Apple dumps Intel and shows Final Cut Pro on new Mac with Apple CPU !

[Clermond]

I do kind of wish that the MBP had kept an SD card slot. The latest or upcoming sd card standards are really fast and that would be such an easy and unobtrusive way to pop in a couple of TBs

I didn't use it after I realized that the sharp edges of the slot tend to damage the SD cards. It's even worse on the iMac where the slot is on the back and you don't see what you do when you sit in front of the computer. The SDXC cards have these thin plastic dividers and they cut very easily. I have had average two broken cards per year but since I use a cheapo USB plastic reader none.

 

[Clermond]

True, I keep thinking about the MBP13, but the MBA is kind of no joke either. I guess, the MBP13 just has more ports is all, and a bit more horse power, should I need to review 8K raw playback smoothly.

I asked my dealer before ordering: the only difference between the 8core MBA and the 13!"MBP is a higher battery capacity and and fan and off course 200€. You might have a better performance with the MBA when it comes to power consuming tasks an the fan kicks in. Also 400 vs 500nits. The both have only 2 tb/USB4 ports

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I just saw someone wrote that before

 

[joe1946]

I will keep using my current external SSD drives with my M1 Mac Mini (16GB, 1TB) and wait for Samsung to come out with USB4 NVMe drives like the new 980 Pro. Here is a shot from 2014 of my Mac Pro with a ThunderBolt 2 drive that was the fastest external drive back then.

 

[NorBro]

You can put any SSD into a casing and call it an external, so it really depends on what drive was in there.

Some of the fastest options back then were mostly "special orders" costing over $10,000 (which had faster R/W than off the shelf).

Of course any premade consumer drives like above weren't that much money.

 

[Guest]

I will keep using my current external SSD drives with my M1 Mac Mini (16GB, 1TB) and wait for Samsung to come out with USB4 NVMe drives like the new 980 Pro. Here is a shot from 2014 of my Mac Pro with a ThunderBolt 2 drive that was the fastest external drive back then.

Pretty sexy looking setup. not gonna lie.

 

[Guest]

I asked my dealer before ordering: the only difference between the 8core MBA and the 13!"MBP is a higher battery capacity and and fan and off course 200€. You might have a better performance with the MBA when it comes to power consuming tasks an the fan kicks in. Also 400 vs 500nits. The both have only 2 tb/USB4 ports

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I just saw someone wrote that before

All the same, thank you!

Between what you and Norbro said, I think the MBP13 m1 is the choice for me, if I jump in this winter. The fans for performance may, just may, be right. But the MBA will never have a fan noise issue onset, so, choices... haha.

 

[Guest]

Or you'll be editing directly on your iPhone right after you finish shooting...

Totally. back in 2015 (or maybe early 2016) I did a bunch with shooting, editing, coloring, and posting to social all within the iPhone. It is pretty easy, and very fast for most types of things.

These might have been the iPhone 5s or 6. can't remember, but the compression is old instagram 15 seconds days. All free hand, as even back then the iPhone motion stabe was pretty great.

 

[Guest]

^QuikhitRecord may know that spot well. I shot this probably a couple days before we met.

 

[joe1946]

You can put any SSD into a casing and call it an external, so it really depends on what drive was in there.

Some of the fastest options back then were mostly "special orders" costing over $10,000 (which had faster R/W than off the shelf).

Of course any premade consumer drives like above weren't that much money.

It was $1,299 from B&H back in 2014.

 

[Guest]

It was $1,299 from B&H back in 2014.

That's a pretty bad ass drive. Love the thermals and daisy chain features.

The second review knows showmanship. "look at my eyes -blinks- that's one second." lol. love it.

 

[NorBro]

Yeah, that might have been at the top of the list back then.

There are two SSDs in it (in a RAID).

One equaled the I/O of what the best consumer drives had around that time @ ~600MB/s or so.

 

[Clermond]

It was $1,299 from B&H back in 2014.

off topic: I will never ever touch anything with the name LaCie on it.

 

[puredrifting]

I concur, LaCie sucks for reliability.

 

[JAMedia]

I agree, LaCie sucks for reliability.
We ended up ditching the interfaces and cases as they failed but after re-formatting used the HDD's for some years more.
Now it's all SSD's and M2 cards other than the Raid Array's

 

[Carlos Morillo]

I've had LaCie units fail me twice.

 

[Run&Gun]

off topic: I will never ever touch anything with the name lacie on it.

i concur, lacie sucks for reliability.

i agree, lacie sucks for reliability.
We ended up ditching the interfaces and cases as they failed but after re-formatting used the hdd's for some years more.
Now it's all ssd's and m2 cards other than the raid array's

i've had lacie units fail me twice.

j u n k

 

[Thomas Smet]

I'm waiting to see what impact the fan less design has on the MBA in terms of performance. If it didn't impact performance at all why would the 13" MBP also not be fan less? Right now leaning towards a MBP for that reason but we will see.

Also just read that even in emulation Rosetta mode the multicore score is slightly faster than my 6 core 2018 Mac Mini so consider me super impressed. I will also add the Mac mini scores on Apples website are a tad misleading. They are based on the i3 version of the Mac Mini and compared to the 6 core i7 only slightly faster. So if one already has a i7 Mac mini with a eGPU these new Mac minis are not really an upgrade at all. Once you factor in the base i3 cost and not needing a eGPU for decent GPU performance they are amazing. The 2018 Mini really needs a eGPU to even be remotely usable for anything outside web surfing. The M1 Mini could be a decent edit system out of the box for less than what the i3 cost before.

I'm also excited about render farm setups with the Mini. Having better than i7 performance at a i3 cost Mini means lot for 3D render farm setups or editors that don't mind having two or three systems to move around to while the other(s) are rendering. If one works on a ton of projects quickly moving two or three M1 Minis and external storage would allow more projects to get done quickly vs a much faster MP tower.

 

[ahalpert]

Totally. back in 2015 (or maybe early 2016) I did a bunch with shooting, editing, coloring, and posting to social all within the iPhone. It is pretty easy, and very fast for most types of things.

These might have been the iPhone 5s or 6. can't remember, but the compression is old instagram 15 seconds days. All free hand, as even back then the iPhone motion stabe was pretty great.

very pretty composition/movement/color and a nice sense of drama. that model looks video as hell though unless it's the IG compression

 

[JAMedia]

j u n k

The thing that I recall was LaCie doing several sales of refurbished stock over a period of a year or two.
I thought how come they have so much refurbished stock? Obviously so much had been failing and come back under warrantee.
That (other than all the LaCie failures we had) put them on the black list for us.
Though as I noted above the Seagate(?) hard drives they used didn't fail and we used them for years after the LACie cases had gone.

 

[puredrifting]

The thing that I recall was LaCie doing several sales of refurbished stock over a period of a year or two.
I thought how come they have so much refurbished stock? Obviously so much had been failing and come back under warrantee.
That (other than all the LaCie failures we had) put them on the black list for us.
Though as I noted above the Seagate(?) hard drives they used didn't fail and we used them for years after the LACie cases had gone.

I actually credit LaCie drive failures for taking years of my life from stress. Those silver ones with the blue eye power light. Oh holy crap did those damn drives
cause me ridiculous stress when you have a film studio building a whole PR and ad campaign around you delivering your master to them.