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MOST POWERFUL MacBook vs PC Laptop (RIP Windows?)



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MacBooks have always been overpriced, slow, and they can’t even get over 95 FPS when gaming on Counterstrike… At least, that is what’s been thrown around internet forums for the better part of the last decade. With Apple’s new M3 Max chips though, are those shiny MacBooks finally able to compete with Intel and Nvidia’s most powerful systems?

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FOR THIS VIDEO:
Q: There are cheaper Windows laptops with similar performance to the Legion 9i, why didn’t you use them?
A: Sure, but I only own the Legion 9i, and didn’t want to spend thousands more on a new one lol. The 9i also has a very comparable screen to the M3 Max MacBook Pro (3.2k resolution and Mini-LED screen). Regardless, price is not what I’m comparing in this video. I’m mostly interested in raw performance (but yes, you can get a similarly powerful Windows laptop for 20-40% cheaper than the M3 Max).

Q: During the Resident Evil gaming comparison, why did you enable DLSS on the Legion laptop? Wouldn’t it be fairer to disable this because the Mac does not support it?
A: I think it’s more unfair to intentionally handicap the Legion by disabling DLSS. If you’re playing on an RTX GPU, you are going to enable DLSS. The Mac has no raytracing support yet on games, so this is a realistic representation of real-life differences. There is also no DLSS option for “quality” on the Windows machine either.

Q: You look like an Apple fanboy, therefore all the data in this video is inaccurate/fake/biased.
A: IDGAF, and also feel free to compare the results in this video to other publicly available data/benchmarks/results. I did this before releasing the video to cross-reference my findings. I’m confident this video paints an accurate picture of (most) differences.

Q: Why did you compare Intel 13th generation CPUs instead of the new 2024 Intel Ultra lineup?
A: Pretty simple lol – the Ultra lineup was released about 4 days before I uploaded this video. Also, the high-performance Ultra CPUs have not even been announced, let alone the laptops they will ship in.

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00:00 Introduction
01:02 A Few Things…
03:05 CPU Performance
04:23 Creative Workflows
05:31 LESTRANGE Clothes
06:58 Video Editing
08:13 3D Workflows
09:44 Gaming
11:55 Fan Noise and Heat
13:07 Efficiency
13:55 Performance on Battery
14:17 The Future

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49 Comments

  1. The day when i'll be able to play the amount of games that are avaliable for windows on a macbook (ignoring the humiliating more powerful gpu that gamer laptops have) then i will think stop laughing on the face of apple (obviosly i would never buy anything from a mercenary company that rips off their clients)

  2. lol youre looking for an apple-optimized game when it comes to laptops but iphones are being better than androids just for their camera works better on instagram🤡🤡🤡

  3. Apple's getting better, but prices are still fucked, plus, correct me if im wrong, but you're using the Legion i9 unplugged, which it's already very clear that macs run on battery better than windows (for the most part).

  4. almost any pc above 500usd can do task that doesn't require gpu easily. The thing that you can only get if you pay so much, are gpus. And the m3 chip gpu is only like rtx 3060

  5. Wondering when “gaming” will stop being part of comparisons with a Mac. I guess maybe when the competing windows machine is a mobile workstation and not an rgb monstrosity with a hilarious trackpad and weird keyboard forehead.

  6. Anyone that knows there way around a computer knows they can Build a computer that will be faster and better in every way for less than half the price and be able to upgrade and fix that pc for years to come, so people that buy Apple phones or Macs are Uninformed People, Because why would you buy something that's not fixable or upgradable and the accessories cost a small fortune and the units themselves can cost up to triple the price?

  7. Apple makes beauties with their own processors and optimized OS, but they throw all of that with their hostile repair, upgrade or maintenance techniques. The battery wouldn't be the same after some years and physical condition due to dust and heat degradation, maintaining the MacBook Pro until software support is ended is harder.

