Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “M3 Max MacBook Pro Review: Its Time to Upgrade”.
Today’S video is sponsored by epidemic, sound, hey everyone Travis here, and this is the new 16-in Macbook Pro now, we’ve seen space black type colors before and Apple’s made many variations of those colors over the years on various products, and I continue to have the joke of Apple having 50 Shades of space gray, because it seems like every type of gray, space, Gray, space, black or jet black type color is different in some kind of way. We also got the second revision in the same year with M3 and in particular, this computer has the M3 Max. I’Ve had this machine since late October, and I put it through the task of being my everyday Mac since then, and I have to say it’s a complete Beast. The next few videos are going to be quite heavy as I’m going to do. My long-term review of the M2 15-in MacBook Air, as well as my first look at the M3 iMac, so make sure to subscribe and keep an eye out for those videos all right.
So I’m going to break this down into parts because there is a lot to unpack here. First things: first, the last 16-in MacBook I’ve used was the 2021 M1 Max MacBook Pro, which I used for about a month as my primary computer, and I honestly have to say since seeing this computer and using it as my everyday machine, I do miss the 16-in Size quite a bit previously to that I owned a 2019 16-in MacBook Pro with a core. I 9 chip in it, and I love that computer. The speakers were phenomenal. The display was great, but man that computer can cook your legs and, speaking of cooking your legs, I think that’s the reason why Apple now refers to these machines as laptops on the website, rather than notebooks, as they previously would for years on years.
Apple would refer to their MacBooks as notebooks. Not laptops like PCS would be, and I think it’s because Apple didn’t want people to put these on their lap if they were going to cook and get super hot with those Intel chips. Now that we’re in the era of Apple silicon and these fans barely ever ramp up now, they can call them laptops again.
Reverting back to the 16-in MacBook really made me miss the display quality and speakers which in this case are the most beefy on any MacBook. The super Retina xdr Display here is amazing and I love its contrast and its HDR capabilities, especially because I love me some good HDR enjoying content. All the way up to editing and creating content is a dream on this display and, to be honest with you, because of this screen and the performance of this machine. It’S basically my Mac Studio behind me and my Pro display to go colors are, and it’s a step up, that’s pretty noticeable compared to the Intel models of your. The new M3 models also feature a slightly brighter SDR brightness at 600 nits compared to the 500 nits that we’ve had for years now, 600 nits for SDR content is very bright and obviously I’ll. Take that bump anywhere.
I can get it, but the thing I appreciate here is now: it will match a studio display side by side. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a laptop display that is on this level and that 500 to 600 knit bump that we got also is very noticeable. Even on everyday tasks and watching movies watching YouTube videos and even playing back stuff that we’ve made, it looks amazing and the companion to this display, which is the speakers in this machine, really goes together like peanut butter and jelly. The speakers in this machine are great, really really great. It’S honestly shocking to me how much sound comes out of this MacBook. Yes, there is six speakers here, but the implementation and placement of the speakers is great because you never really feel like the chassis is rattling.
Even though that there is quite a bit of low end, that comes out of a machine this thin and when you step it up to Atmos content like a really good, Atmos, music mix or a movie, you get an actual depth and spatial feeling from this machine. That makes it sound, like the speakers are way further out than the speakers actually are. Definitely get that feeling of spatial audio where things are zooming around you and you’re questioning, where the speakers are located now rounding out all the physical features of this machine. We also, of course, have our 1080p FaceTime camera and it has the ISP of the M3 and the image quality is is good and we also have those studio, quality mics, which are really really good. So if you need to do any Zoom calls or FaceTime calls from this machine, it’s going to look and sound great. What also sounds really great is music from today’s sponsor epidemic.
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With that 3 nanometer chip in all its Glory, let’s talk about one last external feature, the finish of this machine a couple weeks ago I did an unboxing and first impressions, video and in that video I compared it to some other devices. It’S hard to tell over video to see an exact finished color of an aluminum machine, but it for sure is darker than space gray, but it’s not truly space black. So if you were hoping for a Macbook that was in the color of iPhone 7’s jet black, this isn’t it, and I know this is going to sound super stupid.
