With this speed increase, users can now play back, edit and grade 4K projects faster and work on 8K projects using an Apple M1 notebook. I’m surprised someone hasn’t yet compared it to a supercomputer and declared that Apple’s chips aren’t that good after all.Blackmagic’s updated DaVinci Resolve 17.3 adds support for a completely new processing engine that increases the speed of Resolve to 3x faster on Apple Mac models with the M1 chip. Remember that there are still, and will always be, people who hate the fact that Apple is successful, and feel that they have to do something to knock it down. Also some want to show that Apple’s product isn’t as good as many people think (and actually is), so they do something outlandish to prove otherwise. We know that’s not true, but it’s fun to think.

They compared it to those workstations for the same reason they did it with the original M1 Macbook Pro and Mac Mini, because why not? Unfortunately, Apple coming out with its own chips seems to have had some people think that Apple is stating that these chips are more powerful than anything else, no matter what.

I've yet to find anyone who's not been impressed with the power and longevity of the 'lowly' fanless M1 MacBook Air. I think this new pair of MacBook Pros will fare extremely well and impress their owners in the same way that the first generation M1 MacBook Air and M1 MacBook Pro have done. Oh well, Apple's new MacBook Pro's will have to prove themselves in the real world in the hands of people who are trying to get real work done where and when they need to, in the shortest amount of time, and without having to be frequently tethered to the power mains.

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