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Anyone moving from M1 air/13 to a base 14? If so why?
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Yes, I am moving. M1 was my return to Mac and have been happy with the experiment. So I'm now ready for a bigger commitment. The laptop is expensive, but so were the RTX 3080 laptops I was looking at!
Nope. These are really pro machines and since I probably won't run 8 streams of Pro Res (or even one since I don't do video at all beyond watching), my M1 Mini and Air do fine. They are probably running at 5 percent cpu even at full tilt. And for that matter, I played with FCP for a while and it worked seamlessly and fast on a full length two hour movie. So, if I got one of the new boxes, about the only thing I would get over my M1's, is bragging rights in the coffee shop.
Not at all, my M1 MBP (16GB RAM) does everything I need. When I feel that it doesn’t or struggles , that’s when I’ll change. You wouldn’t get much of a return anyway on selling your M1 now anyway.
Despite the hyperbole, there is nothing wrong with the M1 MBP.
Despite the hyperbole, there is nothing wrong with the M1 MBP.
Got a M1 13 in December having come from a 15" 2013 MBP, so I'm very tempted to go back to the larger screen real estate as I do miss those extra pixels when using things like Premiere Pro and Photoshop. Just wondering whether I should future proof myself and get the 1tb/32gb, or if that really matters these days with the way the M1 Max processes things?
I'm not sure. I have the 16/256GB m1 now. I'll need 32GB ram within a year also 256GB was to small I only have 90GB free storage left. Not an issue right now but it will later.
So I'm wondering if I should just sell my 4K 32" UltraFine + MacBook Pro M1 with my Belkin Dock and buy the 16" with 32GB / 1TB.
I'll work 50% home and 50% work, at work I do have two 24" display and home I'm wondering if 16" will fullfill my needs.
Can't decide.
Or If I'll just wait some and maybe go with 14" 32/1tb or just wait until next year I have not decided yet.....
So I'm wondering if I should just sell my 4K 32" UltraFine + MacBook Pro M1 with my Belkin Dock and buy the 16" with 32GB / 1TB.
I'll work 50% home and 50% work, at work I do have two 24" display and home I'm wondering if 16" will fullfill my needs.
Can't decide.
Or If I'll just wait some and maybe go with 14" 32/1tb or just wait until next year I have not decided yet.....
Im on the same boat
Before my mbp m1 I had a 2019 15 inch and I loved the screen size but it wasn’t as portable and the battery life was kind of bad.
I would be nice to have a 14 inch laptop but its just to expensive at 1999
maybe at 1600
My mac literally runs so fast for the common things I do. It does feel way faster the the 2019 and I think to my self
how much faster of a mac i need for browsing, chatting, videos, light emulation and light work
Before my mbp m1 I had a 2019 15 inch and I loved the screen size but it wasn’t as portable and the battery life was kind of bad.
I would be nice to have a 14 inch laptop but its just to expensive at 1999
maybe at 1600
My mac literally runs so fast for the common things I do. It does feel way faster the the 2019 and I think to my self
how much faster of a mac i need for browsing, chatting, videos, light emulation and light work
You should then keep your M1.
I get the excitement and enthusiasm over the new Pros however the crapping on the M1 is laughable and disingenuous. Your workflow will dictate what you will need.
IMHO focus on your needs/requirements and which of those your M1/16/256 Air doesn't adequately fulfill; then see if one of the new configs would better fulfill that gap, and decide if the cost to make the jump would be worth it.
i.e. - what things are you needing to do that your M1 Air doesn't do properly for you?
Me? My M1 MBP presently does everything I need it to do, and thus I'm not looking to make a change.
I’m upgrading almost entirely for the ability to have 32 GB RAM.
I am constantly running out of memory in M1 MBP and M1 Mini with 16 GB. Chrome alone will gobble up more than half that with just a couple windows and dozen or so tabs in each. Combined with a couple Excel files and a big Outlook inbox file and I’m already stretched before even attempting to open up some Adobe Creative Suite apps.
