Marco Zavagno Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Hi all. I am currently using a MacBook Pro 16" with M1 Max - 64GB ram. I am thinking of upgrading to a Mac Studio but I want to wait for the M4 to be installed on them. Would you recommend to choose the Ultra? or would the M4 Max be enough for working on our beloved VWx? I use it also for Twinmotion but it is not the main source field for my works. Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated 🙂 thanks and Happy 20245 to all! 🙂 Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 I think you need to ask this question after the M4 Studio is released so we can actually understand the differences. It will also depend on your workflow. If you are primarily modeling with some mid to high quality rendering, then the Max with sufficient RAM should be fine. If you do high end photorealistic rendering, then you might want to consider the Ultra. Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 19 minutes ago, Marco Zavagno said: or would the M4 Max be enough for working on our beloved VWx? I think yes. I don't think you would notice much difference to Ultra in VW. But if you measure expected Twinmotion experience in top of the line Nvidia GPU performances, you want to go with the Ultra. Or if you do RW CPU Rendering, double the core counts of the Ultra should scale nearly linear and be double as fast. Same for GPU cores and Redshift Rendering. This is valid for a speculated M4 Ultra in the way we had with M1 and M2. But we don't know. Maybe it will be again 2 Max glued together, maybe it will be a new design and not double performance. But no one can know if an Ultra or even Extreme version will ever come or not and if, how long we have to wait for it. I don't expect a Studio Max release before WWDC in June (Although the M4 Max is out some months and a Max Studio could have been released with Macbook Pros already if Apple would have been willing to), an Ultra may even take some more time. On the other side, with M4 generation Apple is pricing exactly linear with performance. Means memory, SSD, GPU or CPU count doubled means double price. And where not feasible, like for the binned versions, Apple artificially limits memory options so that these bargain models aren't applicable for most of us demanding users. (Basically you will get the desktop cases and ports for free, just displays and keyboards cost a little extra, but the price is just for performance of SoC, Memory and storage only) Therefore configuration depends only on your demands and needs, currently and for the whole expected life cycle. 45 minutes ago, Marco Zavagno said: I am currently using a MacBook Pro 16" with M1 Max - 64GB ram. I think with this configuration and mainly VW, you are not in a hurry, can observe what happens or Apple will release in the near future. And just wait until you really run into hardware limitations with your projects, to make an upgrade decision. Quote Link to comment
Ryan Russell Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 One thing I can sound off on, is make sure that you get the adequate amount of storage space, I presently work on an Apple M1 Max w/ 32GB unified ram, and only 500Mb on the solid state storage. And I am constantly offloading files, its truly painful. Quote Link to comment
Marco Zavagno Posted January 6 Author Share Posted January 6 Hi All! thanks so much for your help! This makes me think that the M4 Max would be enough for me as I will never work hard on the rendering. At least, that is not my goal. I will rather pimp up the ram and the storage. @Ryan: I have the same problem and I'm on a 1TB storage!!! It's like it eats GB like crazy! the more you give the more it eats! It's crazy! At this point I'd really go for a macBook M4 max. it will be anyway before than my M1 and will serve me well anyway. Thanks to all of you! I might come back bothering you again cause I know me: always indecisive before a big spend! Ciao! Quote Link to comment
EAlexander Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 1 hour ago, Ryan Russell said: One thing I can sound off on, is make sure that you get the adequate amount of storage space, I presently work on an Apple M1 Max w/ 32GB unified ram, and only 500Mb on the solid state storage. And I am constantly offloading files, its truly painful. Ryan, I have one of these (on my PC) and the read/write time works fast enough to use it like a hard drive. It's tiny and quiet. https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/portable-solid-state-drives/portable-ssd-t7-shield-usb-3-2-4tb-black-mu-pe4t0s-am/?gQT=2 2 Quote Link to comment
E|FA Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 (edited) I use a similar Samsung SSD for my VW autosaves and miscellaneous files. There's a fair amount of read/write and it's fast enough for my use. If you're on a Mac, you can also move your Photos library to the external drive. Make sure you're backing up properly, especially if you have your personal photos on the same Mac/account. Edited January 7 by E|FA Quote Link to comment
Marco Zavagno Posted January 7 Author Share Posted January 7 yes I am actually moving the photos! far too many but also far too "hungry" of HD space! I think the easy click on phones is becoming an issue for those like me who do not really bother to put their pictures in order... I'm a disgrace! Quote Link to comment
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