Hey everyone, I’m having a real hard time deciding which MacBook to buy. I’m a software engineer working mostly on backend stuff in my company but want to get my feet wet with App development in the apple ecosystem. The laptop will be my main home computer, so I would use it for content consumption (4K streams maybe the most hardware intensive), little projects in logic or GarageBand (not a lot of tracks, just the basic guitar players needs) and XCode for iOS stuff. Like most people here I have been waiting for the new MB Pros, but now get a feeling it’s just too much and I would spend a lot of €€ for something I do not need.
Is a M1 MBA all I need (from a cpu/gpu perspective, ignoring ports, external screen capability etc) or should I go 14“ pro base?(13 pro is not an option, touchbar is a no-go)
The backend stuff I do at work is quite cpu/ram intensive, but that is not something I would do at home and I think is not really comparable to app development. I‘m not sure how resource hungry Xcode is, so maybe someone could give me some pointers from their Xcode experience (small to medium projects, maybe a little sprite kit). I’m not someone who always has to have the latest and greatest, so if I can save 700€ getting a 16/512gb mba instead of a 14“ pro I‘m happy too (or wait for m2 MBA).
Thanks for any help.
Is a M1 MBA all I need (from a cpu/gpu perspective, ignoring ports, external screen capability etc) or should I go 14“ pro base?(13 pro is not an option, touchbar is a no-go)
The backend stuff I do at work is quite cpu/ram intensive, but that is not something I would do at home and I think is not really comparable to app development. I‘m not sure how resource hungry Xcode is, so maybe someone could give me some pointers from their Xcode experience (small to medium projects, maybe a little sprite kit). I’m not someone who always has to have the latest and greatest, so if I can save 700€ getting a 16/512gb mba instead of a 14“ pro I‘m happy too (or wait for m2 MBA).
Thanks for any help.
