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[–]missingusername1 1106 points1107 points  (35 children)

"basic music" what type of music are they listening to??

[–]AgentStockey 373 points374 points  (4 children)

Bad bitch music

[–]AdStill1707 100 points101 points  (0 children)

*basic bitch music

[–]YellowBreakfastM1 Air 11 points12 points  (2 children)

Bad bitch music

Sound's scary.

[–]Separate-Book302 2 points3 points  (1 child)

says the guy with the M1

[–]YellowBreakfastM1 Air 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wish I had a Garand.

[–]RustedLasagna 37 points38 points  (0 children)

record scratch “You’re listening to Alice 95.5, the hottest place for the HOTTEST pop tunes around. Up next: ‘Dance Monkey’ by Tones and I for the 69th time today!”

[–]YellowBreakfastM1 Air 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I'm super basic. Only basic videos and music for me.

None of that "fancy" stuff.

[–]tencontech 96 points97 points  (3 children)

Taylor swift

[–]user4684784124 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Bland ass music. It fits lol

[–]mlaislais 31 points32 points  (0 children)

This is the only correct answer.

[–]Trash2030s 0 points1 point  (0 children)

us Swifties need all the power we can get ...

[–]Tim_Hortons_Canada 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Camptown Races

[–]Organic-Barnacle-941 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Got a good chuckle

[–]slythespacecat 9 points10 points  (0 children)

And videos. On other note, perfect for watching the absolute BANGER of a video Italian Man Goes To Malta. That’s pretty much all I need my MacBook for anyway

[–]Important_Tip_9704 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Military grade binaural beats

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Music production

[–]KourteousKrome 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Three blind mice on recorder

[–]HokumsRazor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Chopsticks.

[–]IcyIceGuardianidk at this pont, I’ll try to get an Air 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can’t handle my fucking videogame music

[–]ikeabuns 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cbat.

[–]ElevatedTelescope 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Computationally heavy music.

Perhaps playing it till the end requires computing Pi to 10T digits, so the beginning is basic

[–]Starlight_Lucy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry guys, the M1 Pro is only capable of 64Kbp/s AAC, if you want 320 you gotta buy the M1 Ultra

[–]davevse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Miley Cyrus

[–]StagePuzzleheaded635MacBook Air :M1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a standard M1, and I can easily handle multitask audio while utilising as much as 10% utilisation, so what does simple music mean?

[–]Almonexger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Peasant mp3 codec, instead of king flac. /s

[–]its_nzrM1 MacBook Pro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Radio

[–]ismaelgo97 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doom's theme raw version

[–]Oo__II__oO 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Private Sub Music()
    Beep
End Sub

[–]wizzywizz123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No underground or indie stuff - these need a much higher single-core speed. Mainly adult contemporary and stuff jazz on the M1.

[–]Shiro-derable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think they are talking about low track number music projects ahah

[–]AR_Harlock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To listen to my heavy death master hacker tecno music you need at least 2kw power supply mate

[–]kaboooooooosh 750 points751 points  (21 children)

Can confirm, I would use at least an M3 Ultra for listening to advanced music!

[–]river-wind 86 points87 points  (5 children)

Is that in Dorian mode?? You’ll need 64GB of ram minimum.

[–]3MJB2008 2.4 GHz Unibody MacBook 27 points28 points  (4 children)

What about Lydian?

[–]OkOk-Go 19 points20 points  (3 children)

You need a Mac Studio to listen to pro level chords.

Ask Tantacrul about the MIDI chord packs.

[–]x86personMacBook Pro 7 points8 points  (1 child)

I love his series on notation software. Really insightful, and hope the Finale one is coming soon!

[–]Objective-Leek8183 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Me too!

[–]peeleee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These are some pretty niche references

[–]DontFlexNuts 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Pro music

[–]annotipoxx 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Brooo. I got an M3 Ultra with 64 GB RAM and I don’t think it’s enough to play my advanced 4k ultra HD music 😭😭

[–]rootster1 1 point2 points  (1 child)

You will need an M16 Ultra Pro+ Max+ Chip with 16TB of ram just to even think about it!

