I was hoping that Apple would put the power of the M1 Max in a big iMac. Upgrading all of them at once in a reliable, preconfigured package perfectly met my needs as a power user, not computer-tinkerer. From 2009 to 2017, with each new iMac I bought, everything got better processors, drive speed, displays. Split PersonalityĪs an iMac fan I never saw any downsides to the all-in-one design. Until the very day after I wrote the above, when Apple announced the Mac Studio. My desktops of choice for many years now have been highly-specced iMacs, culminating with Apple’s one-hit-wonder iMac Pro, which I spent Mac Pro money on and considered to be the ideal computer for my needs. My ideal laptop should be nimble, freeing my desktop to be a workstation, intractably entangled in a jumble of peripherals. I love having a separate desktop and laptop. ![]() ![]() It’s desk space and disk space, and most importantly, head space. It’s the power of side-by side displays that remind me in the morning of what I was working on the previous day, because nothing has moved and a dozen apps are still running. It’s speakers and microphones and ingesting CFAST while rapidly recalling raw files from fifteen years ago. What makes a computer powerful, for my workflow, is not just processing power. Last week, I reported that the answer turned out to be no: It performed so well, that I, along with many Mac power-users, questioned whether it could replace my desktop Mac. I think its too soon to understand these new SOCs and its relation with memory, but these new Macs are very promising.In October of 2021 I got to test a 14″ MacBook Pro with M1 Max processor. If you can, wait a bit more, YouTube are full of reviews of these machines now, soon enough some Resolume Brother will post a review of Resolume running natively on M1max, hopefully with lots of 4k outputs. Scrubbing 4k video on a heavy premiere project, the new Mac don't skip any frames.Ībout the 64GB on Mac, I really don't know if Resolume will use all this memory, but when I will go out to buy a new machine (especially long lasting Macs like my 2015mbp) I always thinks in specs that I will need 4 years from now, I always spend a lot of money in memory and ssd upgrades, I never regret about that. With the ram at 400gbs speeds, the new shared memory show its power in every image or movie retrieve. the new Macs beats the desktop in practically all the tests, even with some apps running in a emulate mode via rosetta. this guy compares some operations on this Mac and his desktop pc i9 11000 series 64Gb ram. Last week I have the opportunity to see a friend using photoshop, cinema 4d and after on the new m1max with 32Gigs of ram. To me, on my old mbp2015 with 16Gb of ram, Resolume do a very good job managing memory, even with large resolutions. My desktops are pcs, but for live performances I use Macs, not only because I hate windows, but I use VDMX too and this app only runs on macOS. I think I will not need more than 32 GB unified memory, hope this will be true for the next years! Is it CPU? Is it GPU? Is it memory bandwidth? Is it OpenGL’s single-thread rendering? Who knows? I don’t. ![]() But, unified memory is a new idea and no one really knows how to think about it or predict with any level of certainty what amount you need or what the impact will be, because regular people like us don’t know where the bottlenecks are. But, until you test two different machines and compare them side-by-side, you can’t really know what the exact differences are. So, yes, there is a cause and effect relationship between unified memory and some types of performance in Resolume. But, the CPU and GPU were maxed out at 95%+. But, it was only using 12-13GB of unified memory. On an M1 with 16GB of unified memory, Resolume would let me have (9) 1280x720p24 slices out NDI. On an M1 with 8GB of unified memory, Resolume would let me have (6) 1280x720p24 slices out NDI.
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