For well over 15 years, I’ve believed in the Mac. I know, I sound like the first scene in The Godfather, but hear me out.. Bought my first MacBook Pro in 2009 when I decided to do RU-vid seriously. Upgraded in 2012 when the Retina Display was just irresistible. That particular model was so good, that it helped me edit nearly 1800 videos over the next five years. That said, I’ll admit I did fully commit to a switch after Microsoft reached out to get me to try a Dell that was double the price, along with Premiere Pro, but that didn’t last. Even with so much horse power, and all the granularity in the Adobe Creative Suite, I showed them that I could edit the same video in half the time on a five-year-old Mac with Final Cut Pro.
And listen, I’m not saying the Mac was perfect at the time. Actually, my later experiences with three 15-inch Touch Bar models only proved they were far from it. I’m also not saying competing platforms in both hardware and software are bad. Apple has just catered to creators for far longer than its competitors in its vertical integration of creative software for its hardware. Yes, the 16-inch model came to save face at the tail end, but my choice to stick to the Mac was mainly a practical one. I’ve noticed Apple’s software was just easier to use, which totally lured me as a beginner, but then if we’re honest, neither platform was what I’d would call free of compromise back in the day, and especially when it came to its laptops.
The last thing I would’ve ever expected was for Apple Silicone to be such a paradigm shift for the industry. Here I was in 2020 buying the cheapest MacBook Air and Pro for review, thinking they’d be a minor step up from their intel predecessors in just being good computers for the average Joe, but boy was I wrong. The moment I saw a $999 entry-level and fan-less machine completely smoke my $5000 Intel variant, I was hooked. These chips had finally cracked the code in giving you a true desktop performance on a laptop, that could then actually last all day on battery power. Yes, competitors have spent the last 4 years trying to catch up. We’re finally about to see some decent competition from Microsoft and Qualcomm, but a lot of their benchmarks have me thinking that even their best offerings are still years behind from what I’ve been using these last couple of months.
This is the M3 Max MacBook Pro, what Apple calls as Mind Blowing and Head Turning, and what I’m gonna call probably the closest I’ve ever seen to the perfect laptop. I know, there is no such thing, but what if I told you it’s closer than you think? I’m Jaime Rivera with Pocketnow, and let me explain to you why in our extended review
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1 июн 2024
