By akademiotoelektronik, 17/06/2022

Why is it complicated to choose your MacBook Pro today?

Apple presented two new MacBook Pro at its last conference.But behind this apparent simplicity of choice hides an ocean of possibilities.

The new MacBook Pro are official.They change the design and the characteristics of the range, with in particular the integration of all new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips.But behind the apparent simplicity of the range, there is a plethora of possible configurations for each of the computers.

The processors presented by Apple are actually available in several different models, with more or less power on the processor part or on the graphic part.In addition to choosing your computer size, you will also have to know which of the two processors you want to adopt and in which configuration.Suffice to say that a neophyte will find it difficult to navigate.

Apple Silicon M1 Pro?M1 Max?

The 14 -inch MacBook Pro (512 GB) is for example sold in 5 different processor configurations.One has 8 hearts on his CPU, the other 10 hearts.Then, you have to make a choice between 14 or 16 cores on the graphic part.And that is without counting on the variations with the M1 Max chip, which offers 24 or 32 graphic cores.The 16 inch model is available with a M1 Pro chip with 16 graphic cores, or a M1 max chip with 24 or 32 graphic cores.

Some of the configurations of the 16 -inch MacBook

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If you are a little lost on reading all of this, this is normal.Apple offers a lot of choice in the configuration of its machine (we have not even mentioned the different storage or RAM) capacities), until you make the choice sometimes complicated to make.Knowing if you need 8 or 10 CPU cores, 14, 16, 24 or 32 graphic cores, notes for the moment of the clairvoyance.

8 or 10 CPU cores?24 or 32 GPU cores?

This wide range of choices is far from being a bad thing, especially for Apple which does not always offer as many personalization possibilities.But it makes the purchase of a MacBook Pro complicated at the moment.Even for professionals, knowing which configuration to choose is difficult.And this for the simple reason that we do not yet know the performance of the new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips.

Apple's new MacBook Pro

Source: screenshot Numerama

Apple has given orders of magnitude to explain that the chips were 70 % faster than the M1 there or 4x more powerful here, but this is still a little vague.To find out if a video professional needs 24 or 32 graphic cores on the new M1 Max chip, we will have to wait for the first test results.This will allow you to have firm comparison points compared to the previous generations of MacBook, or even to the remains of market PCs.

Currently, there are a lot of strangers regarding the performance of these new chips.Knowing what processor configuration you have to take, without knowing exactly what the processor is worth in its basic version is to make an equation with an equation with an extra unknown.The performance of the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips are undoubtedly impeccable in all cases, but it is a bit early to know exactly which configurations is the most suitable for your needs.

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