  8. It blows my mind how people like "hurr durrr windows laptops better cause it can game!" When Apple MacBooks, for the longest time, were mainly focused on creativity/productivity, they obviously would need to improve at gaming. It was not until relatively recently that they made a more concerted effort to play games on Mac, so it is also not surprising that a MacBook, from a company whose life had been centered on those creatives/productivity, will not have the best gaming performance. For a short time, Apple has been more focused on gaming, and I'd say they've come a long way. Obviously, they still have an even longer way to go, but where they are now is impressive without a dedicated GPU.

  9. So this means either the Intel's or nvidias tech is just old bullshit and making fool , or just there's a cache with apple wafer . Please make a video of the technology and why does nvidia need such cooling rather than apple

  10. the m3 mac is useless it has no gaming support right now so its not a complete device its an incomplete product , consumer want what games they can enjoy right now just out of the box not in future

  11. sad to see that N Vidia's values over the years have been declining little by little as their pockets grow fuller and fuller, back when they came out of the GTX 1000s series they promised us a growth over the customer side but now as I see more and more of their products getting wrecked by most competitors I think it is time to switch to Apple ( for work at least )

  12. macbook is good until i run Android Studio its a fucking worthless peice of metal junck wich if good for nothing but watching porn and wath videos in the name of productivity.
    you worthless looser oh sorry productive creatures.

  13. Dude wtf you talking about?
    Only cuz apple is lame and guves you 70w charging brick, doesnt mean it uses less power, its just that the windows laptop will charge the battery quicker, which is good if you previously said it dies faster, then it charges faster so we heppy

    Plus, whos gonna game on the go, like yes it drops on performance but like, youre not gonna game on your lap in the car, and if youre on train, there is a charging port, if you travel, youll get banned for producing a fire hazard on both laptops, and if youre at home, you just plug it in, whats the point, like yes, youll get worse performance on battery, but you never use that performance for extensive time without being able to charge, so it doesnt matter, like who da fuck cares

  14. Dude wtf you talking about?
    Only cuz apple is lame and guves you 70w charging brick, doesnt mean it uses less power, its just that the windows laptop will charge the battery quicker, which is good if you previously said it dies faster, then it charges faster so we heppy

  15. Dude wtf you talking about?
    Only cuz apple is lame and guves you 70w charging brick, doesnt mean it uses less power, its just that the windows laptop will charge the battery quicker, which is good if you previously said it dies faster, then it charges faster so we heppy

  16. Even if you were to buy the mac for games, no dev is such a dumbass to support macs, like for the 2 downloads they get, even if they will be better in performance, no body cares, nobody will bother optimizing the game for mac, paradox didnt release the sequel of cities skylines on mac, that highlights that they didnt get enough downloads, gaming is just made for windows and linux joins the party, macs are made if only then for office men who aint know that they spend far too much money on their hardware but they dont kniw cuz their economic dude they hired also uses a mac

  17. You should use a laptop that has amd, cuz theyre fucking fast and freaking efficient, so you seem to have chosen this one just to show us that mac is better, cuz intel uses more power, but actually, amd uses less than both sillicon and intel, so that wouldnt prove your point

  18. The thing is, intel is no longer the king in cpu, apple never was. Amd is currently the fastest, but snapdragon is joining the game as Windows on arm currently takes off, so dear mac users, wait for 3 years and you'll see windows laptops outperforming macs even when unplugged… we all know how bad Intel gets without a wall adapter, but arm is just a tiny bit better than x86_64

  19. now it's not a secret for ARM based chip to have more efficiency. x86-64 are different playing fields. Mac would die when all company shift into ARM, there just no real competition yet, and when it comes they will bring unnecessary crap like lidar on phones.

  20. Define OS X being more 'locked down' as an OS compared to Windows please.

    One is semi open source. The other is completely proprietary.

    No question about hardware. Apple sucks with their nickel a diming practices.

  21. Ive never bought a laptop without upgrading the ram myself, its much cheaper to get a laptop with something like 8gb of ram and then put 32 in urself than to buy the laptop with 32.