[–]Trash2030s 1 point2 points  (0 children)

and macOS 29.1!!!

[–]ElevatedTelescope -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Does the Ultra also come with 8GBs of RAM that fits 128GB of your Windows data in it?

[–]MadCornDog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This base model only supports major and minor triads.

[–]RepresentativeAsk431MacBook Pro 370 points371 points  (17 children)

😂 that’s why never listen to their employees when you buy macbook

[–]danbyer 121 points122 points  (13 children)

I remember the last time I asked an employee for help and they just read specs off the display. Never again.

[–]blackraven36 68 points69 points  (9 children)

They’re there because there’s still enough people out there that insist on having someone show them around and pretend to be an expert. BestBuy has figured out that people like that will just buy whatever sales people tell them to, so understanding the actual products isn’t a requirement. They exist to steer naive customers to more expensive products.

I avoid them like wildfire because I already know what I want and sales people are just in the way. Not true for some other customers, I guess.

[–]architectofinsanity 32 points33 points  (2 children)

Unless you need one to get something from behind or inside a locked cabinet.

I stood in the camera section waiting for someone to get someone with the keys to buy a lens for my wife’s Christmas present.

After five minutes of waiting I pulled out my phone, ordered it from B&H and confirmed it would be delivered overnight.

As I was leaving the guy I asked for help asked if I needed any help. Apparently he forgot they were looking for the keys

Nah, bruh - I got what I needed.

[–]Advanced-Breath 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Hello sir can I help u find anything what are you looking for today. A MacBook Air 16 gb and 256 gb space gray please. I should you like to look at. No that’s ok just the m2 air please I already know what I want. Are you sure you don’t want 512. Please just get me what I asked for fam lol. That’s exactly why I prefer shopping online.

[–]sharkboy1006 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Dude the two times I asked them for help. 1. Needed something behind locked cabinet. Spent a solid 15 minutes watching people tell other people to go do it before someone finally came over with the keys. 2. “Hi where is this item? shows online Not a single employee in the entire store at the time even knew they that STOCKED it. Not one. They even started saying “maybe it’s an error” before I literally found it as I walked with one of them. It was also the only one they had, so unless someone literally stocked a single one.. i don’t even know.

[–]SteakandChickenMan 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I used to work at Bestbuy. They don’t train you at all on tech specs.

[–]paradoxally 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They make minimum wage or close to that. Anyone who genuinely knows about Macs is working at better jobs.

It's like asking the dude working at McDonalds about fine dining thinking he's Gordon Ramsay.

[–]blacksoxing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's the "retail special". I once mixed paint at a retail lumber store.

....I have red/green colorblindness. Not once did it ever affect me! When folks came in they usually knew what they wanted and if they were having troubles deciding there were tools to help them visualize it their damn self. I was just there to mix paint or go "OOOOOH....GREAT CHOICE!"

[–]mifyh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Then they get promoted to geek squad if they’re even remotely tech savvy and have to deal with boomers and gen xers having no clue show a fucking tv works. 😂😭

[–]rhubarbpi197 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is so true and i used to work at bestbuy lol i never let them talk to me or i tell them i used to work there if they start tryna oversell me

[–]Tiny-Cheesecake2268 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup. I don’t remember the last time anyone at Best Buy was more helpful than annoying. They should let me order at a kiosk like McDonald’s is doing. As long as your inventory is accurate and up to date, we’re good.

[–]faaaaaaaag 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Not really sure why you’d expect anything else? It’s a low level retail job. It’s not like you’re in a family-run local computing store.

[–]kyn5600 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unless they’re apple employees, the people that know the most are geek squad that work behind the scenes, not ones you’ll get to talk to. My recommendation is just go to apple if you want to buy an apple product

[–]ArmoredHeartPower Macintosh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, idk what you expect of retail employees. Even the specs are kinda meaningless after the typical baseline, because it comes down to how well the hardware and OS work, as well as if the programs they want to use are written to work well on the machine

[–]Dick_Lazer 2 points3 points  (1 child)

It’s crazy because they actually had a pretty decent Apple section the last time I went to a Best Buy (to be fair that was probably a year or two ago).

