out it was the M1 Max version. I have NEVER heard the fans come on. Big screen, nice audio. But looking for a smaller version and this model looks good to me. Thanks for the review.
Those M1 Max Mac Minis are incredible for the size 🙌🏼 the 14 inch MacBook Pros are a great size for not being massive or too small.
@@TannerBigganis this the 14 core model?
the size is 14" and yes it has 14 cores.@@Djk0t
@@TannerBigganthank you. Any issues with fan noice?
I haven't had any! Only had them come on once and wasn't even that loud.@@Djk0t
Do you have any issues with 10bit 120fps footage playback when you apply heavy grades and noise reduction
Great question! The answer is no. I use a Sony A7IV as my main camera. I record in 4K 10bit 4:2:2 and it loads great! This is straight off of the MacBook itself though. Not off of any externals. And it’s also the only library I have open editing that. If you have multiple libraries open with heavy amounts of any 4K footage and all with heavy grades then yes the MacBook will slow down a bit as any computer would when trying to render that much footage.
Always have to keep in mind what your work load is on the computer while editing in order to get the most efficient and fastest renderings possible 👍🏼
I bought an M1 Mac mini when they first announced them then as soon as the M1 Max was out I picked up a 16 inch and gave away the M1 Mac Mini. I just ordered the M3 Max since I do music production and CPU cores matter more than anything for audio work. I'm excited to see how much more I can squeeze out of a M3 Max over the M1 Max but sadly I had to get silver since Space Black was on backorder 😭💻
The silver is still a great colour! The original MacBook colour 👌🏼 hopefully it gets to you soon and you can start making some killer music!! You’ll love it
I got a black cuz it's all that was stocked. Coming from decades of PC I wanted cool silver. Always black, black, depressing black!. Guess grass is always greener, right?!. Ohh yeah..green. Now wish I could get a green case.😂
@@derekec LOL Green would be nice!!
I’d be so down for a green one haha
The touchbar was intel only; M1 was a part of the redesign. $4000+ could be spent on upgrading sound with a high-quality boom mic, consistently upgrading to the best / more lights, and color grading masterclass/mentorship. Proxy workflows are the industry standard. If you could use the same techniques that films use in your short CZcams videos, the quality of your clientele would go up. If an investment does not give a 5x to 10x ROI positive, it's not worth it, and this is not always financially related either. M3 looks beyond impressive, but considering an M1 Max spec’ed out with a prores raw proxy workflow would be cost-effective and give me 12-bit color in the post and a machine made to manage said codec.
The touch bar was on the very first M1 chip they made. Before the M1 Pro and max chips.
Yes proxy workflows help and ton!
I wouldn’t tell anyone to upgrade who can’t afford it or even has an M1 Pro or Max.
All based on needs for what you’re doing 👍🏼
Hey, this vid is so well done! Couldn’t believe you only had 500 subs. You had exactly the kind of vid I wanted to watch on this topic. Keep it up sir 🫡 Earned my sub
Much appreciated buddy!! Hope I can continue to give you the content you deserve to watch 👍🏼
Question. When inserting dongles-USB drives, SSD drives. Theres no noise indicator that the computer recognizes the drive? Just wondering bec PCs do that. I have my 1st MBP so im new
Not that I’m aware of no. When plugged in you can go to your Finder (my computer) and you should see it on the left hand side where you can open the drive up and eject from there as well. Hope that helps!
@TannerBiggan yes. I see it there. Just use to the sound from PCs. Thanks for getting back to me. Appreciate it.
Happy to help! @@miketorre16
Get a Thunderbolt or USB4 external enclosures (40GBs) with a fast NVME like Samsung 980 pro. Read and Write speeds are 3000 MBs. I got Acasis, Jeyi, Orico brands.
Internal SSDs are around 6000 cuz it's not limited by the max speed of Thunderbolt/USB4.
The External drives you got looks like standard HDDs at around 100MBs. That sandisk is USB 3.2 (10GBs) 1000 MBs.
