Best Laptop for Music Production 2025 🔥 M4 Max MacBook Pro 16″ vs M1 Max 💻

The MacBook Pro M4 Max is the best laptop for music production in 2025 🔥 Reid Stefan compares the M1 Max Macbook pro vs M4 Max Macbook pro to determine whether or not upgrading is worth the money. This review tests the CPU, RAM, SSD, Laptop Speakers, Built-In Mic, Webcam, battery life, and DAW performance in Ableton 12.

To test the Ableton performance on M1 Max vs M4 Max Reid Stefan opens a session with:
Buffer size of 32 Samples
80 Channels of Audio & MIDI
Serum 2
Nexus 4
Sylenth1
Kontakt 8
Omnisphere
UAD Spark Plugins
Ableton Stock Plugins
3rd Part Plugins for Mixing
Master chain with Oversampling

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0:00 Intro
0:56 SSD Storage
2:06 RAM
3:21 CPU
5:14 Retina Display
6:20 DAW Performance
8:25 DAW Export
9:44 Built-In Speaker Test
11:24 Built-In Microphone
13:05 Headphone Test
14:17 Battery Life
15:00 Video Editing
16:21 Video Export
17:11 Fan Noise Test
18:16 Webcam Quality
18:54 My Review