Had ordered a Max/32GPU/64GB but ended up with a Pro/16GPU/16GB

[nepalisherpa]

Haha....well, thanks to my impatience, I have a laptop that I did not want originally. I had ordered a 16" Max with 32GPU, 64GB RAM, and 1TB SSD. ETA was well into late December. After watching so many reviews of how even the basic model was good for video/photo editing, I was having regrets of ordering something that I would never use to its full potential.

Last night, I was just browsing Apple's website after checking the status of my order and I saw that a 16" Pro with 16GPU/16GB RAM/1TB SSD was available for pickup. I decided to cancel my order right at that time and ordered the "basic" version for pickup. I just picked it up about an hour ago so we shall see if this will be enough for me. I'm also happy that I'm saving $1200+. . So, maybe an iPad Pro.

 

[jabbr]

Give it a good whirl and see if it’s good for your use case!

 

[nepalisherpa]

Give it a good whirl and see if it’s good for your use case!

Just from a quick test, I can see that this might be more than enough. I have:

Davinci playing in the background with 6 4K tracks
Capture One 21 with 18 RAW images open
Preview with 18 JPEGs open
Word open
Excel open
Chrome open with 7 tabs
Safari open with 2 tabs
Affinity Photo open with a photo
Messages open
Xcode has a project open but not doing anything
Citrix Viewer remoted to work PC

So far, memory usage is at 13.20GB with 500MB swap used. This test is very extreme and I will never have that many things open at once. Looks like this might work. Let's see how it goes for the next several days.

 

[nquinn]

Haha....well, thanks to my impatience, I have a laptop that I did not want originally. I had ordered a 16" Max with 32GPU, 64GB RAM, and 1TB SSD. ETA was well into late December. After watching so many reviews of how even the basic model was good for video/photo editing, I was having regrets of ordering something that I would never use to its full potential.

Last night, I was just browsing Apple's website after checking the status of my order and I saw that a 16" Pro with 16GPU/16GB RAM/1TB SSD was available for pickup. I decided to cancel my order right at that time and ordered the "basic" version for pickup. I just picked it up about an hour ago so we shall see if this will be enough for me. I'm also happy that I'm saving $1200+. . So, maybe an iPad Pro.

I'm thinking about doing something like this too and just saving a little more money towards my next upgrade. Currently have a 16"/24 core/32gb/1tb model that was around $3000+tax. Would save around $500 if I stay 16" or $700ish if going to 14"

 

[CalMin]

I did the same thing. Ordered a 14” M1 Max with 24 GPU cores, 32GB ram, 2 TB SSD. Then picked up the M1 Pro, 16-GPU cores, 16 GB ram, and 1 TB SSD delivered from a local store and canceled the preorder.

A couple of weeks I’m and I’ve thrown all my usual Office workflows at it and nothing phases it. Tried adding a Windows 11 VM via Parallels On top of my workflow, open several gigs of email archives, a 40GB devonthink database. Memory pressure turned yellow but nothing slowed down.

I still haven’t heard fans. Spent the savings on a new desk and AirPods max.

 

[MF878]

Another downgrade here. I initially ordered a 14” M1 Max 10 CPU/24 GPU/32GB/1TB, but cancelled it and ordered an M1 Pro 10 CPU/14 GPU/16GB/1TB instead. I typically upgrade every 4-5 years (usually CPU motivated), and the reviews/benchmarks convinced me that this spec should be good enough for that. If the worst case scenario happens and I need 32GB RAM in 3 years from now, then I spent ~25% less for a 25% shorter useful life. If I end up getting 4-5 years out of it, then my cost of ownership was lower.