My £5,198 MacBook Pro Setup — Was It a Mistake?
Do I regret buying Apple’s biggest laptop?
I avoided calling this a ‘long-term review of the 16-inch MacBook Pro’ because it isn’t. Five months isn’t long enough to deliver a full, unfiltered verdict on a tool like this.
But the M1 Max-powered 16-inch MacBook Pro has been sitting at the heart of my production process for nearly half a year now, and I have many thoughts.
This wasn’t a cheap computer; it set my business back £3,699. It therefore had one task: deliver, big time, when it comes to video editing performance, and the potential to be a super long-termer.
This is what I’ve discovered.
Using the 16-inch MacBook Pro for video editing
My 16-inch MacBook Pro spends most of its time in Final Cut Pro. There’s occasionally some light audio work undertaken in Logic Pro when producing the Eight or Sixteen podcast and mic audio for my YouTube videos, but that’s it.
