Given the new MacBook Neo uses an Apple A18 Pro chip with 16 Neural Cores and 8GB RAM, could someone comment please on the performance of Djay Pro, particularly with regard to Neural Mix performance/quality?
The normal document (linked below) makes a distinction between iOS (Phones) versus MacOS (laptops) which use Axx and Mx chips respectively.
I own an iPhone 16 Pro Max which contains an A18 Pro chip, but it’s running iOS, not MacOS.
As the MacBook Neo “straddles” these two worlds, it would good to know just how well this new laptop will cope under load for 4 decks and Neural Mix.
Whilst the A18 Pro chips might be rated for 100% Neural Mix quality, what is the real world experience like?
I appreciate nobody will have one yet, but thought I’d ask this question for open feedback as I’m sure it’ll come up.
The initial benchmark scores show it has better single core performance than an M1, the M1 runs Djay Pro fine.
But in the end it all depends on what you’re doing, if you have 4 decks running simultaneously with neural mix operating on all of them, i expect it might push the laptop with regards to performance.
As many of the reviewers have said, if you’re wondering if there is enough power, this is probably not the product for you.
The overall performance should be more than sufficient. However, in my opinion, you should consider the lack of keyboard lighting. Especially when using it as a DJ, when you often work in low light conditions, this seems to me to be the bigger problem.
We have a Macbook Neo on pre-order and will test it extensively when available. We expect it to generally run fine including Neural Mix, but will share more details when testing is complete. Thanks!
I agree. I bought an M4 MacBook Air 15 and I think it’s the single biggest jump in performance (from an i5 MacBook Pro 13), ever in my computer owning life.
It does everything I want it to do without breaking a sweat.
I don’t really use stems, I’ve got no use for them in my DJ sets. This is 3 deck mixing in Serato with some effects and the odd sample, the laptop works flawlessly with 2 DVS signals and one internal channel running simultaneously with various software filters etc active.
Yes my old i5 MacBook Pro handled that kind of thing well and I was also doing theatre stage audio and sound effects fine with it too in Ableton Live.
It only really struggled with real time stems, well it just couldn’t do them, plus I got glitches in Ableton Live with some max4live devices and with an Access Virus Emulator.
But I got 15 years out of that laptop, so I have no complaints and I also have no complaints with my new m4 MacBook Air 15.
