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At my previous employer, we were required to use Apple laptops for our production workflow as a condition of the show being distributed on Apple TV. It's the o
by gamblor956 4y ago
At my previous employer, we were required to use Apple laptops for our production workflow as a condition of the show being distributed on Apple TV.
It's the only reason we overpaid for Apple computers when we could have had superior, cheaper alternatives for a quarter of the price.
- bradknowles 4y agoMaybe for Intel-based Macs. With Apple Silicon Macs, I don't think that's true anymore. You can get cheaper computers, sure. And maybe you can get better ones. P But not ones that are both better and cheaper. The M1 and M2 chips turned that market on its head.
- gamblor956 4y agoOnly Mac stans think that M1 or M2 computers are better than the competition. They're the best at a specific benchmark (single core power consumption) that isn't relevant to how they're intended to be used, and which frequently ends up with M-based laptops being paper by their Windows competition at most tasks.
- throwaway290 4y agoSource? Looking at this real-life test, an M1 Pro laptop exports and manipulates video faster than a beefy RTX 3080 laptop: https://ymcinema.com/2021/11/02/whatre-the-ideal-laptops-for-video-editors-rtx-studios-or-apple-m1-max/ https://ymcinema.com/2021/11/02/whatre-the-ideal-laptops-for.... This is the first comparison of apple silicon to PC that I saw when checking your claim From what I heard all the time, new Apple hardware is on par for multimedia work now. The only thing you don't get is gaming compatibility/performance, so if you reuse your hardware for that then yeah.