brian43053 Loc: Buffalo, NY

Thank you for your input. Think I’ll pull the trigger after the holidays

Cdouthitt Loc: Traverse City, MI

I have a 14” M1 max with 64 gb ram and 2tb drive on order right now. I’ll let you know when it comes in how awesome it is :-)

I’m currently using a 2018 mbp with 32gb ram and 500 gb drive.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Hey, Clint, It's probably more power than you need. Enjoy it! I have a 16GB/1TB MacBook Air and find it all I need for now.

moonhawk Loc: Land of Enchantment

How did you get 32 gb ram in a 2018 mbp? I thought they maxed out at 16?

Cdouthitt Loc: Traverse City, MI

It’s also my work machine too, so I’ll occasionally push it to the limit when opening up/working with large building footprints from CAD/Revit/Revitzo or when doing 3d renderings. Also, since our design office doesn’t upgrade every year, it’s important that it has more processing power now, so in 4 years it’s still working efficiently for us.

Cdouthitt Loc: Traverse City, MI

It was the first year for that.

moonhawk Loc: Land of Enchantment

OK, thanks.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Let us know what you think!

Cdouthitt Loc: Traverse City, MI

Things are a bit backed up order wise, it’s sounding like we won’t get our new machines until the first week in January.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

It's probably sitting in a container somewhere off the CA coast...

Cdouthitt Loc: Traverse City, MI

Probably, but our office also wasn’t quick to order them (dozen of them). They just needed them to be paid for this year and weren’t too concerned about when they would arrive.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Finally got some time to run a benchmark.

I took a program that I developed last year on the PC and ran it on the MacBook M1 chip. The program takes a set of jpgs derived from a tif and compares them to the original file. The image is 3350 x 2550 or 8.5 Megapixels so it has to do the comparison 8.5 million times. It finds the difference between the pixels and finds the average difference and standard deviation, so there's a lot of computation going on. The program was run 32 times and the time it took was recorded.

PC from about 2015: 2479 seconds, 77.47 seconds/pass
MacBook M1: 793 seconds, 24.78 seconds/pass

MacBook/PC speed: 3.12

Note that this is for a specific program so there could be differences between this program and others. I used the same data so that shouldn't affect the results. One difference could be the number of background processes running in the two machines. The PC has been around for a while and has collected a large number of background tasks that could increase the time needed for the program to run. The MacBook started up just after Christmas 2021.