Upon research it seems that the Base spec 14' Macbook Pro might suit us just fine.ġ4' Apple M1 Pro with 8-core CPU, 14-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engineīut I'm willing to pay more for a better editing experience if necessary so that makes me consider going with the starting M1 Max in the 14':ġ4' Apple M1 Max with 10-core CPU, 24-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engineīut that makes me wonder whether the 16' would have better cooling and battery to make the extra power wiser to get in the larger device.ġ6' Apple M1 Max with 10-core CPU, 24-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engineĭoes anyone have any insight into which spec might be perfect for our use case?Ĭompared to the M1 Pro, the M1 Max has double the media engines for hardware accelerated h.264, h.265 and Apple ProRes video formats. I also work in Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, and 3D modelling, but primarily video editing is where the choke point is. We typically only edit in 1080p but might do 4k more if our laptops actually let us. I don't particularly care about rendering time but rather what makes editing and playback the smoothest. We edit video in Premiere, maybe 10-20 hours a week. I'm not particularly concerned with real estate as we double monitor for larger projects. We are willing to spend on it but I don't think it may be necessary for us to fully max out and I'd somewhat prefer the 14' if possible but I'm willing to do 16' if it will make my life more pleasant in regards to editing and playback. I am trying to figure out the spec that would be best for our use case. We think that switching to Macbook Pro's might be the way to go.

To flesh out the title, both my husband and I have used Dell XPS 15's for years and I'm sick of lagging, glitchy playback in Premiere Pro.

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