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Does anyone know the practical difference between these specs:

M1 Max: "Two ProRes encode and decode engines"
M1 Ultra: "Four ProRes encode and decode engines"

Thanks for some insight.
 
Does anyone know the practical difference between these specs:

M1 Max: "Two ProRes encode and decode engines"
M1 Ultra: "Four ProRes encode and decode engines"

Thanks for some insight.

Each M1 Max has two hardware encoders and two hardware decoders dedicated to the ProRes video format. As M1 Ultra is two M1 Max, it therefore offers double of everything in a single M1 Max.

I do not know if encoder/decoder performance scales in a linear fashion, but regardless, four of each will encode and decode ProRes video more quickly than two of each.
 
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This is going to sound like a really random question, but can you stream your desktop and work from a MBP or Studio to a monitor without a lead?
 
This is going to sound like a really random question, but can you stream from a MBP or Studio to a monitor without a lead?

Well there are third-party options like those from Luna Display that might allow this. And then there is SideCar for macOS and iPadOS.
 
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Why wouldn’t anyone just get a MBP and run an external display off that, instead of one of these studios?
Cheaper. The similarly configured MacBook Pro and Mac Studio are $900 different in price. Probably the screen and battery cost more. Also, the Mac Studio should have better thermals.
 
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Maybe they'll release a Mac Mini with the M1 Pro at WWDC? ?

I honestly doubt it. I expect the next Mac mini will use an M2 in the rumored new slimmer enclosure.

On the plus side, an M2 with 10GPU cores will likely be in the ballpark of a 14 GPU core M1 Pro. The 4 high-performance cores will still trail an M1 Pro with 8 performance cores (much less 10), but it will be closer.
 
Mac Studio is a must.. just hope the keep the noise down if you like me sit pretty close with your ear to it..
 
My guess is the Mac mini is receiving a redesign soon so they didn’t bother doing extra work for the M1 Pro variant. The redesign should come with M2, closing the gap between the M1 and the M1 Max.

Also, the M1 Ultra is the last variant of the M1 chip. I suspect the Mac Pro will have its own class of chips, e.g. X1, X1 Pro.
 
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Yet another Apple event with tons of Mac GPU talk and not one.. single.. solitary... game on display. Nothing even cursory or pathetic, like showing Skyrim running at 600fps. Just nothing. This company is allergic to traditional computer gaming.
Likely because it’s a creative tool, not a toy. Mac’s have never been geared to gamers. If I want to game, I’ll turn on my console.
 
In upcoming news, mass suicides by people who bought Mac Pro last year for $20K. /s

honest question, what is this replacing? its more powerful than iMac, and Apple made announcement its extremely faster than Mac Pros , so is it the new Mac Pro? If this is more powerful than Mac Pro (which is what Pro uses) then whats going to be in the Mac Pro?

If a Mac Pro is going to be coming, it will be as powerful as a mini nuclear reactor. Some one please clear the confusion for me.
 
In upcoming news, mass suicides by people who bought Mac Pro last year for $20K. /s

honest question, what is this replacing? its more powerful than iMac, and Apple made announcement its extremely faster than Mac Pros , so is it the new Mac Pro? If this is more powerful than Mac Pro (which is what Pro uses) then whats going to be in the Mac Pro?

If a Mac Pro is going to be coming, it will be as powerful as a mini nuclear reactor. Some one please clear the confusion for me.
I think most peoples hope is that it is more modular and can have added cards, drives, etc.
 
Did anyone notice the weight difference between the Studio Max and Ultra? 2lbs! That's gotta be for cooling, maybe some for the power supply.
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I mean I am completely for function over form, but that has to be one of the ugliest macs I have ever seen. Steve Jobs would have jumped out of Apple Park top window if he had seen this

Likely because it’s a creative tool, not a toy. Mac’s have never been geared to gamers. If I want to game, I’ll turn on my console.

I am sorry to break it to you, but originally Macs were frowned upon in the work place because it was viewed as a gaming computer back in the late 80s. Look it up!

but you are correct, since then it never was a gaming computer and I do not know why they avoid that path. I do not look forward for them to build Alienware type PCs but gaming is almost non-existing on MacOS. Even linux is a better gaming OS than Mac....LINUX!
 
In for 1:
:apple: Mac Studio M1 Max, 32gb RAM, 2TB SSD?
Used Edu discount + $320 gift card from a trade in of an old 2018 i3 Mac mini.
$2200 after tax, not bad. Will pair with an LG 5K
 
I wonder if my Studio (max) will run docker faster than my 2012 Mac mini (running Ubuntu). I suspect not. :oops:
 
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honest question, what is this replacing?

It is replacing the 27" iMac BTO configurations with the high-end Intel CPUs and AMD GPUs. In the end, you'll be paying a bit more, but you should see fairly better performance (both due to the M1 Max and as software is optimized for Apple silicon) and you can now keep your display through multiple computer upgrades so when you factor in the lifecycle costs over 4-5 years...
 
I am sorry to break it to you, but originally Macs were frowned upon in the work place because it was viewed as a gaming computer back in the late 80s. Look it up!
In the 80s, the Mac was viewed as a toy. If you could click a little icon to launch an app instead of typing in a DOS command, it wasn't considered "real" computing. ;-)

But Macs have never been considered "gaming" computers.
 
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