M2 Pro Mac Mini vs Mac Studio and M1 Pro 14" Macbook. Full 2023 Reviews.

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After announcement of the M2 Pro coming in the guise of the new Mac Mini, I decided it was at last time to upgrade my long-standing 2017 iMac Pro. I immediately ordered a 12 Core (8 Performance, 4 Efficiency) M2 Pro Mac Mini with the standard 19 Core GPU. That lasted 2 Days!

Read on!

Computer Stuff:
SSD Samsung T7 SSD https://geni.us/SamT7-SSD
SSD Samsung T7 Touch SSD https://geni.us/SamT7Touch-SSD
My 14” Macbook M1 Pro (10Core) https://geni.us/MacBookM1Pro-MarksSpec
My MacStudio https://geni.us/MacStudio-MarkSpec

My camera and Super Wide Lens Setup:
Sony A7C EU Spec https://geni.us/SonyA7C-EU-Spec
Sony A7C US Spec https://geni.us/SonyA7C-US-Spec
Tamron Wide Lens https://geni.us/Tamron17-28Lens

Video Links

The original M1 MacBook Review: https://youtu.be/Iy2Olv1clEE
Logic Pro CPU Optimization: https://youtu.be/W3zabsRfT8c

Intro

After announcement of the M2 Pro coming in the guise of the new Mac Mini, I decided it was at last time to upgrade my long-standing 2017 iMac Pro. I immediately ordered a 12 Core (8 Performance, 4 Efficiency) M2 Pro Mac Mini with the standard 19 Core GPU. This was packaged with 32GB of main memory and a 512GB SSD.

It came with Ventura installed and I fought it for two days trying to get reliable glitch free audio from my legacy Digigrid IOS sound interface hardware. I had problems with the audio interface UI and when I did get things working, I could hear dropouts on simple playback.

I concluded that my issues were maybe two-fold. Ventura and Waves Soundgrid Studio were not getting on and secondly, maybe I should have opted for the 10Gbit network interface (option on the M2 Pro Mac Mini) which would have maybe addressed the audio network glitching in Soundgrid.

I will never know… after two days I took the M2 Pro Mac Mini back to the Apple store in Reading and exchanged it for an M1 Max Mac Studio running on Monterey. The Mac Studio has been a much better experience and I will keep it.

What are the performance differences between the M2 Pro and M1 Max Mac Studio and why am I much happier with this solution? How do the latest Apple Silicone systems stack up against the older Intel 10 Core Xeon system with top end Vega 64 GPU found in the iMac Pro?

Sections

00:00 - Intro
02:39 – 1. M1 Apple Silicone: A hard act to follow.
05:35 – 2. M1 Pro, defining what is possible in a portable Macbook.
08:44 – 3. M1 M2 Pro Apple Silicone in Mac Desktops
14:55 – 4. M1 Pro/Max vs M2 Pro Benchmarks
19:37 – 5. Real life Final Cut Video performance M1 Pro/Max vs M2 pro
34:23 – 6. Real life Logic Audio Performance
42:42 – Conclusions: M1 Max Mac Studio, the winner
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iMac
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