Apple M2 Max - a worthy upgrade from M1 Max? 

At 8:05 aren't M1 Max 32c and M2 Max 38c labels interchanged by any chance? (Sorry, I don't really understand how the newer generation could be slower in those tests) Great video, and thanks for the new upload btw! :)

I‘m happy with M1 Max 16 inch as well, and it‘s crazy what we‘re able to do with M2 Ultra and 130gb VRAM + rest to 192 normal Ram usage. Crazy. 🙌

I love your direct, no frills reviews. Keep it up!

Great video as always, when is the Podcast coming back though?

Good see you back on these comparisons. Not sure the GB6 compute slide at 8:05 is correct though. M2 Ultra next?

I have the 14" M1 Pro, only upgrades are 32GB Ram and a 1TB SSD. I won't be upgrading for a very long time, it is absolutely incredible.

Good video, thanks for covering the snapiness aspect. I got M1, then M1 max first day with 32 GB Ram. I have not had any issue pushing the machine with mostly coding work. Running multiple projects and docker containers is easy peasy. I don't think twice about opening anything including Mobile simulators while having multiple projects open. I think the only thing that would make me upgrade is faster single core performance. And unless M3 blows away M1 and makes it obsolete I will most likely only be interested in an M4 machine or even an M5.

Great job. There are a lot of benchmark results that we can all find. It would be even more interesting if you could document apps that are key to people's profession e.g. Xcode, Photoshop, Illustrator, Logic, etc. Many of us would be very impacted by one of these apps and it would nice to have an in depth understanding before updating. E.g. Someone using Xcode might be interested in small and large project compile times, clean vs. incremental compile times, SwiftUI preview refresh times, etc. Thanks!

Great video! Thank you for sharing!

For those of us that got into computing 50 plus years ago, both machines are magical. I will keep my M1 Max 64GB 4 TB 16” for a couple more years.

Thanks for the great video.

Love the episode.

With the most recent 33% or so price drops at B&H and other stores the M1 Max is looking like an incredibly good deal....I think I'll pick one up. What color do you think I should get?

I have a M1 Mac studio and an M1 MBA, both base models. The Studio is used at home for office stuff and photo editing. I edit 40 MP RAW files but don't load up many at the same time, nor do much complex stuff, so everything is pretty much instant. M3 machines will probably behave much the same as my M1s given the way I use them. The question is, what can Apple produce that will make it worth me replacing these machines?

For me the main thing is how the laptop looks physically, and how good the screen and battery life are. Hence I was looking to buy Macbook Air M2 24 GB ram, on ebay which was costing about $1800, but I stumbled on a brand new M1 Macbook pro 1tb, so i got that for about the same price. I lose 6gb in ram and the slickness of the air, but other features on the macbook pro are worth it if its for the same price I feel.

Thank you for the video!!

Any difference with the addition of WiFi 6E on the M2 Max?

Quadro RTX 5000 launched on August 13th, 2018.

Can’t wait to see the M3 generation!

I use the base M1 MacBook Air for music production and I can’t break it with my sessions. Amazing for $599 used 😊Great content here

I may have missed it in the video but what about performance/watt ?

I think for pure video editing, there is no equivalent to the M2 Max that can provide the same level of performance and efficiency. It's black or white. For most other tasks, it depends, benefiting PCs (with 12/13Gen Intel and 4000 Nvidia GTX).

Great vid

I went into Currys and found that out of the 4 models of MacBook that they sold all but one had the minimum 256 Gb of flash memory and all had 8 Gb of RAM. Even my cheap hand me down gaming PC has 16 Gb of RAM and a 2 Tb SSD. Apple understand that in the real world giving a system a faster, bigger SSD and lots of RAM is more important than giving it lots of CPU cores and yet the vast majority of Macs sold in stores have bottom end SSDs and RAM. To me any M1 system with a large SSD and RAM would be better than any M2 system that had been deprived of a larger faster SSD and lots of RAM.

Thank you, geek.

I have a fully spec'd 2019 16" 64GB RAM 5600M. I bought it for $4700 in 2020, 1 year before the M1 Max came out. Should I upgrade to the M1 Max or wait for the M3 Max? I will mainly use it for coding. I feel like I haven't fully utilized my Intel 16" but at the same time, the step up to AS is quite monumental. And also, the M1 Max is on sale for $1400 off.

Awesome tech with phenomenal Apple silicon performance

hi, docking station for mbp m1 max, many usc port lan and dp or mini dp, why do you don t make a video ? Many ppl looking for a good docking station. Ciao from italy

Who on earth upgrades their computers every year or so? In my profession even once every three years is hard to justify economically. I’m stuck with my functioning high spec 2020 iMac 27” until the M3 MacBookPro to replace my 2016 MacBookPro (PS - the Touch Bar was a brilliant innovation for BIM)

(I'm very very happy with my M1 Max MBP, so I'm not sure that I really want to watch this!)

Soon it will be the M2 v the M3 then the M3 v the M4 and it will never be enought for some people, even if their cars could travel at 1000 miles an hour, it wouldnt be fast enough.

I’ll upgrade from my MacBook Pro M1 to something that gives me a 50% improvement in possibly the next four years

M2 Max should really be called M1.5 Max, not much of an upgrade - i'm waiting for M3 with hopefully 3nm chips before I upgrade from M1 Max

So loads of synthetic benchmarks that really don’t say that much about real world performance but only a short mention about how fast it is in video editing compared to you workstation??? That’s the only important one!!! Please stop doing geekbench and cinebench, show us real world workflows!!!

11:03 M3 Max 18 month away? 😂

The M3 is for 3D and games. If you don't need that, the M2 is fine. GPU cores don't really help compared to standard add-on PC graphics cards.

Too marginal to upgrade.