The Apple M1 Max means you don’t need a gaming laptop for video editing anymore

Finally happened, Apple released M1 Pro and M1 Max almost a year after launching M1 on November 2020. While Apple first made his own silicon for a very impressive laptop, this new chip must have our attention and even more than that from the last time around.

Because in the end, Apple M1 is behind the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro 13 inches. This is a powerful device for everyday use, to ensure, but there is no shortage of ultrabook class laptops before. However, these stronger silicon pieces can be a game-changer for creative, especially when you consider the broader port varieties available this time.

If Apple’s claim about M1 Pro and M1 Max is accurate – and it’s too fast to say one or other ways – creative professionals who have rely on devices that look tense like a Razer 15 or Gigabyte Aero knife will be able to get that performance elsewhere, and possibilities more efficient.

GPU who is not hard?

MacBooks is not a laptop game, no matter how much the company will claim the opposite with the inclusion of the apple arcade. However, gamers are not the only ones who need a fast graphics card.

More than before, creative applications such as Adobe Premiere, Blender, and others leaned into large quantities of computers available in modern GPUs – especially those from Nvidia. That means CUDA becomes more important than before, and Apple is slow to add a decent GPU for its laptop, especially because it effectively prohibits Nvidia GPU from running with its hardware – Read more on this Gizmodo blog if you want the story on it.

Instead, MacBook Pro 16 2019, which is the last high-powered laptop laptop launched, has an AMD Radeon Pro 5500m with 4GB VRAM. It’s not much for someone to edit videos.

So, while our reviews about MacBook Pro 16 are quite positive, I cannot personally consider it serious as a professional workstation, because it has a weak GPU. But from his appearance, and fully turned off Apple’s own claims – which we will test when we get it – that has changed.

Apple claims that M1 Max can compete with Razer Blade 15 forward with the same graphics performance, but with much less power consumption. It was one of our favorite laptops, and it was one of the big hits with creative.

Laptop manufacturers need to wake up

One trend we noticed with a recent laptop game manufacturer is that they have just changed the laptop game and releases it for creative professionals who want the power offered by gaming laptops, but with more friendly aesthetics. Most, this is fine, but it has led to several mainstays of games such as Gigabyte Aero 15 which is thrown into creative instead of gamers because someone who makes their money on laptops they might spend more money than someone who wants to play fortnite with Ray Tracing is activated.

This has caused some beautiful laptops, such as the edition of the 15 studio blade razer. But, once again, while having several different security and graphic processors (like a quadro GPU), it’s still basically a gaming laptop with a layer of fresh paint.

But the MacBook Pro doesn’t. This laptop is designed from the bottom up for creative professionals, and has some considerations that will be a big problem, especially for people who need to remain mobile.

This is one thing that will be a strong MacBook Pro, but that might be more important is it will be efficient too. If Apple’s power efficiency claims are accurate, we will see some extraordinary battery life out of the new MacBook Pro, and it will make Intel and Nvidia sweat a little.