Such underrated video, love the genuine and personal vibe you have doing this comparison. Refreshing compared to all other KZfaqrs out there - Keep it up Tim, this was awesome!

Your visual comparison is more accessible to me than a text comparison. I now have a real sense of the performance boost offered by the M2 machine.

Thank you for taking the time to do this. The best performance test I've seen. Actually something relevant!

Absolutely brilliant video. As a developer, I thought that the i9 could last me for 5-10 years, but I immediately noticed that it wasn't very snappy compared to a moderate PC laptop running Windows/Linux. It overheats and slows down if I don't turn on the AC. I connect two 4K monitors every day, so I appreciate that you compared the monitor setup speed. I also love how you showed Windows emulation performance and Xcode/JS compile times. I'm curious about Docker performance, but I assume it's probably improved with the M2 as well. Brilliant. I hope your channel grows in views/subs. There aren't many developer-centric videos for bleeding-edge MacBooks.

Great comparison! I've used i9 intel for my main laptop and I just booked m2 max 16inch. Your video made me not to regret my decision Thank you :)

I must say a perfect comparison video. Good job mate! this helped a lot.

quick, no bs, no wasting time, showed real world differences. I love this man already, u got a new subscriber

I had an i9, worst buy ever, now got a M1 Max… fantastic. M1 can deliver 9 hours real world use, i9 can eat its battery in 2 hrs

Excellent tests. Just what I was looking for. Thanks

Thanks for taking the time to make this comparison. I left the video but came back to give it a thumbs up. Lol

Thank You. 1st Trial. Was pretty easy to follow through!

Oh, hi Tim! I didn't know you had another channel besides Pure Glide, and just randomly ran upon this today when researching an upgrade for my work Macbook. Good comparison!

Best video comparison and exactly everything I’ve experienced with the i9. Looks like I’m going to picking up the M2 max sooner than I anticipated.

Excellent video, thanks. This is so much more useful than just numbers on a chart for me. I have the 2019 MBP and am trying to decide whether to upgrade now, or put up with waiting 20 minutes to compile my app until the M3 MBP inevitably comes out. It looks like a huge jump!

That blew up my mind man! It was helpful 🙌🏽

Thanks a lot, was thinking about an upgrade and this video made me confident about my decision, thanks a lot!

Great comparison, thank you.

thanks so much for the video. I decided to get my m2max after watching your comparison. thanks.

Great video! Especially the VM compare!

For the laptop getting warm in the bag: Apparently when it goes into standby while it's still powered, it thinks it can do stuff like updates after falling asleep - because the "am I plugged in" circuit doesn't update with the lid closed. So unplug first, sleep second - that should help to avoid that effect. Windows laptops have a similar issue. I have the same two laptops and my experience is almost identical. The M2 is a beast! I still use the i9 for stuff like YT watching or web browsing. For anything that needs real power, I'm so happy with the M2 that doesn't even turn on the fans a lot of the time, when the i9 would already be afraid overheating and start throttling the CPU.

My 2019 16" MBP is running very high CPU and watching your video has me convinced I need to just upgrade. Amazing.

Thank you for this comparison, its precise and a good buying review.

Good Test! Thank you!

Good comparison, thanks! :)

Fantastic real life test. I am also using 2019 mac and would like to switch. I always wanted to see a test for Windows tools. It would be interestin to check how Power BI is doing on new mac, since I normally develop data solutions. Maybe idea for future videos. What do you recommend? 32 or maybe 64 gb for windows? Thnx

I had the i9 machine. I couldn’t believe how slow it was - and that was before Apple silicon. It was supposed to be a flagship machine and it was painfully slow, hot and loud. The fans would spin up just booting the machine. I upgraded to the M1 Pro 16 inch and it was amazingly fast. Best laptop I have ever had.

I'm glad the slow external display activation wasn't just me 😂. The heat generated by watching a KZfaq video with the 16" i9 on my lap is unbearable. My M2 should be arriving this week, and you've raised my confidence I made the right decision. Also hoping the WiFi is more stable on the M's - wondering if you've noticed a difference.

Thanks for the share

great test skipping the rubbish ! i love your pure glide channel, nice to see your second one about tech

External display test was very helpful. Wonder if you can run off the power delivery on the lg display whilst maxing out cores?

What is the battery time and efficiency compared to an unplugged xps 15 is it a major reduction in terms of power,batterry and performance? Also how different when running windows on mac? Thanks

Thanks for the unique and practical review. My company gave me a 14" m2 max recently - it's a beast! I have a 2019 16" i9 personally. I think it's time for an upgrade. The improved display handling should allow me to decommission my iMac and simply run everything off the m2 with an external display. BTW I'm curious about your RAM and SSD configuration. There's some bandwidth variation depending on what you have.

