I'm glad I took a chance and bought a renewed macbook pro, it only had an hour of use and looked perfect.
This is my first Apple computer and I'm impressed with the performance across the board. I edit a lot of video and have a 16core PC that I also edit with, but it even with maxed out everything, it still requires pre-rendering to view in Adobe Premiere. The same project previews in real time with no lag on the macbook (4k120fps 10bit). Amazing. It can't encode as fast as the workstation, but that's fine. I was able to edit literally 10x faster by avoiding proxies and/or pre-renders. That alone was worth it for me.
What Apple got right under the hood was eliminating the bottlenecks that exist between your memory, cpu, data buses, drives and RAM. It moves data fast from start to finish and programs like Premiere really benefit from it.
Other pros are the battery life. I've worked all day including encoding video and rarely run out of juice. Easily the best battery performance of any laptop I've ever owned.
The screen is fantastic, but does pick up smudges from the keyboard when closed that's a little annoying.
Sound is actually good too, with good volume, bass and clarity. Again, best I've seen in a laptop anywhere.
The OS takes a little getting used to coming from PC but you learn new workflows and often they're better too.
It's easy to justify getting the best specs your budget can afford if you're working with video, even so the M1, 16GB RAM, 1 TB model gives me enough performance and storage to work the way I want to. I find myself setting up remote software like parsec and remoting in to do PC work from the Macbook which frees me from the office to work.
Highly recommend.
| Standing screen display size | 16 Inches |
|---|---|
| Screen Resolution | 3456 x 2234 |
| Max Screen Resolution | 3456 x 2234 Pixels |
| Processor | 3.1 GHz apple_m1 |
| RAM | 16 GB DDR3 |
| Hard Drive | 1 TB SSD |
| Graphics Coprocessor | Apple M1 Pro |
| Chipset Brand | Apple |
| Card Description | Integrated |
| Wireless Type | Bluetooth, 802.11ax |
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 3 |
| Average Battery Life (in hours) | 4 years |