[–]xrelaht 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They still do. It’s not an Apple thing though: the people on the floor rarely know much about any of the stuff they’re selling.

[–]ElevatedTelescope 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s why never listen to any employee when you buy anything

[–]brelincovers 156 points157 points  (10 children)

i work on a lot of music and videos. the only time i've hit a bottle neck is when i'm exporting a 2hour 4K/60 HDR video from Final Cut. it takes like an hour. (and that's really f'n fast)

[–]Grumpy_Old_Mans 29 points30 points  (0 children)

That's super fast. I remember about 8 years ago when I was doing audio engineering it would take hours and hours on either Final Cut or ProTools. I haven't messed around with anything since then and still have my MacBook mid-2013 model.

[–]squirrel8296Mac mini , MacBook Air 13 points14 points  (5 children)

It’s amazing how fast Apple silicon is. On my maxed out 2014 15” I had a 20 minute 4k video (don’t remember if it was 30/60p) and it took well over an hour to export.

[–]architectofinsanity 2 points3 points  (4 children)

And using a fraction of the power to do it.

[–]squirrel8296Mac mini , MacBook Air 6 points7 points  (3 children)

But how am I supposed to stay warm in winter now?

[–]Trash2030s 2 points3 points  (0 children)

fr, my Intel MBPs are so nice for the winter man!!😂

[–]architectofinsanity 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I keep my pc running folding@home to keep my office warm.

[–]Top_Product_2407 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ba tu esti ala de pe romania?

[–]YourMJK -3 points-2 points  (2 children)

Software HEVC encoding is pretty slow unfortunately (with x265).
And hardware encoding only supports limited parameters.

It's doing about 0.4x with 1080p and 0.1x with 4K HDR.
So a 2h movie takes over 20h to finish encoding.

My old Intel iMac does it twice as fast.
I guess the main difference is AVX and other vector instructions which it can heavily make use of and which aren't available on ARM/Apple Silicon.

[–]germane_switch 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Apple Silicon’s hardware encoding is fantastic. What parameters do you need? More compression?

[–]YourMJK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Particularly HDR parameters. I'm using these with x265 e.g.:

hdr-opt=1:repeat-headers=1:colorprim=bt2020:transfer=smpte2084:colormatrix=bt2020nc:master-display=G(8500,39850)B(6550,2300)R(35400,14600)WP(15635,16450)L(10000000,50):max-cll=0,0:crf=16:me=hex:qcomp=0.5:scenecut=40:bframes=3:min-keyint=24:keyint=240

CRF is not supported so you need to use bitrate or constant quality mode (which I haven't figured out yet).

I also understand that it's not as efficient as software encoders (like libx265), so you will have greater file sizes for the same quality.

[–]jimmyl_82104MacBook Pro 2020 M1 13" 115 points116 points  (3 children)

They have an 11th gen i3 listed as medium, and that it's "a Mid-grade processor, Great for most tasks and Multitasks well". They also have a 3 year old Ryzen 7 5700U listed as the highest performance tier, and that it's "Designed for power users, Excels at multitasking and Multimedia creation".

The problem I have with this kind of dumb misleading marketing is that non-tech people (which is most people) will believe that a $300 Windows laptop is better than an M1 Pro because "Best Buy said so" because "Best Buy knows computers". You can't really blame consumers either, because Best Buy is seen by many as a knowledgeable source.

That's like if the guy at the Subaru dealership told me (who knows nothing about cars) that this car is better than the one I intend to purchase; I would be inclined to believe them because the people at the Subaru dealership seem trustworthy

[–]andreasheri 30 points31 points  (2 children)

They list what doesn’t sell as better so they can sell it.

[–]watkykjypoes23 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Probably also what they can make more profit off of. I don’t know many details but I know Apple doesn’t budge with pricing and the profit margins aren’t great compared to other manufacturers.