Hey, I´m in the market for a Macbook and in my budget i could either go full out on the M2 Air or the MBP you tested. The air would be the base 13" (which is a bit small) and its bottlenecked by the 8gb ram and im not sure for which one to go, as the i9 seems like a more "pro" and quirky laptop (touchbar aso). What would you recommend?

Nice video comparison. But does it also takes into account other HW, for example hard drive? Additionally would be nice to see comparison of such tasks as "npm" together with "time" util to understand why it is so slower.

ok, something is definitely wrong here. I have the i9 Macbook Pro 2019 (32GB/2TB) and I've tested it just with this video (pressing the buttons simultaneously). I have many apps on my machine, so it may affect the result, and it's still on Catalina. Nonetheless, here are my observations: shutdown is like 2-3 seconds faster than on your i9. Startup until the login screen is significantly faster (even faster than on M2!), but after entering passcode it really slows down, so in summary my i9 boots not much sooner than yours. Photoshop and Illustrator loading is almost the same, maybe a little bit faster than your i9 (after first launch/closing they begin to load noticeably faster). Connecting to external 4k display and 'clamp shell mode' is much faster, without any strange flickering (almost just like on m2). And wake from sleep is instant! (checked it many times) I'm not sure why your i9 is different, probably because of newer versions of MacOS - I suppose Apple did nothing to optimise them for Intel. If so, that's sad, because Adobe already forces Catalina users to update the OS :(

Would LOVE to see this same performance review with your 2019 intel Macbook Pro vs Macbook Pro M3 Pro when you can!

I can’t be sure if the 2019 model is slow, because intel or macOS version. I mean, the newer macOS versions have introduced new things that make a little bit slow than previous versions. In other hand, I had intel MacBooks it was very often to heard the fans on high rpm. Always warm or even I remember when I had to restart to workaround with some background apps that uses high percentages of processor. All of theses issues happened me on MacBook Air 2015, MacBook Pro 13 2015 and especially on MacBook Pro 13 2020. Now, I have a MacBook 14 m1 pro and I’m still facing temperatures issues, sometimes, it gets warm and for some reason the fans keeps 2000 rpm. It is quiet but why doesn’t try to cool more often.

And it's all in a camper van haha sweet. Thank you! Very clear.

Very interesting! Oh wait it's my video haha

I absolutely should not have watched this. I’m running pretty close to the same Intel MacBook (i9 with 32GB mem and 2TB SSD). I guess I knew it was increasingly slow and clunky (partly reflecting increased resource demands from apps and OS). But, you nailed it. The differences are far more dramatic than you we’ve come to expect based on 3 years and a couple of generations. It’s still challenge to consider the costs involved and I suspect the re-sell on my 2019 will also be impacted the improvements in the M1 and M2 machines. Since transitioning from Windows to MacOS a little over ten years ago, I’ve generally waited 4 years or more to upgrade but the performance differences were never this dramatic.

Jesus! It’s amazing just how much snappier things are. My windows gaming machine just ate its 2nd NVMe drive and it’s nearly impossible to get a working windows USB without a windows machine. I literally had to run windows in a VM on my 2017 i5 MacBook w/ 8GB OF RAM to make one… After that debacle and realizing I haven’t really been gaming so much, I decided to test drive the 2017 as a daily driver. I want to be sure I can live solely with macOS before I spend real money. Thanks for video. It’s nice to get an idea of what the day to day performance difference would be like.

Good video

Hey. I'm a student with the i9 Mac, and was wondering whether to get the 16 inch M2 Pro? Only want the MBP for the Pro motion display.

I have a iMac 27inch 5k which I use only for PS and LR and have been thinking of chopping it in for the pro m2 or now the m3 pro as the iMac is to bulky and cannot travel obviously. What the feed back on this please as I have found your illustrations of the apple products the best so far and easy to understand📸👍🍺🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

I love my i9 MacBook Pro and sincerely looks much faster than yours, it’s incredibile compared to other Intel version but the m2 max is another planet

Hey, I just got an m2 max macbook pro and it has a yellowish screen like yours on this video! Even with true tone OFF, it shows still yellowish like yours compared to i9 macbook pro. It's really frushtinating. Do you think it's normal? Even in photoshop, lightroom... the whites are yellow. I can clearly see that your m2 max has the same issue as well! i9 looks more natural and better in color accuracy. Please kindly let me know if there is a fix for it. Appreciate already! :)

I'm using MacBook Pro 2019(Intel i9 2.3GHz, Radeon 5500M(8GB), 32GB of memory) and considering buying a MacBook Pro M2 Max, so this video is so helpful for me. It's really fantastic for the speed to connect the External 5K Display. (Because I'm using three external displays almost every moment.) I'll buy a MacBook Pro M2 Max next week. Thanks for your video comparing it.