Note that Macs don't support USB3.2 Gen2x2 (20GBs) Don't buy those.
I’m making a video showing the differences on the externals I use compared to the MacBook itself. You worded this perfectly and might use your comment here on the video to help others if that’s cool with you 👍🏼
Will give you credit obviously.
Much appreciated!!
How’s the fan noise/ heat while playing native games on the 14” M3 Max?
So I don’t do much gaming on it or have tested that quite yet. All I know is when I had the laptop rendering a ton of 8K footage from a RED cam, it picked the fans up but wasn’t loud at all and the laptop never heated up once.
Hope that helps :)
@@TannerBiggan what about video editing using the 14” display, is it manageable?
It's great! never had a problem editing on it and it's great for travelling as well!@@Ali_Alramadan
Also since your based in the US, youll have Apple Refurbished there, why did you not look at those options as well since u said M1 Max is also kinda the same
I’m based in Canada. M1 Max is still great but I wanted something that will be somewhat “future proof” for the next 4 or 5 years. The M1 Max will probably be outdated within a year or two and as video files get larger as cameras become more improved, who knows if the M1 Max will or can handle those files down the road. Just my thoughts :)
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M1 pro will last for next 4-5 years easily in terms of software updates and performance.
“why is nobody talking about that porn tab open”😭💀 0:42
Probably because there isn’t one lol
@ 0:43 damn son, where was this show and when's the next?!?!
It was at Sunfest on Vancouver Island. A massive country music fest.
I’m thinking of getting a M3 max 14. I do music in Fl and pro tool. And also edit music videos on my phone. Coming from intel I’ve never had a computer that’s could handle video edits so I’m coming from the dinosaur era it feels like 😅
You will love the M3 Max!! Especially coming from intel, this will blow you away with the speeds 🙌🏼
Love to hear the passion you have for your music! Wishing you all the best with it and keep up the hard work!
I have the same laptop anf its amazing but what i did notice is that when i use OBS this thing goes super HOT and fans go craaaazzzzy
Oh interesting! Ya I could see that happening. OBS running and having your console in as well could amp it up a lot. I feel it should be able to handle that but that may be where a custom built computer could be needed since games these days run at such faster rates and high quality that maybe a laptop that’s not dedicated for it can’t handle.
@@TannerBiggan its so strange because i reord only screen (web browser) without voice and stuff, and i dont know if its normal or not
Do you have anything else running in background? Because that is strange. I feel it should run just fine but I don’t know enough about OBS so don’t quote me on it haha
@@TannerBiggan no nothing is running on the background, to be honest the only apps i have installed are premier pro and photoshop well OBS as well. but im using now in build app to screen record and its much better but yeah… its just strange how OBS is acting with the macbook pro
@Kinetica_tm I feel like it could be more an OBS thing rather than the MacBook itself. They may need to update their app in someway to be better with Apple products but I’m just guessing.
Hope it’s working great overall though 😄
what case and backpack do u use for it
I use a very old sleeve case from InCase. I’ve had it since my first MacBook Pro in 2010 haha but it’s fairly padded all around. For a backpack I use the Brevite jumper backpack. Hold all my camera gear and has a great spot for a laptop to slide right in even with the sleeve on it 👍🏼
hey man, what can you tell about scratches?
Hey! SO far I have 0 scratches. I travel with it in a fairly protected sleeve and it also doesn't leave my desk too often unless at a coffee shop, meeting, or travel.
@@TannerBiggan thank you!
@@MrRetinskiy no problem!
You can have 512gb ssd with m3max
Yes I believe there is a way you can do it by selecting the M3 Pro chip and then choosing to upgrade to the M3 Max. But you can’t if you select the M3 Max right away on the site.
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Is it mandatory for all videographers to wear a baseball cap backwards?
Yes 👍🏼
M3 max on the 14inch is too.hot. so pointless.
I haven’t experienced it getting too hot yet
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