[–]milehighurbanist 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I’m surprised apple let them do this honestly. They’re probs just trying to upsell you 😅

[–]Internal_Quail3960MacBook Air 58 points59 points  (3 children)

Yeah never listen to this

[–]SgtPepe 26 points27 points  (1 child)

I run long animations on After Effects, edit videos on Premier Pro, run tens of files on PS and Illustrator, often all of this at the same time.

My M1 Pro laughs at that workload.

People, if you can find an M1 Pro for a good price, get it. The newer versions are only slightly better and chances are you will not out the M1 Pro to the test.

[–]unclepaper 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I do this on a modded iMac from 2011 and an intel MacBook Air tbh. I record and mix music as well. Hackintosh can work for some. Man, there’s so many options. They’re just making 700 new computers/phones a year to keep people buying brand new electronics all the time folks. You can change the cpu and gpu, add ram and a multitude of other things pretty easily on some older Mac’s. it’s a lot of fun honestly.

[–]paranoideo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Preach to the choir.

[–]Soundiculous00 15 points16 points  (2 children)

I use the base M1 for 3D work, it’s not the best but it gets the job done without breaking a sweat most of the time. The custom silicon chips are by far apples biggest advancement to date. In my opinion even beating the iPhone in terms of jump in quality

[–]Sixstringerman 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Same thing here. Even in material view it doesn’t skip a beat. My previous quad core i7 would have the fans blasting

[–]obihz6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

...quad core?

[–]Zinrockin 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Don’t forget you can remote into a more powerful machine and still do the work from a M1 MacBook Air. So this whole thing of buying the most powerful machine is a waste of money if you already have a strong desktop.

[–]JoshyMN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i think anyone who is remoting into anything to do work will be knowledgeable enough to know this is just a marketing gimmick, I think OP is more worried about people who don't know that this laptop will do just about 99.9% of the average person's computing tasks very easily

[–]JuniorPoulet 5 points6 points  (1 child)

BestBuy is so weird for being a dedicated tech "shop". I was once waiting in line for a mobile activation and the guy ahead of me wanted their employee to compare S22U with iPhone 14PM for him. The employee opened the spec sheet and started the comparison. And it was absolutely bullshit. One of the points he made was "Samsung phone has 12gb ram, but it doesn't say iphones ram. Let me google it. Oh it has 6gb ram! So samsung is faster"

Like bro what the fucking hell? 😭😭😭

[–]unclepaper -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The Samsung needs 12gb RAM to keep up with 6 on an iPhone. Sloppy software.

[–]goldmaste78 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Compared to M3 pro chips and etc sure. But compared to all processors on the market, na

[–]LudwigBC 4 points5 points  (1 child)

You don’t need an M3 Ultra to listen to Dream Theater.

[–]IcyIceGuardianidk at this pont, I’ll try to get an Air 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True

[–]djdadi 4 points5 points  (2 children)

You missed a couple of other good ones. They have the M1 7-core (I assume in the Air?) listed as:

Apple M1 7-core

  • Entry Level
  • Budget Friendly
  • Basic gaming
  • Ideal for casual gamers

tf? gaming isn't even a great idea on higher end Macs, but not because of the horse power. And then...

8 gigabytes

  • Medium level
  • Excellent multitasking
  • Advanced photo/video editing
  • Mid-range gaming

Someone definitely wrote this to troll.

[–]Ragedpuppet707[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

They list the Nvidia RTX 3050 as “High-End”. They say you can play games at their highest settings

[–]Childhood_Naive 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lmaooo a 3050. That’s rich

[–]Oscarcharliezulu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Every model cycle the base model is only good for basic everything and yet it’s as fast or faster than the top end model from 4 years ago aimed at pro’s. I don’t think app requirements have gone up that much :)

[–]UnkeptSpoon5 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you want to listen to REAL, UNDERGROUND music (Nirvana, Deftones, The Smiths, 21 Pilots) you need a M1 Max 96gb minimum, and honestly for future-proofing, I recommend the M2 Ultra with 192gb. That's the only way to approximate the warmth of the Crosely Cruiser experience.