By the way, I never had this issue of the OS force-closing apps due to running out of memory on my 2015 MBP with 16 GB RAM. So maybe it’s an M1 issue.
I am constantly running out of memory in M1 MBP and M1 Mini with 16 GB. Chrome alone will gobble up more than half that with just a couple windows and dozen or so tabs in each. Combined with a couple Excel files and a big Outlook inbox file and I’m already stretched before even attempting to open up some Adobe Creative Suite apps.
By the way, I never had this issue of the OS force-closing apps due to running out of memory on my 2015 MBP with 16 GB RAM. So maybe it’s an M1 issue.
14.2 vs 13.3 is less than a 7% increase (linear).
As someone who is constantly shifting between 14" windows work laptop and M1 MBP personal system, there's no effective difference (for me) in the screen sizes.
Yes, kind of. Moving from my M1 MBA to a 14” 10 core CPU / 16 core GPU. The M1 MBA will go to my wife who unfortunately bought an intel MBA 6 months before the M1 Macs launched.
From my point of view the MBA has proven just how good the M1 processor is, and for what I do the extra CPU grunt is worth it and the GPU, but most of all the screen. I have been waiting for a 14 inch MBP since my original 14 inch MBP. It’s the perfect size. (I don’t need the desktop replacement size 16” as I have a powerful desktop with a 49” display for when I am at my desk so portability was key, and couldn’t justify to myself going over my allowed budget for the Max).
From my point of view the MBA has proven just how good the M1 processor is, and for what I do the extra CPU grunt is worth it and the GPU, but most of all the screen. I have been waiting for a 14 inch MBP since my original 14 inch MBP. It’s the perfect size. (I don’t need the desktop replacement size 16” as I have a powerful desktop with a 49” display for when I am at my desk so portability was key, and couldn’t justify to myself going over my allowed budget for the Max).
8-Core M1 has 4 Performance Cores and 4 Efficiency Cores, while 8-Core M1 Pro has 6 Performance Cores and 2 Efficiency Cores. You are basically trading off efficiency and get faster cores.
The spec Im going for is 32GB, 1TB, 10/16 and I'm getting the 16" because it is only $180USD more than the similarly specced 14". I got 7 years out of my 2014 13" because I future-proofed it with 16GB RAM instead of 8, which is why I'm doing 32GB on the new one which I expect to use for another 7-10 years. RAM is always better than a faster processor for creative tasks; within reason of course, but it's not like we're comparing a Core-2-Duo to an M1-Max.
We have six machines on ASi now:
13" MacBook Air (old design)
13" MacBook Pro (old design)
Mac mini (old design)
24" iMac (new design)
14" MacBook Pro (new design)
16" MacBook Pro (new design)
A mid/high-level Mac mini with the M1 Pro / M1 Max SoCs would clear the Mac mini lineup of Intel products, but a new design is needed...
A mid/high-level iMac with the M1 Pro / M1 Max SoCs would clear the iMac lineup of Intel products, a new design is needed here as well; but will it be 27", will it be 30", will it be 32"...?
Rumor has the current Cheesegrater 2.0 chassis sticking around, and since it is pretty new, I doubt it would get a redesign for awhile... BUT...! Apple could offer up a Space Gray variant...?!?
Rumor also has a "smaller Mac Pro", supposedly a reduced volume of the current Cheesegrater 2.0, but rumors also have it as a new Cube... I am hoping for a new Cube in Space Gray...
And then there is the iMac Pro, will it even BE a product again...? Will Apple use the larger iMac redesign for an iMac Pro, just using the larger SoC clusters within...?
And then there are the two laptop designs that were the original ASi M1 offerings, the 13" MacBook Air & 13" MacBook Pro; I would say the 13" MacBook Pro might be dropped and a newly designed M2-powered entry-level laptop will debut sometime in 2022...?