M1 Max MacBook Pro Vs MONSTER PC — it's not even close! (CultCast #517!)
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🗓️ 5 November 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
This week: just how well does a M1 Max MacBook Pro perform against a MONSTER PC build with top-tier components? These results might blow your mind lol.
Plus: we got new details on the upcoming iMac “Pro”, and we wrap up with our favorite shows and movies in an all-new Under Review!
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- The high-end iMac Pro is expected to return next year with Apple’s newest M1 Pro and M1 Max chipsets. One tipster also claims the powerful all-in-one will feature a 27-inch mini-LED display — and possibly even Face ID.
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MacBook Pro M1 Max vs Windows Desktop (RTX3090, Ryzen9 5950x) M1Max Outperforms more expensive PC!
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| 0:00.0 | I don't have to be in that, that clunky world. There's a clunkiness to it. |
| 0:05.2 | I had everything set up on, on windows. I had my whole life on that machine, you know, my, |
| 0:10.9 | my illustrations, my writing, my banking, you know, it's like being stuck in a bad relationship. |
| 0:17.0 | It works on some level and so, you know, you don't want to make that jump and take the effort to do it. |
| 0:22.7 | But then what you do it, you realize you should have done it a long time ago. |
| 0:30.9 | Hello and welcome to Whole Gas V Best 30 plus Minute Health Conversation. |
| 0:35.3 | You can hear all week long. I'm your host, everyone on our live stream today. |
| 0:39.8 | He discovered one of the best hidden features about the new MacBook Pros. |
| 0:43.2 | The minute you call to Mac writers you're typing to slow, you can quickly unplug that Mac safe |
| 0:47.6 | and with that 140 watts just right in the neck, oh, saps them right back, keeps them well motivated. |
| 0:54.3 | And he's thinking, man, together of Ultimaq, Lewis Walsh is here. |
| 0:58.9 | I, I disavow. I disavow. |
| 1:01.7 | Now, Lewis wrote this intro for you. |
| 1:03.6 | Look, Leander, are you ready? Because I didn't have one prepared. Here we go. |
| 1:08.0 | He doesn't have all the hardware creation talents like Steve Jobs, but he is just as big of an asshole. |
| 1:16.0 | He's the kind of got to back. |
| 1:17.8 | Leander Canyon's here. |
| 1:19.8 | Lewis wrote that one. |
| 1:22.8 | Lewis came up with that on the fly as we were preparing for the show because you said you were |
| 1:27.6 | joining and I was like, oh, I didn't think that LK was going to be here. |
| 1:30.4 | And so I don't have an intro for him. He's like, I got one. |
| 1:33.2 | And it just flowed out. So naturally, he didn't even have to think about it. |
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