AMD Ryzen AI Max 385
With a seperate gpu nvidia rtx5060
And there’s downclocked cores I heard, called C cores .
Seems like the 385 does not have the c cores just to validate.
Its 8 big cores 16 threads.
On paper looks pretty good for a laptop.
I’m just concerned. You seem to get all worked up over nothing.
So I ended up buying a 14” HP ZBook Ultra G1a with 128 GB of ram and replaced the 2 TB SSD with 4TB.
I absolutely love it. The thing has more than enough power for my Cubase projects. Things run smoothly with many vsts and vsits running. I can continue working on projects I started on my desktop PC (Intel core ultra 9 285k) while travelling.
It does have one downside. The fans get loud under heavy load, but since I’m using headphones when making music while travelling I don’t care about that.
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Any chance you could run the dawbench test on it?
does it exist for cubase?
It should, as far as I know. I ran an earlier version a few years back. If you don’t see it maybe it was never updated…
or run the Scan/Dom Sigals test.
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so i dl-ed this dom sigalas project file and followed the instructions.
Dropouts started with 216 Tracks of “Duplicate me”.
System Power settings on Performance, Cubase power scheme off.
Hope that helps
Is there any list of results from that test?.. that you know of?
Thanks!
I have a Ryzen Notebook and a MBP, and I use the Ryzen over the MBP 98.6% of the time. So, this is a fallacy considering I’ve had both since 2020/2021. Both of them last just as long, and perform well. The PC is just a lot more convenient because I could double the RAM and the SSD for very little, while I’d need to spend almost $3K on a new MBP to do the same. Also, if you edit video, the PCs still come with much better GPUs without having to spend absurd amounts of money.
The MBP is basically a productivity machine, these days. I use it for Apple Journal and FaceTime. Not much else. I honestly kinda regret the purchase. It was over $2K, after all, and it barely gets turned on.
People are free to believe what they want, but you don’t have to trash every thread asking about a specific topic with this kind of B.S.
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I trash every thread? I?
Probably not ‘you personally’, but 8 out of 10 threads about Windows builds turn into “get a Mac!”.
Sometimes people have racks and racks of expensive legacy gear that works perfectly with Windows, maybe some old Intel Macs, but never got Apple M/ARM drivers, and never will. Sometimes there is a need to visit old projects with old devices and/or versions of software that simply don’t work on new Macs (or if they do, it’s a pretty big PITA to get working, and if you do…don’t ever ‘upgrade’ the Mac OS from that point or it’s toast, because at some point Apple WILL strip out all legacy support, every single time). Unlike with Windows builds, you can’t even do simple boot drive swaps for different needs/scenarios or easy/instant backup. In PC world you can build a heck of a RAID setup for less than a single decent boot drive costs on the consumer and entry level enterprise Mac platforms. Sad to say, Mac isn’t always the better fit for everybody’s needs.
Sometimes people simply ‘need’ a different architecture and OS and the newer ARM setup simply is not an option for the job at hand. No drivers for endless lists of devices out there, no support for 99% of the existing code and drivers on the planet. It might be all good if everything connected to the machine is less than 2 years old, but everything else in the studio becomes a door-stop, or something that still has to be daisy chained through Windows or Linux somehow.
That is Googly’s point though, is it not?
Your previous post might have needed a “/sarcasm” tag or something.
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Nah, you don’t, no worries. 
I use exactly that AMD CPU/GPU combination (Asus ROG 2025) with Cubase 14 Pro, and it runs smooth and fast. I am also happy using an iPhone and iPads, so I am certainly no enemy of Apple gear. But as a user of both a Windows music PC and a Windows notebook, I couldn’t care less about the sometimes embarrasing attitude of some proselytising Apple Mac users.
Is it the Flow Z13?
How do you feel about the overall quality of it?
Also, does Spectralayers take advantage of the iGPU?
Yes it is the Flow Z13 (2025) with 32Gb RAM (64 would be great but even significantly more expensive). I’m very satisfied with this buy. I exchanged the original SSD (M2.2242) to one with 2TB, divided into one system partition and one music partition, and additionally it offers a MicroSD Slot with UHS-II speed, where I have put another (still quite fast) 2 TB Micro SD with enough space for all kinds of additional stuff, before even adding external storage.
Spectralayers works without problems with my allocation of 8Gb VRAM.
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Interesting. I picked up a Macbook Pro, Max, 48GB because I need something soon, but I was also looking at the 395 and specifically the Flow and the HP, either 64 or 128GB (to run larger LLMs). I would actually love to stay in Windows for a number of reasons, but it’s obviously a bit hard to justify blowing another 3k or whatever on top of what I already spent on the Macbook.
Maybe I’ll win the lottery or something…
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i was asking myself the same thing. any comparison charts somewhere?
It wasn’t even about his post specifically.
“You” is both singular and plural, and can be used specifically and generally. Every pronoun in the full sentence where he clipped the fragment used a generalized pronoun for a reason. Children with a third-grade education understand this. I don’t know why I have to explain it to adults on a forum.
The point wasn’t about him specifically, even if I was responding in the context of his post. It’s about how these threads generally turn out - not just here, but basically on all forums.
They all devolve into Mac Salesman jumping in with historical FUD to sell people onto the platform, and other people piling on to play defense. Even when OPs specifically state they’re looking for PCs, these people show up and ruin the threads because the reasonable responses are 5-10% of responses and the threads tend to quickly balloon in size (relatively speaking).