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I presently own a 16" 2013 MacBook Pro. Do you think it is worth it to get a 13 MBP right now?
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I assume you mean 15” 2013 MBP as the 16” didn’t exist until the end of 2019.
As for moving to M1, sure! You might not get any more RAM than what you already had, but the architecture is way more modern than the 2013 15” MBP, which I still have one, and it still works fine, but the M1 would just be way faster.
You do lose hyper threading, but hyper threading is essentially a 1.25X performance boost, so you’d essentially have 5 cores from before, but now with the M1, you’d have 4 high performance cores that are way better than the Haswell i7 chips from 2013 and even the 4 high efficiency cores also perform really well as well.
Plus, you’d get the unified memory (get 16GB), and significantly faster storage as well.
Otherwise, if you can wait a few months, probably hold out for a M1X based chip for the higher end 13” MBP.
As for moving to M1, sure! You might not get any more RAM than what you already had, but the architecture is way more modern than the 2013 15” MBP, which I still have one, and it still works fine, but the M1 would just be way faster.
You do lose hyper threading, but hyper threading is essentially a 1.25X performance boost, so you’d essentially have 5 cores from before, but now with the M1, you’d have 4 high performance cores that are way better than the Haswell i7 chips from 2013 and even the 4 high efficiency cores also perform really well as well.
Plus, you’d get the unified memory (get 16GB), and significantly faster storage as well.
Otherwise, if you can wait a few months, probably hold out for a M1X based chip for the higher end 13” MBP.
If you really have a 16" MBP from 2013, you're probably sitting on a goldmine!
I bought my wife an M1 MacBook Air for her birthday. I haven't used it side-by-side with my 16" MBP, but it certainly seems a speedy machine. I imagine you'll see quite an improvement if you don't lose RAM in the swap.
I bought my wife an M1 MacBook Air for her birthday. I haven't used it side-by-side with my 16" MBP, but it certainly seems a speedy machine. I imagine you'll see quite an improvement if you don't lose RAM in the swap.
Correct, my bad, its the 15". I think I will wait to see what comes out next year.
My personal opinion is that it is best to wait for the second gen of any new product, unless your current machine is unstable, too slow, in danger of dying any minute, etc.
I think we should see new, more powerful apple silicon based macs likely with a new design in the first few months of 2021.
I think we should see new, more powerful apple silicon based macs likely with a new design in the first few months of 2021.
Howdy ragermac,
I think that would be a great idea. The current M1 based systems are the "low-end" of their respective offerings, and they are still selling "higher-end" Intel based offerings for even the 13" MacBook Pro. The current M1 offerings are not intended to replace the higher end systems, and that is your target (which is implied based on your use of a 15" vices a 13" already). I expect that the higher end systems will be replaced next year, and if the "low-end" are looking this good, just think what a true "high-end" will be. Good luck!
Rich S.
