Apple has announced new M1 based MacBook Pro in 14″ and 16″ with the new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips.
And the rumors were right there is a damn divot for the camera just like the iPhone and iPad.
These are much more pro machines, with a much more pro price. And you had better pay for as much as you can as you will not be upgrading anything after you purchase the machine.
For $1999.00 you get an 14″ with 512 SSD 8 Core CPU, 14 Core CPU and 16GB of memory. It is an additional $400 to move to 32 GB of Memory, and $200 to move to a 10 core CPU, 14 core GPU, or $300 for 10 core cpu, 16 core gpU, $500 to movew to the mac with 10 core CPU and 24 core GPU, or $700 for Max with 10 Core CPU and 32 Core GPU.
Or for $2499 you get the 10 Core CPU, 16 Core GPU and 1 TB SSD with 16 GB of memory, which makes a $200 upgrade to M1 Mac with 24 core GPY or $400 for the Max 32 Core GPU, with the same $400 to go to 32 Gigs gigs of memory.
The 16″ starts at $2499 with 10 core CPU, 16 Core GPU, 16GB of memory and 512 ssd, then $2699 for the Same with 1TB hard drive or $3499 with MAX 10 Core CPU and 32 Core GPU with 32 GB memory and 1 TB SSD, this top model can hace 64 GB of memory for $400 additional, and SSD’s are $400 for 2tb, $1000 for 4tB and an eye watering $22000 for 8TB. So for a top of the line with 2TB SSD and 64 GB of RAM you are talking $4299.00.
Damn I would love to play with one of these and see how well this thing edits, it sounds like the first pro machine that could really handle some high end editing, graphics and color correct. And it gives me hope for the non-portable high end machines.
I do this means when the M2 Pro and Max chips come out, hopefully they will include a 128 RAM version, and have at least 64 cores for video, but maybe even 128. Sure it will be a 10,000 machine at least, but with that and probably 4 cores for ProRES Playback we are talking some serious editing machines!