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  • What speed to expect from M4 Ultra in the 2025 Mac Studio & Mac Pro

    surgefiltersurgefilter
    I’ve been most interested in real world usage when upgrading from a maxxed out MacPro 5,1 with the 12-core 3.46Ghz Xeon upgrade, NVMe Open Core Boot Drive and 80Gb RAM… with real world work in Premiere and After Effects. Working with Perplexity AI…

    (what I really want from an article like this):

    Based on the available data and performance trends, here’s a projected analysis:

    Projected Performance Comparison
    Mac Studio M4 Max vs Mac Mini M4 Pro

    • Adobe Premiere Pro (1-hour ProRes 1080p export):
    • Mac Mini M4 Pro: 18 minutes 12 seconds
    • Projected Mac Studio M4 Max: ~9 minutes 30 seconds (estimated based on M4 Max performance gains)

    After Effects Complex Project Rendering
    • Mac Mini M4 Pro: 11 minutes 12 seconds
    • Projected Mac Studio M4 Max: ~5 minutes 45 seconds

    Performance Gains Over 2010 Mac Pro 5,1
    3.46Ghz upgrade 12-core CPU Performance

    • The M4 Max would likely deliver:
    • 15-20x faster single-core performance
    • 8-10x faster multi-core performance in CPU-intensive tasks
    • Significantly lower power consumption (60W vs 550W+)

    Video Processing
    • ProRes encoding:
    • Mac Pro 5,1: ~90 minutes for 1-hour timeline
    • Mac Studio M4 Max: ~9 minutes (projected)
    • Real-time effects processing would be approximately 12-15x faster

    Efficiency Improvements

    Memory Management
    • Despite the Mac Pro 5,1’s 80GB RAM, the M4 Max’s 128GB unified memory provides:
    • 273GB/s memory bandwidth
    • Significantly faster memory access
    • Better resource allocation between CPU and GPU tasks

    Storage Performance

    • NVMe storage in M4 Max delivers:
    • Read speeds up to 7,400MB/s
    • Write speeds up to 6,800MB/s
    • Compared to SATA SSDs in the Mac Pro 5,1 (max 600MB/s)

    The projected Mac Studio M4 Max would represent a generational leap over both the Mac Mini M4 Pro and the 2010 Mac Pro 5,1, particularly in professional video workflows and complex After Effects compositions.

     The unified memory architecture and modern media engines would provide substantially better performance in modern creative applications.

    williamlondonSugarCatPaulWalsh

  • Apple's future iPhone Flip - all the rumors about a possible foldable iPhone

    surgefiltersurgefilter
    Looks like sharp edges on the hinge’s back edges to potentially snip the skin on people’s hands as it opens. 

     Hopefully, if the real thing ever happens, that’ll not be the case in the wild.
    williamlondon

  • Former Apple hardware engineer joins Rivian

    surgefiltersurgefilter
    Rivian have a great product, put on the map by Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman’s 3rd (now Electric) Motorbike odyssey in “THE LONG WAY UP” documentary series on Apple TV. 

    Rivian gave their production team the TWO EV Prototype 4x4s to travel in as assist vehicles. They travelled up the whole of South America in them.
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  • Future MacBook Pro could split at the hinge and be truly modular

    surgefiltersurgefilter
    LOL. Apple Laptops of old used to do this FOR FREE. Cost a fortune to replace back then.

    What goes around comes around it seems.
    williamlondon

  • Hands on with Apple's new black and silver Magic Keyboard, Trackpad, and Mouse

    surgefiltersurgefilter
    Nope.

    PC White on Black is poor choice for aesthetics over function imho.

    Nothing beats the contrast of Black text on white / light background. Basic design ethos.
    williamlondon