My i9 maxed out mbp boots up in a split second. It's still pristine and thinner and notchless beautiful beast. I'll wait for the M6 thanks. 😅

Do you think buying the M2 is a good idea if I need a laptop. I have the same laptop specs as the i9 in the video. Please make more videos on comparisons

Oh lord. Now I'm a believer

Hey that Windows software you're running "SeeYou", is it an x86 application running on the Arm version of Windows or did you have to get the Arm version of that windows software?

at 6:01, I'd have given real money if you just slipped in "and don't call me Shirley". LOL

...real world - THX !!

M2 is off the charts Bro. Up there. By the way, I think I hadn't seen Parallels in action😊

This is the type of video I've been looking for for so long, Thank you you've just earned a subscriber. And Apple another $2000...bloody hell man 😂

HOLY HELL! The M2 Max is SUPERB!

I want to ask how M1/2 works with Docker? I have i9 and building C++ project in Docker takes too long (more than 10 times slower than my Linux laptop on i7).

What is the name of the program you use to open windows program on macbook?

Makes me want to upgrade, but makes me feel even worse about thinking I should have spec’d out my 15” under the expectation it would last 7-8 years. It did, for what is worth, feel like an upgrade from my base 13” pro. I’ve edited 4K multi cam sequences on it, but you need to proxy everything appropriately and get used to using a global fx mute or at least remove color grading for it to be doable. I might have to try my workflow on someone’s m2 to see if it’s worth it after my 3k laptop is now 700$ and falling.

Currently have an i7 MacBook Pro laptop and amazed at how much faster Apple silicon is

is there that much difference between the m2 max and m1 max ? and how does the m1 max compare to the 2019 i9 MPB ?

holly molly omg just like comparing night and day i own an intel i9MBP 2019 (my first ever) i was happy with it , and i've been closing my eyes on some stuff heat and fan noise , but seeing the M2 pro performance OMG i think i'm going to sell it to get at least an M1 pro, because dude really it's incomparable especially productivity-wise

Great video but i feel like it’s a pretty unfair test with the machines running on battery. Puts the i9 at a disadvantage since all intel laptops drop performance dramatically when on battery. Do you have a video with both machines on power?

This is a great video on the difference between Intel’s processor design vs Apple’s.

That issue with the Intel MacBook getting hot and draining the battery while it's supposed to be in sleep mode is evidently a problem that plagues most modern laptops. I don't know why, exactly, but I've seen some videos about it, because I noticed it on my own i9. I'm guessing that the M2 will have a similar problem, but I don't know for sure. I think it's more of a software issue. It also happens with Windows laptops.

I have the last 2019 MacBook Pro and wondering if I should upgrade to M3 Max now.

I have a big doubt. How you have Monterey on the M2 Pro? I thought the M2 Pro came starting with Ventura and forwad.. ..

I don’t know what you did with i9 MBP but my i7 MBP 16 bootup few times faster with enabled FileVault then yours with disabled FileVault.

I never understood why people think laptop is all about premiere, Photoshop and Lightroom! actually I never interested in these softwares, my field of work needs CSI (Etabs, SAP, SAFE), Staad Pro, Tekla Structures, Bentley Softwares, Autocad civil 3D and so many of them is not available in mac os. Is it possible for you to check if ARM version of windows on M2 can run CSI Etabs for example ?

hi, can you try bootcamp on mac 2019 vs m2 parallel?

What is that app up on the taskbar that monitors CPU?

The M2 Pro has made me a believer. My only complaint about the MBP M2 Pro is that the camera lacks a privacy mode and the displays are very very easy to break.

in my undersatanding, the intel one on external display flickers because it has 2 different GPUs in in and when you connect it to an external graphic card it switch its display output from intel hd graphics to AMD, and that causes that flickering. and for M2 Max it has the all in one CPU/GPU so no switching GPU thing makes it easier and faster for system to do the job

Damn😮!

that flight path on the right looks a little funny.

I just purchased an almost brand new 2019 16” MacBook Pro with the i9 and 8GB Vega 16 Chip. What GPU does your Intel MacBook Pro have?

I wanted to boot kali linix on my m1 but unfortunately i couldnt.

Can tell both laptop applications are different, should first formate both then same install software both then test will be exact result!

My 2017 mbp on a 7820hq seems to do all these things faster than that i9. Weird.

