Hey all,
Since early 2010s I've been buying used macs in 3-4 year cycles. My idea was to get the previous year's best machine right after they release the new ones and prices on the older ones go down a bit as people put them up for sale to get the new best thing. Right now I feel it's time to uprgade again, but am slightly confused about M-chip macs.
I started with top 2009 mac pro, switching to 2012 top MBP, then top spec 2015 iMac, now sitting on a top spec 2018 MBP that starts lacking in performance. I really like Mac Studio, but I feel I need the mobility of a laptop, so it's got to be one of the new M1 or M2 MBPs.
However when it comes to figuring out performance vs price, it's not as obvious. I do a lot of color grading/video editing/CAD/Audio and all the apps have multi-core support and are CPU and GPU-heavy. I was looking at some M2 Pro macbooks that are popping up used locally, but it seems that performance-wise they are on par with M1 Max 2021 machines (at least on paper with benchmarks), however prices on the 2021 macs are considerably lower.
I've read somewhere that some machines have issues with throttled SSDs, which is another curve ball to tackle.
Is there a consensus, which of the 2021-2023 lineup machines are best bang for your bucks and don't have any of the SSD issues?
Since early 2010s I've been buying used macs in 3-4 year cycles. My idea was to get the previous year's best machine right after they release the new ones and prices on the older ones go down a bit as people put them up for sale to get the new best thing. Right now I feel it's time to uprgade again, but am slightly confused about M-chip macs.
I started with top 2009 mac pro, switching to 2012 top MBP, then top spec 2015 iMac, now sitting on a top spec 2018 MBP that starts lacking in performance. I really like Mac Studio, but I feel I need the mobility of a laptop, so it's got to be one of the new M1 or M2 MBPs.
However when it comes to figuring out performance vs price, it's not as obvious. I do a lot of color grading/video editing/CAD/Audio and all the apps have multi-core support and are CPU and GPU-heavy. I was looking at some M2 Pro macbooks that are popping up used locally, but it seems that performance-wise they are on par with M1 Max 2021 machines (at least on paper with benchmarks), however prices on the 2021 macs are considerably lower.
I've read somewhere that some machines have issues with throttled SSDs, which is another curve ball to tackle.
Is there a consensus, which of the 2021-2023 lineup machines are best bang for your bucks and don't have any of the SSD issues?