[–]ithinkitsahairball 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s the new Best Buy, looking for a tasty word salad for you to enjoy.

[–]sschreiber96 2 points3 points  (0 children)

don't play giant steps or your processor will burn up

[–]ChiefTestPilot87 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My 2011 MacBook Air still does that shit just fine

[–]SR71F16F35B 2 points3 points  (2 children)

lol I’m an iOS developer with an m1 air 8gb of ram can’t even complain

[–]DookieGobbler 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Tech reviewers when they review the 8gb air: "oh my god don't get the 8gb ram in 2023 it cant render 8k video and compile xcode projects and run photoshop at the same time!!!!11!!1"

[–]SR71F16F35B 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty much the vibe yeah

[–]UbiDoobyBanooby 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My basic M1 Mac mini can scrub through 4k with image stabilization with almost zero issue. The 3k$ editing PC my buddy has struggle with the same thing. “Basic video editing” F off.

[–]ArmchairNeckbeard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Even entry level CPU’s, especially Apple Silicon variants, are still faster than even the highest end CPU’s from a few years ago. It’s crazy how we look down on low end computers when we were all doing intense work on computers that were much slower in the past.

[–]Gamejang 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When the 'pro' is for 'basic'

[–]PearsAndTrees 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I remember when I got my 2021 mbp M1 Pro 10c and it was “high” 😂😂

[–]NerdToTheFuture 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love going to Best Buy, but I stopped taking their advice after they suggested I buy an Insignia (AKA Best Buy's storebrand TVs) 4K TV as an alternative to the VIZIO 4K TV that was out of stock. I walked out with a Sony Bravia 49X800E in 2017 and still have it and use it to play PS5 games.

[–]MGU--HMacBook Pro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the M1 Pro for logic pro is something I have never been able to max out where as the mac mini I upgraded from was having trouble with more than 8 tracks with heavy plug ins. actually insane how good Apple Silicon is.

[–]Zestyclose_Sale_8554 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ajr music

[–]dyingreindeer666 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The truth hurts, don’t it?

[–]FireNinja743 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, that's one way to get naive customers to buy the expensive models.

[–]Mumpy1893 1 point2 points  (0 children)

as i use my 2020 macbook air with the reg m1...

[–]Lower_Highlight_7276 2 points3 points  (2 children)

M1 Pro is a low entry level processor? 😂 dude it blows any Windows laptop even upwards of a 1000 dollars in terms of performance and battery. What are these guys smoking 🤔

[–]Techgeek_025MacBook Pro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ikr windows got killed lol

[–]Lower_Highlight_7276 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I remember jumping from an i7 Windows to MacBook Pro M1Pro and I never knew working could be so smooth. The responsiveness, the fluidity, ProMotion, worth every penny.

[–]That_one_PoleMacBook Air 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Entry? Bruh

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    [–]asboy-rMacBook Pro 13" 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Best Buy!

    [–]alwayswiddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I saw this when I was purchasing my M1 Pro refurbished.. I was like yeah okkkk

    [–]yabawkwardMacBook Pro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Not even Apple tells you this ☠️☠️☠️

    [–]MLRacer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Best Buy at least let's you get what you want.

    The last time I went to the Apple store the clerk decided I didn't know what I was talking about and kept trying to upsell me.

    [–]garrettdx88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    There isn't a single M series chip you could say this about lol

    [–]ReaperXHanzo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I guess you could maybe call it accurate, for the M series specifically

    Base is budget, Pro is low, Max is medium, Ultra is high

    [–]ZoltorGackMacBook Air 0 points1 point  (2 children)

    it's 3 generations old

    [–]DookieGobbler 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    and that doesn't always mean it is bad. The "3 generation old chip" can still blow much of the competition away. In this case, age doesn't matter much

    [–]ZoltorGackMacBook Air 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I mean if you look at the scale of M1-M3 efficiency: performance trade-off the M1 Pro is one notch above budget. it's the second lowest performing and second highest watt to instruction trade-off in terms of branding teirs for ASi chips

    [–]Head-Iron-9228 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    I mean, looking at the average consumer, that ain't wrong.

