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


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The top youtubers are impressed.
 
I just got my M1 MacBook Pro... I have to say, so far it's stupid fast and really impressive.

Final Cut and Resolve fly. The battery life is also hard to believe.

Aside from dropping two ports... which I don't love... there's really nothing I miss out of my 2019 Intel MBP. After selling off the 2019, this machine will cost me like $200.
 
jbregar said:
I just got my M1 MacBook Pro... I have to say, so far it's stupid fast and really impressive.

Final Cut and Resolve fly. The battery life is also hard to believe.

Aside from dropping two ports... which I don't love... there's really nothing I miss out of my 2019 Intel MBP. After selling off the 2019, this machine will cost me like $200.
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Good feedback JB. I think I will hold out for the MBP 16" version, but this is encouraging news.
 
Tamerlin said:
The PC market has been following the camera market, frankly. For the most part, it's been held up by the gaming industry, which is about to get turned on its head when the newest gaming consoles promise (and appear to deliver) 4K gaming.

I wrote elsewhere that even if the Big Navi fell flat on its face, AMD would still win because of those consoles, since both consoles are based on custom AMD APUs with ray tracing accelerator hardware built in. Realtime 4K makes a $3000 PC kind of redundant in the face of a $600 console.
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People have been screaming "PC is doomed" for every new console generation for almost decades. And the consoles will settle for unstable 30 frames per second in 4K, because bling.
 
Pascal_Parvex said:
People have been screaming "PC is doomed" for every new console generation for almost decades. And the consoles will settle for unstable 30 frames per second in 4K, because bling.
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This is true. Also despite the Mac fanboys I have seen people saying they are moving from Intel Mac to PC's because they are fed up with Apple.
A lot of people who looked at the new Mac Pro pricing went to PC's.

So the jury is out for a while.
 
JAMedia said:
This is true. Also despite the Mac fanboys I have seen people saying they are moving from Intel Mac to PC's because they are fed up with Apple.
A lot of people who looked at the new Mac Pro pricing went to PC's.

So the jury is out for a while.
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Like myself, I think there is also a sizable audience who use both platforms. We use our 2018 and 2020 iMacs for editing with FCP X and Resolve
and we use our custom hot rod PCs for live streaming using vMix Live and Call. Both platforms have their advantages and disadvantages.

I am looking forward to comparing my recent $10k PC build with the Intel i9 10990 and the NVidia Quadro RTX6000 against the new M1 Macs with Resolve. I doubt if Resolve has
been re-compiled for the new M1 chipset yet which means it will run under Rosetta 2? Wonder which system will crunch through renders fastest? Obviously FCP X flies with the
new chipset, which will be interesting to experience as well.
 
I am looking forward to comparing my recent $10k PC build with the Intel i9 10990 and the NVidia Quadro RTX6000 against the new M1 Macs with Resolve. I doubt if Resolve has been re-compiled for the new M1 chipset yet which means it will run under Rosetta 2? Wonder which system will crunch through renders fastest? Obviously FCP X flies with the new chipset, which will be interesting to experience as well.
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Blackmagic Design has released a new beta of its popular DaVinci Resolve video editor and color correction tool with Apple Silicon support. This means that DaVinci Resolve will run natively on your M1-powered Mac when it arrives.
 
Can't wait to see what they do in 16" MBP, iMac, and Mac Pro.

Either way, just ordered my 5950x... had a stock alert on for a month and finally snagged one.
 
filmguy123 said:
Can't wait to see what they do in 16" MBP, iMac, and Mac Pro.

Either way, just ordered my 5950x... had a stock alert on for a month and finally snagged one.
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The rumors are currently a M1X chip that doubles the performance cores from 4 to 8 and keeps the same 4 efficiency cores for a total of 12 cores. This makes sense since 4 low power cores are probably all that is needed for simple tasks.

What the rumors are not saying right now is what that means for the GPU. On the CPU side the M1 is already extremely impressive and matches or beats most other mobile or desktop CPUs at a fraction of the heat and power. If the 16" really does double the performance cores we are looking at a CPU score that matches the 16 core Mac Pro in a super power efficient laptop.

Its the GPU power I'm a little concerned about. Apple spanked other integrated graphics and some lower end dedicated GPUs like the 560X and the 1050 but still falls short of even the 2060. Even if they doubled the GPU performance from 8 cores to 16 cores it may still not match the performance of the 2060 which we now find on low cost PC laptops. When it comes to FCPX it likely doesn't matter much since FCPX makes extremely good use of the M1 GPU and does better than eGPUs on Intel Macs right now which is insane. On the Resolve, Adobe, 3D rendering and gaming side however I think even doubling the GPU cores will still fall short. Hopefully Apple has another trick up its sleeve for the 16" GPU.

I also heard a rumor once that they are working on a Apple Silicon dedicated GPU for the iMac. Not sure what the heck that means yet but maybe by splitting up the CPU and GPU they can make the GPU use 32 cores which would compete very well with higher end Nvidia cards. They will likely use that in the new Mac Pro as well with the added benefit of adding multiple units of that GPU to the MP.

By the way these things are selling like hotcakes. A custom M1 with 16 GB will now not ship until the end of January. Maybe that time will get better after the holidays but every single Apple store within a 400 mile radius of where I live is sold out of every single M1 Mac. Its getting very hard to get one of these things.
 
I haven't even received mini yet and I'm already thinking of limitations that bother me. Mainly how to maintain a backup archive. My current Mac Pro I have 6 internal Sata ports.
sata 1: 1tb ssd system
sata 2: 10tb hard drive archive
sata 3: 10tb hard drive archive back up

For the mini I'll need either a external mirror raid or a dual drive dock. I've read drive docks have dreadful drive to drive performance like 5gbs.
The mini only has 2 thunderbolt ports. With a monitor I'm down to 1 port. If I use an external ssd enclosure now I have no more thunderbolt ports.
 
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If your work is that important that you're stressing about how you'll back everything up then I'd imagine the Mini isn't the best choice in the first place.

(Also has the two USB-A ports for consideration as well...at least something.)
 
Peter C. said:
I haven't even received mini yet and I'm already thinking of limitations that bother me. Mainly how to maintain a backup archive. My current Mac Pro I have 6 internal Sata ports.
sata 1: 1tb ssd system
sata 2: 10tb hard drive archive
sata 3: 10tb hard drive archive back up

For the mini I'll need either a external mirror raid or a dual drive dock. I've read drive docks have dreadful drive to drive performance like 5gbs.
The mini only has 2 thunderbolt ports. With a monitor I'm down to 1 port. If I use an external ssd enclosure now I have no more thunderbolt ports.
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Is it possible to daisy chain a monitor through a hard drive? I thought I read you could do **** like that now

Also - how fast do you need your archival backups to run? USB-a like NorBro said...
 
That depends on whether or not the hard drive has a TB3 passthrough on it. If so, then yes. If not, then you're stuffed.

Apple's SoC probably doesn't have enough PCIe lanes available... most likely an engineering decision driven by power consumption considerations.
 
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