Re: Mobile video editing: MAC or PC, around 3 000 - 4 000 USD to spend on hardware. Apple or not?

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@siljea9394158 wrote:

Macbook Pro 16" M1 Pro 10 CPU cores 16 GPU cores with 16" screen,  16 GB ram, 1 TB SSD

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Under your budget, with video editing as a priority, you should go straight to the M1 Max. It has double the GPU cores, double the hardware video encoders and ProRes encoder/decoders, and you get 32GB of unified memory. Unified memory means any memory not needed as RAM can be used as VRAM for the GPU. (The M1 Max also has double the memory bandwidth as the M1 Pro, but you probably won’t notice much difference with that.) With 1TB storage, it comes in at US$3499, right in the middle of your budget range.

I don’t know AMD PCs as well, but in raw performance with a powerful GPU, a good PC laptop should be competitive with or maybe superior to an M1 Max. But where you’ll probably see the difference is in how long you can do that on battery. Because of the performance-per-watt efficiency of the M1, you will probably be able to edit longer on battery on the M1. And even on wall power, the M1 should be able to maintain high performance at cooler temperatures. That should allow longer sustained top performance since there will be less heat-related throttling, and also more quietly since the lower heat means the fans can run at slower RPM.