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M1 vs. M2 MacBook Pro: Is It Worth the Upgrade?

Just calculate how much better off you'll be if you earn 12% more money from the productivity gains of the latest-gen products. You have to be on a very low income to not benefit, and if you're in a low income you shouldn't be using premium grade Apple products anyway.
 
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sjsharksfan12 said:
Do people upgrade their computers every year anyway? When I bought my Mac, I was thinking it was going to be like a 5+ year investment. Technology always changes, so next year will be the M3 and the year after that will be the M4. Not really worth upgrading every year. The only regret I have about my Mac is I am a stock trader and the Fidelity App is atrocious on the mac. That's more of a Fidelity thing, and I would rather use Think or Swim, but TD Ameritrade denies me as a customer.
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I’m still using a 2012 13” MBP with CD drive and non retina screen. With an SSD and 16GB RAM it performs perfectly well for my needs which is 90% word processing. That the OS is stuck on Catalina is annoying, and the non retina screen isn’t nice when I know screens now are so much better, but it still works. Likely, this will be the year I change, but not because the 2012 machine is anyway incapable of doing what I need it to do.
 
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Mr. Heckles said:
The 24GB of RAM is an annoying number. It should be in 2’s: 8,16, and 32
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Kinda trolling, but in good spirit, here goes:

How do you feel about hard drives in 120, 160, 180, 250, 500 GB capacities?
What about 30, 48, 240, 480 GB SSDs?
Or, when Intel went with triple channel memory configurations on the X58 platform?

Don’t get me started on native display resolutions (especially on Apple devices):
  • iPhone 5: 1136x640
  • iPad: 2048x1536
  • 12” MacBook: 2304x1440
I get your point, but, like, you know 😉
 
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NoNig said:
Kinda trolling, but in good spirit, here goes:

How do you feel about hard drives in 120, 160, 180, 250, 500 GB capacities?
What about 30, 48, 240, 480 GB SSDs?
Or, when Intel went with triple channel memory configurations on the X58 platform?

Don’t get me started on native display resolutions (especially on Apple devices):
  • iPhone 5: 1136x640
  • iPad: 2048x1536
  • 12” MacBook: 2304x1440
I get your point, but, like, you know 😉
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And the Xbox 360 had a 3-core PowerPC CPU.
 
For those like myself who own a 2015 MBP 13, this new M2 MBP is a very compelling option that will offer a substantial upgrade in terms of performance and features. Imagine the performance jump going from a intel i5 broadwell chip to the M2!
 
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snipr125 said:
For those like myself who own a 2015 MBP 13, this new M2 MBP is a very compelling option that will offer a substantial upgrade in terms of performance and features. Imagine the performance jump going from a intel i5 broadwell chip to the M2!
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But…but…the case on the M2 13” MBP is from 2016!!! It’s so OLD!!!
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PS - I own an M1 13” MBP and I love it.
 
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HorstBockman said:
Are you then troubled and annoyed that the max. memory in a 2019 Mac Pro is 1.5 TB?
Hopefully 24 GB is tied to a number of memory channels divisible by 3, which would make the maximum configuration faster than 8 GB or 16 GB configurations.
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It’s not. It’s tied to the non-traditional chips available. You can do 4+4, 8+8, 12+12 is with this architecture.
 
dmw7 said:
I had one of those.
I swapped a ZX Spectrum 48k for a Vic-20 because the Vic-20 was physically bigger, and in mind 11 year old minds bigger was better. How wrong I was!
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My first computer was also a Commodore Vic-20 that I used only to play video games since it started acting up only a few months after it was given to me as a Christmas present.
 
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dmw7 said:
I’m still using a 2012 13” MBP with CD drive and non retina screen. With an SSD and 16GB RAM it performs perfectly well for my needs which is 90% word processing. That the OS is stuck on Catalina is annoying, and the non retina screen isn’t nice when I know screens now are so much better, but it still works. Likely, this will be the year I change, but not because the 2012 machine is anyway incapable of doing what I need it to do.
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I'm typing this comment on a 2012 non-retina 15-inch MacBook Pro. I use it for everything, from web browsing to full-HD video editing in Premiere Pro CS6, and even light 3d animation in Blender.
 
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Seanm87 said:
I don’t know why people are so shocked it’s the same design.

Apple are still selling the same designed iPad since 2013 and iPhone SE since 2014 and Apple Watch 3 since 2017. They milk the hell out of their designs.
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They used the original Mac Pro case design for 10 plus years.
 
jeffmetanna said:
I don't know if the support for the high impedance headphones itself is enough to persuade any audio professionals or just audiophiles for that matter. Most audiophiles have a dedicated DAC and an amp that connect to the reference headphones.
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The article said "professionals" not "audiophiles". Almost all audio professionals will be using Sony MDR-7506 headphones, which are 63 Ohms and sell for about $90.
 
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sjsharksfan12 said:
Do people upgrade their computers every year anyway? When I bought my Mac, I was thinking it was going to be like a 5+ year investment. Technology always changes, so next year will be the M3 and the year after that will be the M4. Not really worth upgrading every year. The only regret I have about my Mac is I am a stock trader and the Fidelity App is atrocious on the mac. That's more of a Fidelity thing, and I would rather use Think or Swim, but TD Ameritrade denies me as a customer.
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No they do not. They also do not upgrade their phones, cars, houses, or TVs every year.

And yet, every year, there's a crowd of internet scolds who insist that this year's new thing is not required because lat's years thing was perfectly good. This crowd of scolds are apparently oblivious to common sense and reality, and simply cannot understand that the people buying the new mac/phone/car/house/TV are upgrading something that may be anywhere from 2 to 80 years old.

This tells you a lot about the median person on the internet...
 
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Seems simple: If you haven't bought yet, get the M2. If you already bought the M1 and can afford the M2, get it, and donate your used one to a school or hospital. If you have the M1 and can't afford the M2, don't sweat it. The M1 is still a pretty killer system.

I wouldn't mind either one.
 
name99 said:
No they do not. They also do not upgrade their phones, cars, houses, or TVs every year.

And yet, every year, there's a crowd of internet scolds who insist that this year's new thing is not required because lat's years thing was perfectly good. This crowd of scolds are apparently oblivious to common sense and reality, and simply cannot understand that the people buying the new mac/phone/car/house/TV are upgrading something that may be anywhere from 2 to 80 years old.

This tells you a lot about the median person on the internet...
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I knew a guy that upgraded wives every year or so. He was in for the chase.

One business I had as a client briefly upgraded 'key position' people's computers. Their old systems trickled down. Worked out well. We had more clients that would swap components and try to suck as much life out of their hardware as they could. Sometimes it worked well, they saved money, other time it didn't. *shrug*

I CAN see upgrading a cell phone every year, or so. Not much else is really that important. (I hope my iPads hold out for another five years or so)
 
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I tried to back up an iPhone 8 to my 2014 13" MacBook Pro and it would not function. I think the M2 would be a good value for me. My iMac is a 27" 2020 and an M2 will be fun in a laptop.
 
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