Andrew Manganelli

I mentioned in the setup video of my desk that I would be getting rid of the Mac Pro soon.

Apple literally discontinued the Mac Pro slightly after that video.

Officially.

Yeah, so they gave up on the Mac Pro, so so did I. Nice.

Now, my question is, do I want to become the laptop person

or still have a separate distinct desktop and laptop, which kind of feels to me like, do I want to have my phone for every photo or do I want to carry a separate camera?

Obviously the separate camera is going to be better, but it would be convenient if I could take everything on my phone.

This is the laptop dilemma.

I think that a 16 inch M5 Max MacBook Pro is powerful enough to do everything that I want out of a computer, including editing, including all the plugins, including everything that we do that takes a lot of render.

but it's a 16 inch MacBook Pro.

It's a big, it's heavier.

Big boy.

Yeah, but the 14 inch is clearly superior.

I love the form factor.

I would much rather carry the 14.

And I know this because I've gone from a 16 to a 14 and I try to go back and back and forth.

And I just, I'm- But do you ever edit on just the 14 without plugging into a display?

I think I've done it like three, only once with a main video and like three or four times with vertical video shorts.

Yeah, it's annoying, right?

it's slightly annoying but it's not deal-breaking annoying what turned out to be more interesting is there's like a 15 to 20 difference in long-term thermal performance with the bigger chassis of the 16 you're actually getting like the max that the chip has to offer yeah true the m5 max and a 14 inch chassis is throttling a little earlier isn't giving me quite the same performance is it that big of a deal probably not but i