Last week 1tb iPhone Pro Max, Yesterday, fully loaded 16" MacBook Pro M1 Max. My wallet is crying!
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14-Inch vs. 16-Inch MacBook Pro Buyer's Guide 2024
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Function over form, Apple needs an injection of style. No reason these can't be bigger, more powerful and still look good! Ugly spud this one. I wait for the powerful Mac mini me thinks.
I'm a doc and a geek but not an advanced video editor, but often I have lots of things open; upgraded from 2019 16 inch to the M1 Pro (not Max, I don't need the computational intensity) with 32gb and 2 tb drive. I love the new port configuration and display improvements, and with the trade in it makes sense, I think to keep up to date. As much as I can be tough on Apple at times, I do think they listened to their users on these changes. If only they would listen more on the ipad OS multi-tasking, etc.,
Same boat, essentially. Although I went with the 1TB iPhone Pro and didn't go with the Max. (I'm already kind of regretting that decision though, since I had the XS Max previously, and this phone's screen just feels small to me now.)
I didn't go all the way to 8TB of drive storage on my M1 Max Macbook Pro order though. Decided on 4TB, because that jump to 8 is really a premium on cost per gig of storage... (A lot of the high end Windows laptops are getting around that by including 2 m.2 SSD drive slots in them. Cheaper to buy a pair of 4TB SSDs for one than a single 8TB.)
Funny as time goes on I use less HD space but more RAM. I never considered the 14" as I still to this day miss my 17' MBP. I don't care how heavy or big it is. It mostly sits on my desk and use it as a monitor along with my 27" 4k display. Went for the M1 Pro Max with 64GB RAM and 1TB HD. I have been using (and LOVING) the 13" M1 with 16GB of RAM for the last several months and it is a fantastic machine but the screen is way too small for me and it lacks ports big time. Can't wait for mine to arrive!
I think we need to see sustained performance measurements.
I remember the disastrous 2017 MBP nTB which would hit the fans hard and then throttle even with 1080p YouTube videos... so a fast CPU made to perform like a 10 yr old CPU because of very poor thermal design.
I went back to a 2015 MBP with a 2014 CPU .. which plays YouTube fine at 1080p on an external display, and only sometimes hits the fans and throttling.
I remember the disastrous 2017 MBP nTB which would hit the fans hard and then throttle even with 1080p YouTube videos... so a fast CPU made to perform like a 10 yr old CPU because of very poor thermal design.
I went back to a 2015 MBP with a 2014 CPU .. which plays YouTube fine at 1080p on an external display, and only sometimes hits the fans and throttling.
even worse, their "emulation" efforts and their respective results are still pretty lousy... there so many quirks with it as of now that it's barely even usable. and to the OP before, windows 11 is still "basically" windows 10. i would be lost. without a decent hypervisor that supports the x86-platform.
Thick? Magsafe? Hdmi? Sd stick? Wtf… going back 10 years into the past… and they even took put back an old keyboard…
some heads need to roll in that company asap
some heads need to roll in that company asap
don't really have a space for a desktop. i can use this on dining table, on sofa, in bed, even on holiday? love the flexibility of the laptop. might treat myself to the 16 base....
Is your laptop in clamshell when you connect your monitors. I don’t connect two monitors but even with one and laptop open, the fans go crazy. In clamshell mode it’s fine. MS teams is a different issue altogether but I think that program needs to be written properly.
I work from home 3 days a week and at the office 2 days a week. I have a docking setup at both, and sometimes I take it on the go. So yea...75% of the time it's acting as a desktop, doesn't mean that 25% isn't really valuable to be mobile. The 2019 is plenty for what I need it for as a IT/system admin and moderate to heavy 1080p gaming which the 5300 handles just fine. Was playing Battlefield 5 on high last night no prob.
I still have a need to run applications written for Windows based x86/64-bit. 
is 16GB of RAM enough for someone who will occasionally use Parallels or other VM? Right now I have a 2014 15" Retina with 16gb RAM and its enough. I do tend to hang on to my machines for a little
Someone from work told me their M1 with Safari, Teams, and Outlook take 12GB of RAM. I usually assign 8gb to a single VM I use.
Someone from work told me their M1 with Safari, Teams, and Outlook take 12GB of RAM. I usually assign 8gb to a single VM I use.
macOS will use as much memory as it can as it's always more efficient to keep stuff in memory in case it's needed again before clearing it out for new data so the amount of memory used isn't a good indicator of how much is needed. Instead, I would monitor the memory pressure graph in Activity Monitor under all your workflows with your current machine and see if it ever hits yellow or red.is 16GB of RAM enough for someone who will occasionally use Parallels or other VM? Right now I have a 2014 15" Retina with 16gb RAM and its enough. I do tend to hang on to my machines for a little
Someone from work told me their M1 with Safari, Teams, and Outlook take 12GB of RAM. I usually assign 8gb to a single VM I use.
Never hits yellow or red for me on my 2014 rMBP 15".
But point is my coworker and I have both 16GB RAM, yet he uses more RAM (roughly ~12GB) on the same tasks minus Parallels. So I don't know if 16GB this go around will be enough when I order. But 16GB is certainly plenty now on my 2014 Intel.
This will be the last post from my macbook pro 2011. I think it should be a decent upgrade to the 14".
Considering I was suffering mostly from the GPU performance with M1 I carefully thought this through and ended up getting the 14" with the most powerful M1 Max, and settle for 32GB of ram.
Ideally I would have loved the 16" and 64 GB of ram but in my country it would have been around 900$ extra...and I already took a risky investment with how much I spent.
With regards to the 14" I'm not too mad as I'd use it 99% of the time hooked to a 4K display, and with the ram I'd have enjoyed 64GB in After Effects but for the type of work I do 32GB suffices; let's say the ram was the only actual sacrifice I had to make.
Anyway I'm still planning to get a desktop machine eventually (probably a 32" imac) and I like thinking I'll have a portable machine too.
Anyway I'm super excited for the M1 Max, and I cannot wait one minute to use it.
Ideally I would have loved the 16" and 64 GB of ram but in my country it would have been around 900$ extra...and I already took a risky investment with how much I spent.
With regards to the 14" I'm not too mad as I'd use it 99% of the time hooked to a 4K display, and with the ram I'd have enjoyed 64GB in After Effects but for the type of work I do 32GB suffices; let's say the ram was the only actual sacrifice I had to make.
Anyway I'm still planning to get a desktop machine eventually (probably a 32" imac) and I like thinking I'll have a portable machine too.
Anyway I'm super excited for the M1 Max, and I cannot wait one minute to use it.