schlotz wrote:
FYI, when I throw 30+ 50MP files at LR Denoise, the fan on the M5 Max runs full blast but kind of expected that.
Sure, but have you tried the same with an Intel laptop with an Nvidia mobile GPU? That's what you need to match the speed of the M5 Max. We have a Lenovo here with those specs we use for CAD and 3D rendering work, and when I put LR on there and do the same workload the fan basically constantly runs at a very audible level, and if I throw a pile of DeNoise at it the fans get really loud and the battery basically gets blasted unless you put it in power saving mode and then performance falls off of a cliff.
So some fan running under heavy load and a relatively quiet fan at that I can handle as I get the same performance without throttling while I still get pretty amazing battery life.
Good to hear the comp between M1 vs. M5. My target upgrade cycle when I got my M2 MBP 64GB was slated for 5-8 years (estimated). That target still seems about right, with the 50% diff after 4 years (and double RAM).
Of course, with the MBP ... I have to "repurchase" a perfectly good display, keyboard, storage, RAM, just to get the processing upgrades. Imo, that's a significant amount of wasted components, hence my target upgrade cycle is a bit stretched to help take the sting out of buying all the other components (that don't really benefit much from upgrade of the processing pipeline) twice.