    The m1 is relatively incompatible for gaming and doesn't do regular surfing and media any better then any entry level chipset.

    There is obvious disregard for the things the M1 is ACTUALLY good at but

    Yknow. Based on an average consumer?

    [–]DookieGobbler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    It can sorta game, developers just don't optimize for macOS, even less optimize existing Mac games for Apple silicon, because despite macOS having very significant market share (about 30% in the US), a tiny fraction use it for serious gaming, so developers want to target Windows because it is already popular for gaming. More of a software than hardware issue.

    [–]xgiovio 0 points1 point  (2 children)

    I don’t see errors.

    [–]Ragedpuppet707[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    The M1 Pro is a beast wym

    [–]anh86 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    If you're asking for technical advice from Best Buy employees then let me just stop you right there.

    [–]Mattrobat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    It depends. My Best Buy has a good few people working at it that do know what they are talking about. A lot of them are working toward hardware specialist or networking certifications. I’ve been to a few in the US that have some pretty awful sales associates, but they were usually new. Any good Best Buy sales advisor is going to know a decent bit about the bigger departments.

    [–]karatekid430 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    People forget that the M series is not fast, it is just efficient. Even a hypothetical M3 Extreme made of 4x M3 Max chips just cannot compete with the likes of other things in its class in terms of performance. Even Intel had a laptop chip twice as fast as the M2 Max at the time when this was current. It used a lot of power to do so. At work I was always begging my Macbook for more performance. But clearly their idea that it can only listen to music is going too far.

    [–]PsychicNut -5 points-4 points  (1 child)

    I mean where’s the lie

    [–]IcyIceGuardianidk at this pont, I’ll try to get an Air 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    In front of you

    [–]tigerbomb88 -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

    I mean, for an Ape computer experience, the M1 is entry level. I think that’s a fair assessment

    [–]IcyIceGuardianidk at this pont, I’ll try to get an Air 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Imo an intel Mac is entry level

    [–]ChiefEli_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

    Wow this is crazy, I would objectively take an M Chip over intel all day. Then again apple has always been top tier in optimization. Wonder if Intel or AMD has a deal with Best Buy to state the M Chips are entry level🤔

    [–]Kingdog369 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I was listening to a best buy employee talk to this old lady about macs and it was making me cringe as a computer person. I'm to afraid of talking to people to actually jump into the conversation though so.

    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Music production

    [–]Idc94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I mean technically on a scale of 1-4 in the M1 line of chips it is #2!

    [–]Jdt589 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    My six year old i7 handles music great. Guess I don’t need this new m1

    [–]Electronic-Crew2115MacBook Air 2017 i7 | iMac Pro Xeon W 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    They just want to sell the new M3 Pros lmao

    [–]hw2007official 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Perhaps this is comparing it to the other M1 chips? If it is, those catagory names are extremely bad

    [–]Edmundo-Studios 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    M1 Pro is awesome and does everything I need

    [–]Jakeroid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I suppose, M3 Max is Medium level of processor? 😂

    [–]Unfair-Associate9025 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    the crazy thing is that Best Buy is struggling to survive and their only value-prop was being your big box tech expert to recommend the best products, but they can't even do that well anymore... https://secondmeasure.com/datapoints/black-friday-week-sales-2023-consumer-spending-big-box-retailers/

    [–]JSonyX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    "why is the processor important?" Well without one it wouldn't work now would it?

    [–]Nawnp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Certainly a medium processor by any reasonable measure, even by accounting for age.

    [–]potatomolehill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    No its pretty accurate. Intel will always be superior to m1. Maybe not in single threaded performance.. but still.

    [–]MC-CREC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I mean If you get the 8gb version of the m1-3 this could be accurate for some people.

    [–]CreamInternational99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    me playing fortnite in the meantime at 120fps 😍😍😍