Interesting to see docker tests results with intel Mac plugged in…

There's some context to be added to the shutdown/startup time. The M1/2/3 chips are "cheating" by not actually turning off, but rather entering a deep hibernation. The intel Macs suspends the tasks to the SSD while the M1/2/3 chips suspend to memory, the reaosn they can do this and the intel can't is because of increased energy efficiency, so it is still the advantage of the M1/2/3 macs. If you want to truly turn off the M-series macs you'll need to either hold the power button in, or drain the battery completely.

I didn't have to watch any further than 1:43 once I heard him groan waiting for the the login of the 2019 machine. I've made my decision.

Your test looked somehow fun. Comparing 2019 with 2023? Booting up a relatively old, stuffed version of win 11 on intel vs a cleaner, fresh-looked one on m2. Yeah yeah, we all now m2 is fast. I just look for a fairer comparison for chip leap. Which definitely yours isn't. Need to explain more? 😄

The most epic thing is than even MacBook Air with M1 would work much faster that the fastest MBPro with an Intel chip :)

Something wrong with that I9computer. Do a fresh install

The fan on the i9 is LOUD lol

I was planning on upgrading my MB i7 to i9. After watching this video I think I should break the bank for M2

While its fair to say that the M2 2023 MBP should perform noticably faster in all tests than an otherwise 4+ year older MBP with similar specs but intel. The thing to keep in mind which he did quickly say in the Windows app opening that the 2019 machine has more apps loaded on it and of course it would. It’s a 4+ year old machine. Would this affect start up and shut down of the machine and its apps? Of course it would. Apps that start and shut down in the background affect the overall performance simple fact. I have the 2019 MBP, and I bet if he’d restored to factory spec with same apps loaded as the M2 the time differences would be a fair site closer than in these tests. Not a fair comparison in my opinion, and I love the new M2 macbooks. But I have the 2019 and its still rolling much better than his “tests" showed.

Well, I think you could boost the i9 using a previous MacOS and for Windows using bootcamp.

Absicht vom Apfel?😇

Something is clearly wrong with your Intel MacBook from the beginning. Booting up does not take that long. I have an I9 Intel MacBook Pro 16" and it boots up in seconds; I would say maybe 2 or 3 seconds slower than the Silicon version.

I had intel and I was so frustrated I switched too the M1 Max 32gb ram and just like omfg it’s so fast insanity it’s faster then I can think.

The comparison makes no sense, given that the machines are years apart. Opening / closing apps is not how performance is measured. OS plays a part, too. I have been using both the 2019s Intel MacBooks and the M2s, The M2s are better, but at the end of the day you have an OS, silicon and hardware designed to work together, which is not the case with the Intel chips.

It would have been more useful to see a render test from Premiere or After Effects not just turning it off and on.

My MBP16", maxed out i9, 32GB RAM is making me crazy. I am using it with an Elgato Thunderbolt 3 dock for a 4K + 1080p display setup, and it's constantly overheating even with 20% CPU usage. Worst buy I ever did. Hope I can sell it to get an M2 cause this thing is making me rage everyday.

fastest Adobe software starts I have ever seen...

The difference in today's price Astronomical macbook pro 2018-2019 Second hand, much cheaper than the second hand m1-2 counterparts Not to mention new ones I bought a MacBook Pro 13 2018 in Israel for 2000 shekels i7 16 512 macbook air m1 8 256 It costs NIS 3700 new here So true m1 battery time is much better And in some things faster But for my needs as a help desk who also learns Linux, that is completely enough I also installed Win10 for remote work (my workplace does not support Mac) And that is enough Battery time is good enough And the software comes up fast enough makbook air does not officially support two external screens either Need an expensive adapter And I work on 2 screens I connect one usb c to usb c the second usb c to hdmi

M2 MacBook has Ram also powerful.

Posiadam Macbook Air 2016 , 4 ram , 128 gb ssd, ekran retina 400 nits, wciaz dziala slizy jako zapasowy, mam tez Macbook Pro 2019 , 8 ram , 128 gb ssd, ekran retina 500 nits, oba chodza jak sieczkarnia wolno i mnie juz ten ekran denerwuje , wiec przesiadlem sie na iMac 27" 5k , 2020 , 8 ram , 512 gb ssd , ekran retina 500 nits. Nie wiem jakim cudem ale ekran ma 500 nits retina taki sam niby jak MBP 2019 a jednak iMac "chodzi" szybciej ,ekran jest jasniejszy i o wiele lepiej mi sie na nim "pracuje" . Jesli kupie Macbook to musi miec ekran OLED , to samo iMac ,musi miec ekran oled lub podobny , ponoc ma byc ekran Micro LED ,zamiast OLED ,prawda to 🎤⚠❓

Apple should pay for this video.