But the color to me on this machine being a little bit. Darker comes across a little bit. More Pro to me, especially because now that Intel space gray era is over, we are in the performance and the capability of Apple silicon, and this color matches perfectly with that, and I love it, and the other thing to talk about here is fingerprints. This machine really doesn’t attract fingerprints nearly as bad as the midnight MacBook Air. Now, of course you can see dust and you can see fingerprints, but it’s not like that. Macbook Air color was now.
Let’S talk battery life Apple, packed the biggest battery they possibly could to meet the fa requirement for a flying with a notebook which is a 100 wat hours in this machine, and it’s really great now, just like any other device. Keep your battery life expectations in check because, just like anything else, no matter what you’re doing with it will result in how good or how bad the battery life is going to be now doing things. Like writing the script for this video looking at notes, calendar events listening to Apple music, surfing the web, clickup notifications, mail, all that stuff.
This thing will last for several days, but if you pick up the anti a little bit and you’re in resolve or Final Cut, editing, 4K or higher resolution, video with multiple codecs and color grades and you’re editing photos in Photoshop and Lightroom and Capture One or you’re. In logic doing a session, the battery life is going to be less than what it would be if you were doing those other things. So it really is a mileage may very type thing and of course, Apple has numbers on the website that refer to the video streaming time and audio streaming time on the website and those are for specific tasks for a specific amount of time.
So your mileage may vary, but in my case, when you’re doing light tasks, it’s going to last for days, and I didn’t even really have to think about charging it when you’re using much more heavy applications and you’re pushing this thing hard, especially that GPU the battery Life will be less and honestly, if you’re going to be in that situation, you’re going to be plugged into a display or you’re going to be plugged into that mag safe charger, and it’s not going to be that big of a deal. What is a big deal is I went deep on benchmarks to the point where it became an entirely separate video that I’m going to put up on Saturday so keep an eye out for that on the channel. Usually my thoughts and recommendations for who should buy what machine comes down to what they’re doing with their computer now that we’re 3 years into Apple silicon, if you’re on one of those last Intel Macs, it is time to upgrade.
This machine is a massive upgrade in every single Department, except for the fact. I do miss that glowing logo if you’re on an M1 Mac, either M1 M1, Pro or M1 Max, and you don’t have a very heavy GPU workload with Pro apps and you’re, using it on everyday tasks as well as light photo video, editing or music production. This might not be quite the upgrade you’re looking for yet now for the M2 users out there, you might be slightly salty, because the M2 Pro and M2 Max came out 10 months ago and honestly, that’s kind of weird to have a new chip follow up the Previous chip, in less than a year and looking at all the the tests, I did comparing M3 M2 and M1 if you’re an M2 Pro or M2 Max. This definitely probably isn’t an upgrade for you yet, especially because most people aren’t upgrading their Max yearly.
Every 2 years, every 3 years most people are going to hold on to their computer for 5 to 7 years until it’s quite necessary to upgrade or there’s a revelation in chip technology like we had from Intel to Apple silicon and this machine handled every task that I’Ve thrown at it thus far all the way from basic web browsing, note-taking, music, listening to the very heavy video photo and audio production, and this thing handles everything like a hot knife through butter, and I think this computer in particular kind of gives us a little Bit of a preview on what Apple’s plans are for the future, typically GPU horsepower isn’t the greatest on Max even going back as far as the Intel days with dedicated graphics Apple wouldn’t pick the top tier gpus, mostly to save power. Now, with apple silicon, we’re getting performance on these, that’s really high-end performance in a laptop and honestly is reminiscent of what Nvidia is doing in the RTX line of cards on the PC side, especially with having those R tracing cores. So if we get a significant bump like this year, over-year Apple’s really going to have some strong gpus under their belt, and I cannot even think about taking two M3 Maxes and combining them together to make an M3 Ultra and that thing would be a GPU monster. So that’s been my review of the 16-in M3 MacBook Pro drop a comment down below on what your favorite feature is of these new M3 Max. Thank you so much for watching and have a great night. .