After four months with the 16-inch MacBook Pro M2 Max (fully spec’d), I can honestly say it blew my mind — and I don’t say that lightly. I’m coming from a 2018 fully spec’d 15-inch Intel MacBook Pro (and a 2020 fully spec’d 27-inch iMac), and once I started shooting 4K 10-bit on the Sony FX3, the Intel machine just didn’t keep up. I was living the proxy life, and exports were so long I could literally go for a coffee and a walk in central London and come back to a finished render. In this video I break down why I chose the 16-inch model, the exact spec (12‑core CPU, 38‑core GPU, 64GB RAM, 1TB SSD), and the real-world upgrades that actually matter for filmmakers: MagSafe is back, you get HDMI 2.1, an SDXC card reader, and Thunderbolt 4 — which genuinely makes my workflow quicker (especially when I’m using SD cards in the FX3/A7IV). I also talk battery life, because being able to edit in DaVinci Resolve on battery without the laptop instantly begging for a charger has completely changed how I work. I share benchmarks plus my own export tests, and the takeaway is simple: this laptop encourages me to create because I’m not waiting around. For my photo work (Lightroom/Photoshop) it flies, and for 4K editing it finally feels like everything happens in real time.