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Is MacBook Pro M1 Pro & Max GOOD FOR ENGINEERS?



The M1 Pro chip is a more powerful companion to the M1, with six to eight performance cores, two efficiency cores, 14 to 16 GPU cores, 16 Neural Engine cores, up to 32 GB unified RAM with up to 200 GB/s memory bandwidth, and more than double the transistors. It was announced on October 18, 2021, and is used in the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro. Apple said the CPU performance is about 70% faster than the M1, and that its GPU performance is about double. Apple claims the M1 Pro can deliver up to 20 streams of 4K or 7 streams of 8K ProRes video playback (up from 6 offered by Afterburner card for 2019 Mac Pro).

The M1 Max chip is a larger version of the M1 Pro chip, with eight performance cores, two efficiency cores, 24 to 32 GPU cores, 16 Neural Engine cores, up to 64 GB unified RAM with up to 400 GB/s memory bandwidth, and more than double the number of transistors. It was announced on October 18, 2021, and is used in the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro. Apple says it has 57 billion transistors. Apple claims the M1 Max can deliver up to 30 streams of 4K (up from 23 offered by Afterburner card for 2019 Mac Pro) or 7 streams of 8K ProRes video playback.

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  1. Hi Martin, I like watching your videos and I follow you as we have a similar profession technically. I want to ask you a few questions:

    I am a mechanical engineer and I need to use solidworks. I'm using an Asus laptop and I think it's old enough. I like the Macbook Pro M1 to the point of confusion. Technically, I know that Solidworks is not running on the M1 processor, but I do not know how efficient it would be to run Solidworks using intermediaries such as Parallels. The Macbook's design and battery life and other things are very attractive. Finally, I am learning python and doing data analysis in excel.

    In line with all this, I am looking for a reliable laptop that I can use for many years.

    Can you share your thoughts on this?

  2. It is actually ridiculous apple isn't pursuing engineers with this amount of power. They would sell so many macs it is ridiculous.

    Hopefully in another year or two we can get something wild form them.

  3. Saw your first video about M1 for engineers and the fact you bought a new mic and got a better camera instantly made me give you a like and sub. Good job Martin!

  4. Видео не отвечает на тему в заголовке этого видео. Пересказ всех характеристик ноутбука!
    гуано.

  5. If you are upgrading to 10c CPU, kind as well get the extra 2GPU cores for extra $100 especially since it’s a $2k-$3k purchase.

    Agreed that 16GB is sufficient for most but specific demanding tasks.

    Unless you work on ML … M1Max would be useful, but NVida Cuda cores are more optimized for M with visa cores libs support.

    Also invest in a 90Wh+ 87-100W USBC PD powerbank to take your portability to the next level!

  6. Thank you for your video !
    I have two extern displays.
    I work on Autocad LT generally with a lot of DWG files open (1 file I work on it on the main display and 5 or 10 files open on the other display) with Excel and PDF files open too.
    So I I’m not sure if I would take the M1 pro or max and with 16 or 32Go of RAM ? Difficult choice, could you help me ?

  7. This video does not answer the main question in the title – whether the laptop is good for engineers or not.
    To answer this question you need to INSTALL and TEST multiple engineering applications (preferably, from various engineering fields) to confirm whether the laptop can run them or not.
    If we speak about ARM MacBooks, they are NOT good for engineering in general because MacOS doesn't support LOTS of professional engineering software.
    And, most importantly, ARM macbooks CANNOT run NATIVE Windows 10 or 11 (x86) via bootcamp (just like Intel macs could before). The only workaround left is running Windows on ARM via Papallels, which has following drawbacks:
    1) Limited native apps for ARM architecture;
    2) Ability to run x86 and x64 apps only via in-built emulation layer, which is extremely SLOWING DOWN applications;
    3) Limited x64 apps support (most of them are crashing or cannot run properly or even install).
    As a result of the aforementioned, it is is a very poor Windows experience on ARM Macs and, hence, very low chance of running and making full advantage of ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS (which are x86 and x64 basically) on ARM MACS.
    Moreover, the more powerful nature of M1 Pro & Max chips doesn't play a big role fo ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS just because you still don't have the ability to utilize their ifull power via NATIVE Windows x86. You simply cannot run most of engineering applications on Windows on ARM!
    And by saying ENGINEERING applications, we mean mainly: AUTOCAD, SOLIDWORKS, REVIT, CATIA, ANSYS, MATHCAD, HYSYS, numerous CFD modeling apps and others.
    SO, BE WARNED, AND DON'T BUY MACS FOR ENGINEERING!!! (except for some specific use case if you need only AutoCAD maybe)

  8. Hello bro , i just completed bachelor in mechanical engineering and i have learnt AUTOCAD, SOLIDWORKS, CATIA AND ANSYS while im in collage itself ,now i wanted to do master in designing so im confused with perticular course and specilization can u guide me
    PLEASE